The very first copy of the new KATIE book, Katie and the Waterlily Pond arrived yesterday, and as always there was a moment of trepidation as I looked through it. Would I be pleased with the printing? Would I spot some horrible typographical error? But it’s all fine: The tenth Katie book, in all it’s […]
Category: Katie
This is a post category for posts about Katie and includes posts imported from the original Katie’s Picture Show blog on Google Blogger.
Take One Picture 2010
The Take One Picture exhibition has now opened at the National Gallery in London. There’s some great work there, all based on Renoir’s The Umbrellas. I was surprised to see that Stalham Primary School in Norfolk were amongst the schools featured – that was my first school (for one term only)! I ran away on […]
Picture progress
I am very often asked whether the story or the pictures comes first with a book. Obviously the Katie books are a bit different, because I have to choose THE PICTURES before I can write any story, or do my own illustrations based on them. With Katie in Scotland, I expected the process to be […]
In search of Nessie….and Edinburgh Rock
I feel as though I have travelled from late Winter through to early Summer on my journey from Loch Ness to Letchworth. Leaves and petals seemed to unfurl before my eyes, and as I look at the abundant foliage here I am thinking of the plentiful snow still clinging to Ben Nevis. So, after a […]
SCOTLAND THE BRAVE…
I’m off Scotland to give storytellings and run a workshop at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh , and to research Katie In Scotland with a further trip to the Highlands. I am wondering what to take. Sketching is always a trial, frankly. I love to do it but I’m always disappointed with the […]
A clutch of Nessies
While I struggle a little with a story for Katie in Scotland, I thought I’d post an assortment of sketches for Nessie. These were doodled in advance of the book to promote the BIG NESSIE COMPETITION which will be launched this Easter at the National Galleries of Scotland and online at Orchard Books’ website. DETAILS […]
Katie in Cottenham
Today I had a rare and wonderful experience at a primary school, in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire. They decided to adapt Katie and the British Artists for their school play. They changed Katie to “Josie” and adjusted some of the paintings (including a Lowry instead of a Turner), but the imagination and hard work created something very […]
Pictures from an exhibition
Nothing to do with Mussorgsky for once. These are pictures Linda McClelland, the education manager at the National Gallery of Scotland, took of the Katie’s Picture Show exhibition just before it opened… I can’t wait to get to Scotland for the events and my research trip. It’s going to be quite an adventure… the trains […]
Making an exhibition of herself!
Today the exhibition opens at the National Gallery of Scotland (rather appropriately as yesterday was my birthday) and the “Katie trail” is now available to the public. Here are a few pictures of the trail… it’s free and so if you have plans to go to Edinburgh, make sure they include a visit to the […]
Monet Monet Monet
Recently I accompanied a year 3 class, from St Thomas More School in Letchworth Garden City, to the National Gallery. This has become an annual event and each visit is followed up with recreating a painting from the collection of the gallery. It’s always such fun to see the awe-struck children in the gallery and […]
