Kevin McSherry hand painted and digital creative Illustration, Art and Storyboards

As part of next weekend's 'Towers & Tales' children's books festival at Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, several Irish artists and illustrators have been invited to show work on the theme, ' Meet the Family". 
Each artist has been given a personage who has stayed at Lismore over the centuries to depict. I was given Edward VII, and that's him above. This piece is titled: "HM Dirigble, The Curragh Wren". Acrylics on Arches Hot Pressed Watercolour paper. 25cm x 35cm. Framed behind glass.

If you want to get a look at how last year's celebrations looked, watch this video. I hope the weather is as good this year.
Once again, the castle & historic town of Lismore provide the magical and inspirational setting for a celebration of books, stories and illustration for young audiences. As well as ticketed events featuring a line-up of best-selling Irish & international writers and illustrators, there are lots of free activities for families. So c…

My good rep in Toronto Three In A Box., produces a themed promotional book every year aimed at certain segments of the market. These books are branded as 'Box Lunches' and the current one is the fourth. Anyhuff, the theme this time is 'Childhood' and the attached pic is my contribution. I never saw myself as a children's book illustrator so when I told Denis Goodbody of Adept Advertising he expressed surprise. He's right, of course. Certainly what I do engages with the child inside of the reader -even at the level of the business/financial work that I do. Furthermore, my own lovely wife consistently points out my childish behaviour. Consider that we all grew up in our pre-school years with picture-books being our chief means of getting the sense out of print. We all have these absurd self-images and it's about time we burst them. Perhaps we can meet up and burst each other's absurd self-images. Say, next Wednesday? Good. see you then.

I enjoyed this p…