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One from a series of 16 drawings showing everyday life happening underwater. Commissioned by The Nightingale Project in 2009 for an adults mental health ward. Quentin Blake's original drawings are in black & white (an ink outline with grey watercolour wash) which was digitally altered at printing to add colour.
Quentin Blake, best known for his work with Roald Dahl began another equally important collaboration several years before. Joan Aiken, the author of the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series, first tea…
His illustrations endeared him to millions of Roald Dahl fans and made him rich. Yet Quentin Blake insists he has no special affinity with children. So does that explain why, at 80, he’s started drawing female nudes?
Quentin Blake has created 39 illustrations for a new edition of Russell Hoban’s 1980 science fiction novel _Riddley Walker_, and contributed an essay named _Draw is an Intersting Word_, an excerpt of which you can read below.
December: ‘This, as you know is the month when two good things happen. The term ends and Christmas comes.’ In the last year of his life Roald Dahl wrote a diary of the changing seasons …
