Kevin Waldron Illustration

25 jan 2012

finishing up some spreads for mr peek 2 this week, still a way to go. mr peek 1 has been translated into spanish & catalan by the nice people at editorial flamboyant. he will be called sr. rondón, sounds good to me!

9 jan 2012

i'll be back to talk at this year's offset

2 dec 2011

M is for mime...

my poster for the small print project, the illustrated alphabet. prints are available to buy here

28 nov 2011

still trying to finish up the "peek-ual" (thanks mathew!)

25 oct 2011

quick sketch for matt sewell's ghost of gone birds colouring book

29 sept 2011

personal piece inspired by a dream i have once a year- i am casually informed that it is compulsory to attend your old school for another 4 or so years. didn't i know about this? it's common knowledge. utter dread seizes me; the thought of having to somehow pass another irish exam! then i wake up.

8 sept 2011

some elephant characters i started for a project that didn't work out. i'll put up the finished ones at some point, they still need some tweaking

3 aug 2011

sent some monster scribbles to jon & he burgerman-ised them for me in his inimitable style

thrilled to bits to win this year's bull-bransom award. last year's winner, the lion & the mouse, by jerry pinkney is excellent.

CBI shortlist - Booktrust awards

mar 2011 - WOW, with a little help the first framed print is up for sale in the shop! will put up more as we go on finding suitable frames here & there

jan 2011 - happy new year! have been meaning to do this for a while now, posting it here will give me the incentive to actually follow it up. there will be some signed prints for sale soon

jan 2011 - great to see a bilingual copy of tiny little fly. it is also available in dutch & german & soon to be translated for japan. here is a Q&A with michael rosen for publishers weekly. oh... & here it is in french

the foldout sequence from tiny little fly, written by michael rosen

some spreads from the book, tiny little fly, we will be taking about making next week (sunday 12th sept 2010) in dun laoghaire, dublin. the pictures above are really two double page spreads beside one another. my fellow dubliner, chris haughton will also be there taking about his new book, a bit lost.

Mountains to Sea Festival 2010

little promo for tiny little fly. written by michael rosen. out 4 oct 2010

poster i finished recently for children's book ireland

some endpapers from tiny little fly that we didn't get to use.

oct 2010 - to oder from amazon click here (US) or here (UK)

oct 2010 - mr peek is now available in stores here in the US. i'm delighted to say that the renowned strand bookstore has a few copies. i should also mention that it has been translated into french (le zoo de mister peek), german (herr pipapo!), portuguese (sr. pancas!) italian (mr peek e i malintesi allo zoo) & danish (hr. prik).

oct 2009 - bedtime story

this venerable turkey character is based on a black and white photograph of my grandad, kevin waldron, on his wedding day. thankfully, he didn't mind the anthropomorphization!