7 day countdown

 With just 7 days to go to launch day I thought that I would write a simple post about my favorite sketch from each of the Pictorial Guides as featured in The Wainwrights in Colour Book, starting today with Book One, The Eastern Fells. These are not going to be…

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8 day countdown

Scafell Pike prints

 Now things are getting exciting. With just eight days to go until the official launch evening you probably imagine that I am sitting at home with my feet up, chilling before the big event. Not a bit of it. There is still lots of work to do and over the…

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The final touches

The Wainwrights in Colour Book

 Another of my short films to show the progress of the production of The Wainwrights in Colour Book. On Friday last week I re-visited Elanders perhaps for the last time (for this book anyway) to approve of the printing of the dustjacket for the book. Over the past week or…

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The countdown continues

Well, not long now, exactly two weeks in fact, two weeks until the launch day for The Wainwrights in Colour Book. It has been mentioned recently that I must be feeling elated now with things finally coming together and actually this isn’t the case. The fact that I am writing…

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Meet Colin

“Who is Colin?” I hear you ask. Well I met Colin for the first time on Wednesday. He works down in Dorking in Surrey in a book binding factory and for the next week or two he has his work cut out. Colin’s task is to case each and every…

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