Birds singing in the morning!

It's very cold and finally we have plenty of snow, a proper winter. Early this morning I heard a bird singing at five o'clock. It means that the days are getting longer and the spring is not that far away anymore. This design is inspired by the light and birdsong. I have been working on my picture book illustrations, so I felt I had to remind myself of how to use the AI again. I have a rubbish memory! So I came up with this design by using my earlier motifs and playing with the scale and colours.

Spring dance

I wish everybody a happy weekend, beautiful springtime and lots of fun and funky dance moves as shown here by Elsa and her brother (our Facebook page reached 300 likes, so I drew this little picture to celebrate!). 

Here's link to our page, all in Finnish though:

Elsa Book Series 

Dancing in the dark

November and winter are here again and I feel like a hedgehog needing to hibernate until next spring... Suddenly I seem to need two hours more sleep every day with chocolate breakfast, lunch and dinner. But dancing is always a great way to wake me up. So I promise myself that here in my new studio (finally!) I will get up and dance every time radio plays something groovy. I hope I'll get some work done in between!

Pas de deux

Whatever I draw or illustrate, somebody is dancing somewhere. I feel that today I will need to do some serious jamming and shaking my tail, as does this bird showing off its best moves. But who is it dancing with? That will be revealed later...