A cover design for a real magic book is a challenge. Because a magic book is not just about the words inside, but a magic book is a magical *object* in its own right - a tool for magic, an energy generater, an imprinter and also an MEMEM, to be used in actual magic.

So apart from the challenge of, "Does it look right?" this kind of structural design also needs to feel right, and "magic right" for the want of a better word.

Nothing says "I love you!" quite like a bespoke library press featuring my favourite design, Dragon Rising.

Arrived today, I'm very pleased with it indeed :-)

Two Dragons painting for a wedding gift. The 2 dragons form a heart.

There is also a poem on the back.

Sometimes I find geometrical mandala type designs very soothing.

And what could be more soothing than the magical energy flow in a pyramid?

Asked to create an image to represent the human energy body, I thought that's a challenge.

You have to be very careful when you're illustrating things that cannot be seen; you are making a visual metaphor and if that's wrong, people can get the wrong end of the stick so easily ...

Do you remember the mysterious black stones from 2001 A Space Odyssey?

Whilst doing some illustrations for http://genius23.com they came to mind ... :-)

Sometimes, artists just want to have fun.

Whilst doing work on the transfer of my magic site, I came across this picture for the front cover of the soul pilots book.

This was really one of those things. It is challenging to make things simple, childish, childlike and have the guts to stay with that. The Soul Pilot is a really childish, simple line drawing and yet it is perhaps the only one of all the works of art I've done that has the power to move me to tears when I tune into it.

Lucky Hans, or Hans Im Glück as the Germans say, is an archetype that relates to the Fool in the Tarot card. 

Lucky Hans strides out with a bundle on his stick, to find his fortune, make his luck, free from all worry, fear and responsibility, enjoying life to the full.

I was looking for the very iconic image of Lucky Hans this morning and couldn't find anything I liked so I decided to make my own Hans im Glück picture instead.

A new website, needs a new logo - and unlike so many other people, I'm not afraid of the obvious.

There are times and places where the obvious is exactly what the witch doctor ordered, so there can be communication, understanding, information transmission.

In this case, we have a website called I SAW HAT DOT COM. And the logo is an eye - a big eye, at that.

The Golden Voyager - what can I say?

Step aboard the ship of dreams and follow your stars ...