Earlier this week, through the help of my good friend and fellow illustrator Jackie Morris, I was introduced to the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London. Chris Skaife is the Yeoman Warder or Beefeater in charge of the Ravens and he gave my family and fantastic tour of hidden away parts of the tower and […]
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.
Katie in London – flying the flag!
As preparations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee gather pace, Orchard Books are joining in the fun with this special Jubilee edition of Katie in London, with regal gold foil on the cover! It certainly looks patriotic… and just in time for the Olympics too. If I entered the Olympics, I wonder what my sport would […]
Katie in Spain
For many years, Katie has been published in both Spanish and Catalanian, with her name adjusted to Carlotta. Now a Spanish business company have commissioned an illustration for a business magazine, on the subject of museum visits, and how to benefit from them. And so, following their brief, I have just sent them this… see […]
What Katie Did Next!
Earlier this year I suggested that Katie and the Starry Night was to be the last book. This seems to have caused a bit of a kerfuffle. And it seems I may have to add the sentance … “for a while”. To be fair I have always said “Never say never!”. And so Katie is […]
Portrait Gallery Reopens!
After a lengthy closure, the scaffolding is down, and the spectacular Venetian-style Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh is set to reopon next week. Katie visits the gallery with Nessie in Katie in Scotland, but it was very much an imaginary view, as I’ve never been and couldn’t go during my research trips due to building work. […]
Meanwhile, moving pictures… of another kind
While Katie hibernates, I have been busy with all sorts of different projects. Some are too new to announce. I always worry about jinxing things! But the main thing on my mind has been the two children’s concerts, in Saffron Walden and Hatfield. Here are a couple of pictures of the Sinbad and Scheherazade concert […]
Happy Birthday Kate!
Well, she’ll probably strangle me for posting this, but the ORIGINAL Katie – my sister Kate – is FIFTY years old today. But she’ll always be six and a half in my imagination! Here’s a photo of our first trip to London – at the zoo – back in the 1960s. Happy faraway days. Who’d […]
Cover up
The cover is approved and here is a glimpse of how it Katie & The Starry Night will look. I’m also posting the final endpapers, created by my son (in the style of Katie of course) with help from a few friends (and his Dad!). I think they are my favourite thing in the book, […]
Katie in Scotland makes some new friends!
Here are a pair of Ella Bella fans, who travelled all the way from Glasgow to Hatfield for last year’s Ella Bella concert, and who popped up in Edinburgh in August to say hello and discover Katie at the National Gallery of Scotland. Madison and Charlotte seemed to like Katie too, thank goodness, and it […]
Star gazing…
Here it is then. Subject to approval, this is the cover of the last Katie book, scheduled to be published in August 2012. Also, you can see the endpapers created together with my son and inspired by a sketch in ink that Vincent van Gogh did, of the Starry Night composition. And next? Well I […]
