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Two illustrations done in 2005 in response to a competition set by Dutch publisher Lemniscaat. Both illustrations set in the context of a (very) loose concept of a pink elephant disappearing with a young girl’s cat. The illustrations were politely sent return, but all the same my entry was a good exercise in getting things ready, and also a welcome challenge to work in colour.
And speaking of pink, Hoegaarden is doing a rather splendid white beer with added raspberry juice (or so the label tells me). I had not seen it in the UK, but it appears to be on sale in Belgium.

The Corporate Responsibility Index is (according to the blurb) “a strategic management tool to enhance the capacity of businesses to develop, measure and communicate best practice in the field of corporate responsibility in Australia.” To depict the absence of such a tool as a ship without a rudder - without an ability to revise it’s course and merely be guided by the wind in its sails - seemed appropriate.
Plus, I’ll grab any excuse to draw rigging and sails.

I don’t know whether it’s the hot weather (not that there’s much of that around at the moment) or the memories of empty streets as half the country was in France and the other half stuck in traffic queues on their way to the beach, but summers always make me feel faintly apocalyptic. So.