Suddenly time is running out and I realise I have to prepare for my trip to Edinburgh next week. I’ll be telling stories and illustrating them at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. Here’s a picture of me in action in January this year… This time I’ll be celebrating Katie and the Spanish Princess, […]
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.
Fun Facts about Amazing Artists No.1
It’s well known than Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin were good friends and there even exists a painting, by Paul Gauguin, of Vincent painting his famous sunflowers. I think there’s a picture by Vincent of Paul as well… Anyway, one story I heard (I hope it’s true)that I always really liked, is this: After […]
Book 10 and beyond
Yesterday I delivered the new book to Orchard books in London. They seemed pleased and after going through all the art I discussed various publicity plans, at the Edinburgh Festival and the National Galleries in Edinburgh and London. All exciting stuff which I hope works out. Later I took my lovely editor Liz to see […]
Book 10 – almost finished!
Tomorrow I go to Orchard Books to deliver the illustrations for the new Katie book, Katie and the Waterlily Pond. It’s not been an easy book, I’ve been ill and there have been various distractions (like holidays in Cromer!). The book will not be published for a year or so, but in the meantime here […]
3 days, 3 teachers, 33 children…
“Find a shadow, find it’s corners… Shadows don’t have corners…” I hope you enjoy these pictures… They were taken yesterday at the first ever performances of “Ghost Junction” by a charity I am “Artistic Advisor” to: Rhapsode. Our aim is to bring art, music and drama into the lives of children who might not ordinarily […]
Spot the Frog!!!
At last! This illustration has driven me NUTS. Monet’s technique changed over the years and the later “Waterlily pond” paintings are much softer than his earlier pictures with their more robust brush strokes. This has taken WEEKS to complete. The hardest bit was creating an extention to the left (which you can’t see in this […]
How it all began
The things that happen to us as children have a lasting effect on us. Our early years are when we develop into the people we are as adults. And memories have always been a huge inspiration for my work. Here I am, aged five with my mischievious seven year old sister…Katie. In 1969 we spent […]
More Art in Schools
Here’s another vast painting, created in household emulsion! Inspired by a visit to the National Gallery, children in a year 3 class created this version of Bathers at Asnieres by Seurat. Using only their fingers, to suggest “pointillism”, it was dashed off in an afternoon!
Art in Schools
I don’t think I’m really a natural blogger. I’ve always wondered how people find the time. I also wonder who on earth would be interested in my ponderings. Still, here I am, for better or worse. I’m attaching a picture of a beautiful recreation of Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire. Children in Year 3 created it […]
Opera and Ballet and Cath Kidston
A new arrival came in the post yesterday, the first copy of the new Ella Bella story, based around Cinderella(displayed here against my wife’s Cath Kidston table-cloth, for full retro effect). The ballet by Prokofiev is a little different to the usual story, and little Ella Bella finds herself swept up into another magical world […]
