Yes Tomorrow!!!

So – if you are looking for something to do Tomorrow in Port Melbourne, come to Readings.

Saturday 21 August 2010

at 2:30pm

at Reading Port Melbourne – 253 Bay St, Port Melbourne, Victoria, 3207

It should be a gorgeous day and I will be so sorry not to be there.

And here’s the day itself! Looks like there was a wonderful crowd – face painting too Congratulations Kerryn!

Have a look at Kerryn’s website and blog for more signings and events. Maybe she’ll be in your area?

]]> http://www.elisehurst.com/journal/2010/08/new-book-and-a-launch-to-send-it-into-the-world/feed/ 3 http://www.elisehurst.com/journal/2010/02/behind-me-before-me/ http://www.elisehurst.com/journal/2010/02/behind-me-before-me/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:23:07 +0000 elise http://www.elisehurst.com/journal/?p=1358 I’ve been burning the midnight oil this past month, finishing off the last of my normal book jobs. We’ve had the oh-so-cute picture book My Boots in Season drawn, painted, fonted and handed in. And then yesterday I rode my bike into the city to hand in Sarindi’s Dragon Kite. What a job that was! Over 70 pencil illustrations to go with this absolutely wonderful children’s novel. I sincerely hope that this book gets some attention as it is a real BOOK. It is set in Indonesia and tells the story of little Sarindi and the events that surround his birthday. It is beautiful writing by Janine Fraser – simple and strong and a hell of a story… an earthquake strikes Sarindi’s homeland and changes everyone’s lives. I’ll let you know when it’s out (published by Harper Collins). In the meantime there are the first two books in the series to enjoy – Sarindi and the Lucky Bird & Sarindi and the Lucky Buddha.

And next??

I get to focus! There’s painting for my exhibition at the end of May, working on my novel at uni and working on the epic graphic novel The Protector. For me – that’s a new experience. Long term projects only and no scattering my head in a thousand different directions each week. How strange.

]]> http://www.elisehurst.com/journal/2010/02/behind-me-before-me/feed/ 4 http://www.elisehurst.com/journal/2010/02/boots-summer-and-a-market/ http://www.elisehurst.com/journal/2010/02/boots-summer-and-a-market/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:51:31 +0000 elise http://www.elisehurst.com/journal/?p=1290 Well if you’re in Melbourne you’ve suffered through another hot and sticky week but all is mended this weekend. The weather is gentle, the skies clear and there’s a market on tomorrow at the Convent, if you feel so inclined.

I’ve had a big week of work up in my hot studio. On Thursday I created a font for the first time. I hope it works. And, joy and rapture, I finished a picture book. It’s a sweet book about a family and their love for wearing their gumboots all through the seasons of the year. Or perhaps a coded treatise on post-sandalian hedonism… but probably not. It’s called “My Boots In Season” written by Kerryn Pascoe and will be published by Windy Hollow Books later this year. I thought it was done so many times over but I kept finding little things I wanted to fix – like looking at one of my characters and suddenly finding I’d created a mini-he. He was only two-thirds the size he was supposed to be! This is why it is good to have a little time to look back over a book before handing it in. It’s amazing the things I can not notice until all the pages are before me and I can compare heights, clothes, hair lengths, colours…

I’ve been using the light box too and so have been completely ringed by things – sitting in a nest of tables, tea trolleys spilling over with roughs and reference, A3 sheets, watercolour pans, inkpots, and pots of pens and brushes. And in the hot room, with an old rattly fan struggling to move the air about and making the papers flap and dance… from above it would have seemed that a strangely artistic twister was slowly devouring the room.

But now the book is done, and I am slowly allowing everything to sidle back into their right places. And I can move again.

I can’t wait to get out to the market and do some big painting on Sunday.

My first mission is to spread knowledge about writing and illustrating picture books on Saturday. If there’s anything you want to know about how to get into the game or well, anything really, you can borrow me. It’s called the Living Library and I’ll be a very helpful book.