I’m really excited to be part of a new creative learning initiative in Bristol. It’s linked to the “Ministry of Stories” in London, and is part of a global model (Sydney, Brooklyn NY and San Francisco) for inspiring kids to write and tell stories. Working with professional storytellers and artists, children get to create theirContinue reading “The Inventive Inventors’ Inventory”
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“Hotel Day-Glo” – Animation Workshop at The Egg
Hello Bath-type-super-talented-animation-peeps! It’s quite hard to make an animation in a day, but you did it. As (wise) Nancy said “It’s not exactly Agatha Christie, is it?”, but then she didn’t do it all from scratch in a day!! Well done everyone, and thanks for being a lovely bunch of people to work with! Here’sContinue reading ““Hotel Day-Glo” – Animation Workshop at The Egg”
Knowle West Media Centre Summer School
I was really pleased to be offered the chance to go and work with Knowle West Media Centre during August on their Summer Programme, a really exciting project which offered animation, graffiti, photography, digital music-making, podcasting and djing to local kids who otherwise wouldn’t have access to such high-quality creative digital media activities, they wereContinue reading “Knowle West Media Centre Summer School”
“The Mean Brain”
The Mean Brain There have been a few good things going on in Small World over the summer, and this was one of them, “The Mean Brain” an animation by Bene (age 8 now, but 7 when he made it) which he made with me over a few weeks. It’s all his concept, story and making.Continue reading ““The Mean Brain””
Singing Doctors Postcards
This has been lots of fun to work on! I was asked by Welsh National Opera MAX (WNO outreach and education) to draw some illustrations for their “Singing Doctors” project. Nine singers, dressed as “doctors” of varying types will be visiting hospitals around Wrexham and singing to patients – to help their recovery! It’s aContinue reading “Singing Doctors Postcards”
Appledore 2012 – Around the World in 80 Ways!
OK, here it is, the edited version plus soundtrack and the pics I took of you all against the green screen! Apologies to Arnya though, your photo was wonky and blurred and there was only one! So sorry… Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the final animation, you were all fab to work with andContinue reading “Appledore 2012 – Around the World in 80 Ways!”
Appledore 2012
Hello Appledore animator-peeps! Here’s the unedited film we made last week in Appledore. I’ll put up the version with your pics etc in the next few days, plus some music, am still editing it in between doing other things.. Hope you all enjoyed the workshops, I had a great time. – you were all lovelyContinue reading “Appledore 2012”
Bristol Community Biennial Exhibition 2012
I was asked to submit a piece of work to show for Bristol Biennial, with the theme of ‘Storytelling’ . Here it is – a large graphite drawing based on the animation “The Library” that I’m working on. It’s on show in Hamilton House on Stokes Croft in Bristol till the end of the week.
Bunt!
I’ve recently finished painting a giant wooden piece of bunting for Drawn in Bristol’s “Bunt” show, which is being held outdoors around Brizzle’s Harbourside area 9th-17th June. It’s part of the Big Green Week here and should look really pretty when all the pieces (about 100 bunts) are hung together. This is it as aContinue reading “Bunt!”
May Illustration
I’ve had lots of illustration jobs this month, which is amazing!… One for the June music listings for the Canteen, a logo for a friend’s business and illos for Bristol City Council’s festivals flyer and website. Am also working on a big piece of wooden bunting for Drawn in Bristol’s ‘Bunt’ show as part ofContinue reading “May Illustration”
