Uncategorized – Page 2

Roll up, roll up for the Amazing Squirrel Circus animation workshop!

My next kids workshop will be a 2D stop motion animation workshop about a circus featuring the exploits of some very extraordinary squirrels! Suitable for ages 5-12, it’s on 7 April from 10.30-12.30pm. You can book through Teignmouth Pavilions . Come along, it’ll be lots of fun! And here’s a little squirrel in my garden!Continue reading “Roll up, roll up for the Amazing Squirrel Circus animation workshop!”

Sensory pictures for spring

Spring is taking a while to get to Devon this year, so to brighten up the day we made some colourful, sensory spring pictures with bees and spring flowers. I’ve been working for a few months with a small group of adults with very different abilities at a local care home. They really enjoyed creatingContinue reading “Sensory pictures for spring”

“Fantastical Forests” Illustration Workshop

Venue: Teignmouth Pavilions Tuesday 18 February 2025 10.30-12.30pm Who lives in the Fantastical Forest? What strange and extraordinary creatures live in its trees and lakes? What magical plants grow there? Come and paint, draw, print and collage your own fantastical forest illustration full of magical creatures and plants. We’ll be using a wide variety ofContinue reading ““Fantastical Forests” Illustration Workshop”

The Owl and the Pussycat workshop

My next workshop will be at Teignmouth Pavilions Theatre on 12th February 10.30am-12.30pm. We’ll be reading the poem and finding out a bit about its author, the artist and writer Edward Lear, and learning a bit about “nonsense verse” too. Come and make, colour and decorate your own model of Edward Lear’s characters The Owl andContinue reading “The Owl and the Pussycat workshop”

make your own santa shadow puppet show!

Here’s a lovely simple activity to download, perfect for keeping you, and your friends and family entertained for long dark nights. Learn how to make your own shadow Santa puppet and set up a shadow “screen” to perform on.

Comics Workshop at Gnash Comics!

I’m running a Comics Workshop at the brilliant Gnash Comics in Ashburton on Monday 24 October. Come along and create your own spooky Halloween character to star in your own comic story! Click here to book your place!

Animation at Beacon heath

Back to one of my favourite venues this month 🙂 Here’s what we got up to this time! Thank you to Shawn Harris and Mac Barnett for the uncopyrighted background music! The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza is available from all good book shops now!!!

finally we have proof: Drawing and creativity aid literacy!

I mean, not that people who work in arts education needed to be told, but this really will help in the fight to develop arts teaching in schools. Details in a report by the CLPE here.

Beacon Heath Animation Workshops

Hi guys, here are your brilliant animations!! It was lovely to meet you all, and everyone did brilliantly. Hope to see you there again soon 🙂

The Girl Without A Face

Very pleased to share my second animated music video here! I was commissioned by Moths of the Moon (a side project of Bimingham-based band Pram) to make a stop motion animation to accompany a track on their recently released EP “Another Place” (Ondes Positives Recordings). It’s a kind of dark, but not too dark, Pogles-esqueContinue reading “The Girl Without A Face”