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New project starting click on link for more information. Citizen Scientific Botanical Illustrator Bellarine (CSBIB) – FernArtz

I hope I don’t have to wait toooo long before they get back to me. I applied to apply on 14/5/2026. There was no record, so I have applied again 27/5/2026 😮 at The Guinness Book of Records.

I created this artwork in 2014 however it had a spelling mistake, now fixed 2026. Reflecting upon equality advocacy is a constant.

The Longest Book in the World – Geelong has achieved 600+ metres by one thousand authors and illustrators contributing. It is now the longest eco-friendly concertina book in the world. The front and back pages yet to complete I wonder how long it will be then? It is anticipated that this will be achieved by end of March/April 2026.

the to do list. You now all those bits you sometimes flick past in a book however they are essential. Such as: The leaves – those pages of design pattern or blank pages
Title – bit essential, requires two pages at least for this book
more artwork
Title Page – now the full title
More pages: the visual description of the 58 suburbs in Greater Geelong
Imprint: about what the book is
more artwork
Copyrights: all that legal stuff
more artwork
Disclaimer: more legal bits
more artwork
About the book
Dedication and thankyous
Endoresments
About the artist
Contents: oh my that is quite lengthy

Hope to give you vaguely regular updates.

It was a pleasure to be asked to create a book cover. The process started last year. One version is completed. It will be interesting to see the final version.

A dear friend and creative died suddenly, we couldn’t make it to the wake as it involved driving in above 40 degree heat for hours.

While huddling from the heat wave and thinking of the most salient parts of our friend I drew and drew all day and into days like a wild thing.

It was such a joy to have the quiet holiday time to draw. I love digital drawing, a very immersive endeavour. The longest book project has kept me at away.

When the drawings looked finished, I popped into a Camera and Print shop at Ocean Grove Shopping centre on the off chance they may have the capacity for digital print on German cotton rag 300gsm. They did/ do. Oh, what a feeling.

The service was fantastic. A short turnaround even during the warm tourist months; above all the colour was exactly how it was when drawing in my computer. It’s like magic still after 26 years of digital drawing.

Links to my now fabulous printer: Camera and Photo and https://www.facebook.com/OceanGroveCameraPhoto/

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