My text rework is still going OK, so I feel I have earned the time to scan in some more of my train sketches and talk to you properly about the conference. 
As well as the lovely Tim Hopgood, I also met Sarah McIntyre, whose illustrated characters are hilarious (and whose glasses I am SO planning to steal...).Sarah took amazing, picture-book style notes throughout the conference. You can see more of them on her blog but here's just one of the sheets she did at Tim's talk:
She also sketched her own take on my conference space chicken:
In the conference bookshop, I discovered a new, favourite picture book, by Jason Chapman (sadly, no relation), called Stan and Mabel, which manages to combine beautiful, painterly backgrounds with great, cartoon animals characters. It also has the funniest endpapers I've seen in ages - go and have a look!
By the way: if you're looking for charity Christmas cards, Stan and Mabel star in their own range in aid of Battersea Dog's Home.
I met Jason in person at the celebration party on Saturday night, so was able to congratulate him. It was a rather classy affair, with a string quartet, free champers and colour-coordinated balloons everywhere.
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I met Jason in person at the celebration party on Saturday night, so was able to congratulate him. It was a rather classy affair, with a string quartet, free champers and colour-coordinated balloons everywhere.
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By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 7/14/2009
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It was a great conference and you were a great keynote! In fact, one of the best!
Wow - thank you Candy: praise indeed! I'm so pleased.
Hi Lynne, thank you for the big fat Stanley and Mabel mention and links on your lovely blog. It was really lovely to meet you at the Winchester party - I'm a BIG admirer of your work so it was a real thrill!
Our shared surname - someone at the party mentioned that a few people thought we were married but had had an argument because we weren't spending the evening hand in hand!
Only wish I'd been there for your talk - sounds inspiring.
LOL! That's brilliant, wish I'd known - we could have played it up...
Terrific drawings - you make it look so easy Lynne!