With the Children’s Concert with the de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra over, I can now begin to relax into my next book, Ella Bella Ballerina and Swan Lake. The intense rehearsals, the nerves, the filthy pit of a studio are all gone. My floors are washed, the CD of music is replaced and it’s time to […]
Category: Katie
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Spooky Tunes concert sketches!
As November 8th draws closer I am shut away frantically trying every bizarre technique imaginable as I try to find the best way to create paintings that illustrate the musical stories in this concert in the shortest possible time. At the moment I am favouring household emulsion paint but I’ve been trying oil pastels with […]
Katie colouring-in sheets
Orchard books have very kindly produced these colouring in sheets, based on Katie and the British Artists. If you right click on them they can be saved onto your computer and can then be printed off for you to give to any children who are feeling artistic (or even to those who are not!)
How it all began – part two
Although it was glaringly obvious to most people that I was destined to be an illustrator, as a teenager I still imagined I would be a Great Painter, creating magnificent canvasses and starving in a garret. I do still miss those days; I would go off on my bicycle, across Blundeston Marshes, painting in a […]
Spooky Tunes: A children’s classical concert with music, art and stories
For the last two years I have been lucky enough to present children’s concerts with the de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra in Hatfield. Maureen Irving of the St Albans Children’s Book Group was the innovative organiser of this opportunity. She had seen me tell stories and illustrate them, and as many of my tales link to […]
Pirates at the National Gallery!
It’s very exciting when various strands come together and story ideas tie up. When I was asked to do a workshop at the National Gallery with Katie and the British Artists as the focus, I tried to think of stories I had that linked to The Fighting Temeraire, stories I could tell from memory. Nothing […]
Take One Picture – take one school
Welcome to Le Theatre de Renoir! This wonderful giant puppet theatre was created last week at Samuel Lucas JMI school in Hitchin. Every year, the National Gallery in London choose one painting for schools to reinterpret. The best work will be exhibited at the gallery in a special exhibition called Take One Picture. This year […]
FREE Katie event at the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London.
No sooner have I returned from the National Galleries in Edinburgh than I have to begin preparing for a big event at the National Gallery in London. The details are in the pictures, and as you will see it is a FREE event open to children of all ages, taking place on September 20th. It […]
Katie at the Scottish Royal Academy
The sun shone and the showers were few in Edinburgh this weekend. It was wonderful to be back in this beautiful city, and in particular to meet my friends at the National Galleries on The Mound, Linda from the education department and Colin the book buyer. It was also a thrill to see a life […]
Fun Facts about Amazing Artists No. 2
Joseph Mallard William Turner has always been a particular favourite of mine, perhaps because his magnificent painting Rain Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway was in one of my books on railways that I loved as a child. Turner was quite an adventurous painter, in every sense. The way he painted was experimental and […]
