Today’s featured print is the ‘Sweet Moon’ print — a reimagining of the classic man-in-the-moon face, in a dark garden of morning glories and butterflies. This piece was originally created as the subscription postcard for my Patrons, and remains one of my favourite postcards created to date (but wait ‘til you see what I’ve come up with for May…).

The moon has long been a feature in my work, but the anthropomorphised version started to emerge around when my son was born, perhaps inspired by the storybook and fairytale images that started to seem a bit more appropriate in my world. Like eyes and hands, the moon is a symbol that fascinates and resonates strongly with most people, and I love exploring its representation because of that.

You can purchase the ‘Sweet Moon’ print here for a short time only.

If you want to learn more about my Patreon monthly postcard bailout, check it out here…

For the first time in what may be years, I finally have new prints in my online store! These will be available on a timed release – for one week only – which allows me to offer some different printing styles to what I usually do.

So, everyday for this week, I wanted to spotlight a different print or print set that is in the online store, just to share a bit about what I’ve been working on and what I’ve brought out in this release!

Today, it’s the ‘Subtropical Summer’ print, available here.

This artwork was originally created for my Patrons; for my top-tier patrons, I release a flash-style illustration page as a digital download that they can print and hang in their homes, and I also provide it as an outline-only artwork that they are welcome to colour in. I do this every two months. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, you can check out my Patreon here…

The Subtropical Summer sheet was made in Dec/Jan of 20/21, and depicts a lot of the creatures and feelings that typify summer in my homelands. It features a barn owl, who I glimpsed a few times over the season, a bandy bandy snake that seemed to keep appearing to my sister and friends, a noisy cicada, big fluffy storm clouds, and of course, just a beautiful decorative western saddle for good measure.

I love making collections of illustrations that document a point in time, and that’s what this page is all about!