Month: September 2013

Unwrapped: Illustration No 2

          The second illustration, again with a comic-book feel, and again with lots of movement. This one by Alicia Vogel. I like Kata here: she’s got the right look to her, and the immensity of the minotaur is great too. Of course, there’s no exact scene in the novel which this […]

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Unwrapped Sky, Illustration One:

My publishers, Tor, not to long ago ran an illustrators Masterclass at Amherst University. The students were given my book, Unwrapped Sky, as one of their assignments. Here’s the discription the students were given: Rjurik Davidson’s Unwrapped Sky, which will be published by Tor Books in the upcoming year, was a chance for the students to work […]

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Exit Through the Gift Shop: Art and PR

  When B was here, he recommended we watch Banksy’s film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, a fascinating documentary about a man who has set out to make a documentary about Banksy. It traces the rise of Thierry (Terry as he is called) from street-artist side-kick to artist himself. At first, the street-artists who Terry meets […]

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The Arrival of Mr B

B arrived for a 48 hour visit. We picked him up in Tampere, walked through the city, sat by the river, talked. But the real enjoyment came the following day when we visited the Zoo. A Finnish zoo is an exotic affair for an Australian: wolverines, bears, wolves, the most magnificent owls, a wondrous little […]

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Ghostly Lake

  Sometimes Finland offers glimpses of the most spectacular beauty. On this morning, a ghostly fog had descended over the city, and the lake looked like something from a gothic novel. One almost expected a ship to come creaking over the water, its sails tattered and ruined, its crew mysteriously gone. Then we would know […]

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