There is a fine line between doing too little and too much with pictures but Lovelock says illustrators need to "take risks". "With art you need to let yourself go," he says. "You often end up with some happy accidents."
It is no accident that Lovelock has been nominated as a finalist for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Construction, written by fellow Aucklander Sally Sutton, has been selected as a finalist in the picture book category. It is the third book Lovelock has illustrated for Sutton's Roadworks and Demolition series.
Lovelock, who lives in the Auckland suburb of Mt Eden, has illustrated seven children's books over the last 10 years while juggling his career as a geothermal scientist.
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