BEIJING — A city in China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang has banned matches and destroyed more than 20,000 boxes of them as part of efforts to fight terror attacks, a state-run newspaper said.
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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Lucy Star – Chapter two
Chapter two
Lucinda and Lucretia
Page 10 and 11
The family that live in the house are going camping this weekend in a big forest.
Two tents are already standing on the campsite and the children, Sophia and Peter, are making their beds up, whilst Mum and Dad start cooking.
Page 11
The old matchbox came along too, has been unpacked and is now waiting to light the camping stove.
Lucy Star – Chapter One
Shadows…
The Lucky Lucifer matches story
The crazy idea to write a story about a match, or a lucifer as we say in dutch, came to me years ago.
I don’t know what sparked the idea in my head, maybe it was a drawing I made for someones birthday card with lots of brightly burning candles and a couple of smoldering burnt out matchsticks lying under the cake stand and wondering how many matches does it take to light 25, 55, 60 birthday candles and could one super match do it in one go?
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Drawing Your Own Parent – part one…
When Heske saw in ‘Drawing Your Own Child-part two’ the drawings her father Herwolt van Doornen had made of her as a child she commented “…is ‘drawing your parent’ coming up next? I gotta get in on that.”
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Drawing your own Child – Part 2
After my blog on June 15th – Drawing your own child – I was curious, from all the posted comments, if my fellow illustrators had experienced similar problems to me in drawing their own children, so I asked them:
‘Did you draw your own children when they were growing up and were your children an inspiration or daunting because you felt you just couldn’t quite capture them?’
Here are their answers – but more importantly some very beautiful drawings and artwork that my colleagues made of their kids growing up!
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