“Nonsense and Balderdash” cried Sergeant Rock Hard of Her Majesty’s Guard.. “There’s NO Such Thing as a Ghostie”.
This is from ‘There’s No Such Thing as a Ghostie’, written by Cressida Cowell and illustrated by me, way back in 2004.
A lovely thing happened the other day, I was emailed with a link to a blog Creating Misericordia and was delighted to read about how the blog creator , Katy, had made a Sergeant Rock Hard costume for her soon to be 3yr old son. The costume was superb and I was amazed to see how much detail she had picked up on. Very flattered.
So I wanted to do something special for her son. I set about trying to do him a picture of said Sergeant (-surprisingly difficult to try to capture how I painted back then) I hope he likes it.
So lovely! Gorgeous painting – lucky fella 🙂
Thank you so much for the gorgeous picture! The first thing out of his mouth this morning was ‘I want my package!’ and he insisted on wearing the bear sticker (carefully peeled off the envelope) to nursery.
I’m so glad he liked it! (and that he was proud to wear his sticker!)