Looking for ideas for HALF TERM with those pesky kids? Come to the NATIONAL GALLERY in London, for FREE storytellings and up-side down illustrations. October 27th at 11.30 and 3.30 in the Sainsbury Wing Bookshop. Afterwards you can look at the wonderful paintings in the gallery and go home inspired! Click here for details:http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/families-all-ages-27-october-2012
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.
Living Art
Katie’s adventures have almost always been about the magic of art coming alive. What if it really could happen? Well at the book launch for Katie & The Starry Night in Edinburgh last week, art really did come alive…
Stars in my eyes on publication day!
Even after almost a quarter century, the thrill of seeing a book going out into the world doesn’t change. You work so hard for so long. This is the final stage and it’s a strange feeling. Especially if you are self critical, as I (and most illustrators) tend to be. What could I have done […]
Stars in my eyes…
The countdown to August is underway! On August 2nd Katie and the Starry Night is published, and I’ll be back in Edinburgh for a series of events to celebrate the latest Katie book! I was in Edinburgh recently as Ambassador to the National Galleries of Scotland Art in Schools Competition, for a special prizegiving, sponsored […]
Pop Up Velazquez
One of the most popular things at the Pop Up Picture Pavilion was this cut-out Infanta, inspired by Velazquez’s Infanta Margarita. Here a little girl has put her head into place (like a saucy-seaside-cut-out!) and transformed herself into a Spanish princess. She looks very serious. But then being a princess IS a serious matter. She […]
A Promenade around the Pop Up Picture Pavilion
Yesterday the Pop Up Picture Pavilion was unveiled at the Pop Up Festival of Stories 2012. And it was sensational. Designers Gabriella Malewska, Fabrizio Panella (and friend Marco) created a thing of rare beauty and wonder, where art really had come alive! My thanks to all these people and those who came of course, and […]
Pop Art!
Look at this amazing gallery! Wouldn’t Katie love it? These are photos of the model created by Fabrizio Panella (pictured) and Gabriella Malewska for the Pop Up Picture Pavilion – my curated space at the Pop uP Festival of Stories 2012. The Pavilion will be open from 12 – 6pm on Sunday July 1st, […]
Don’t Rain on My Parade!
Well it did rain in the end. It poured down and what should have been a jubilant day was, let’s be honest, a typical English wash out… The trains were overcrowded, stations were closed to try to cope and it was a bedraggled assortment of loyal subjects who joined in with the jubilee. As for […]
Katie & the Diamond Jubilee at Battersea Park!
Rather like Canaletto’s spectacular scene of a Royal flotilla on the Thames, this Sunday June 3rd, there will be thousands of boats once again on London’s river to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. I believe some of the old Royal Barges will be brought out of Greenwich museum (which I saw just before Christmas – […]
Katie comes to Hay!
Many years ago, when I was a student, I fell in love with a book in the art college library. I couldn’t just get a copy for myself… so I went back time and again to look at it. The book was called simply, The Bolshoi, and it was full of photographs of wonderful sets […]
