I’m working on a board book and picture book at the same time. The picture book is a sequel to my previous book “A New House For Mouse”.  I want the new book to be different, but at the same time it needs to have some similarity with the previous book too. Tricky. I do enjoy a challenge.

Here is the “New Mouse”.  I’m trying to loosen up the style a bit. Since I use collage in my book I can draw each image a few times. It doesn’t bother me to draw it, but cutting out all the fingers and tails and details can be tiring.

Looking at the mice here, it seems that she is not very happy, but she is. At the end she is.This is not the end.

I also drew some moles. I like drawing moles.

I keep all the moles in a see through container. It reminds me of when I saw a jar of pickled moles in a museum. I just googled it, but the image of poor moles inside the jar is so gruesome, that I can’t put it in the blog. Instead I’m offering my jar of moles.

In the book is also a Rabbit.

Just like this one.

When I’m working, I also listen to the radio. This week for some reason a few people mentioned a gorilla and how you should never look at a gorilla’s eyes, since it makes them mad. Here is a  picture from my little sketchbook. It’s a sketch of what you shouldn’t do.

Looking into the gorilla’s eyes.