![]() ![]() I needed to make many copies of each character in The Visitor and Waiting for Goliath to use in different scenes. If the photographs hadn’t worked out, the whole book would have been ruined! This was a risky way to make the book, because each time I changed the scene, the earlier version was lost. ![]() The lighting effects come through a hole at the top of the box. Colour comes gradually into the story so I painted the figures and the room for each scene then photographed it before painting it again. ![]() For The Visitor, I made a box with figures inside and photographed each scene. My first two books with Gecko Press were constructed from paper and cardboard. This trains the eye and is very relaxing! I have been sending out the little boxes through my own Instagram account. First I paint, then I draw what I can see in the splotches. Here you can see how I make my little matchboxes. I have been spending time thinking about new book projects, and I’m working on painting little matchboxes-something I’m doing simply because I enjoy it. In fact this quarantine period hasn’t changed my daily work at home, but I do have much more time, because so many events have been cancelled. First thing in the morning I always look for Agathe, our 70-year-old turtle, who lives in the garden. My work day starts much later than usual because it’s Easter vacation. On Wednesday 15th April, author and illustrator, Antje Damm, took over the Gecko Press Instagram account to give an insight into a day in her life. ![]()
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