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Picture Book Brewing

There’s a picture book brewing, the sketchbooks are filling up, the jotted down ideas are starting to take shape into page layouts. But where to start, what to leave out… to tell the whole story, or zoom in on one event or theme… 

The story is unfolding, the journey has begun.

The work in progress involves coaxing a dog out of a pencil, a pencil that has been trained to draw cats and horses.
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