The first half of Ghost of Shandon, pages 1-32, were printed on Monday February 20th for proof reading and colour management. The important design elements such as bleed and gutter space all have to be carefully considered in the printing of a 64 page book like this. The colour management is also vitally important because the artwork on a Mac screen may not be exactly the same in printed form. My target for having the entire Ghost of Shandon completed is May 19th. A couple of weeks will then be given to fine tuning and post production before the book is finally published in the Summer.

Id also like to take this chance to wish the Ghost of Shandon book publishers, Onstream Publishing the best of luck at this years World Culinary Book Awards in Paris this March for their book; Our Daily Bread.

Im very pleased to announce that I have now become a member of the contemporary Irish art website; Art for Art's Sake. I would like to thank the curator of the website and creative mind behind the very worthwhile initiative Jennette Donnelly for inviting me on board. My artist's profile on the website can be viewed by following this link-

http://www.artforartsake.org/alan-corbett.html

A selection of my illustrated greetings cards are also available through the Art for Art's Sake online shop.

There is a now a host of new stock of Ghost of Shandon greetings cards available in the Gift Shop of the Crawford Art Gallery in Emmet Place, Cork City. The new stock of greetings cards include illustrations of South Gate Bridge, Peter's Lane, Skiddy's Alms House, Anne Bonny and Nano Nagle. The greetings cards are priced at 2.40 Euro. Id like to thank Peter Murray for helping me with making my greetings cards available in the Crawford Art Gallery.