My friend Barry is writing a book about his recent experience of learning to use a wheelchair and the wider impact this has had on his life. He’s kindly asked me to illustrate the reflections and anecdotes; some are positive, some not, and each illustration has a colour to match the mood of the piece. Here’s the latest batch, mostly of Barry out and about in Bath. After recent excursions into brush-pens, pencils and dip-pens it’s interesting revisiting my old sketching technique of fountain-pen line, Lexington grey ink-wash shadows, and water-colour; switching between media seems to be a good way to keep things fresh!
The rest of the sketches so far…
Mostly drawing 
These are great, I particularly love the one where Barry is looking up on the bookshelf; really effective use of colour. Any date on the book release yet?
Sometime next year, Barry’s got some more to write and I’ve got about 7 illustration to sketch…
The picture of Barry looking up at the shelf is the one that stood out for me too. A moving image.
Thanks, I sketched it in an accomodating tea shop, they even supplied free tea!