gouache

No computer, I bought myself a fantastic load of gouache, this is going to be a very colourful book cover. And I will do all the illustrations on beautiful Canadian maple, we went all the way to Markham yesterday to get it. Three hours in crazy traffic. The publisher sent me scans of an old Fables Newspaper book, in which the images are photographs of the puppets on the set. And reading the text my spirits went up and up and up! This beautiful over the top archaic and ornate language, it's just to die for. But then I discovered another attachment, the new text... Watered down, and weeded of spicy lines like "Me rug op!" (approximately "Up yours!") I know, the story is from roundabout 1970. Back the we could put many things in kid's books that are considered inappropriate now. Such a shame.