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!
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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”
Make your own zine with “Electric Zine Maker”
Hi! Has been a long time of quiet! Apologies for radio silence, I was hoping to get time to put up some more creative tutorials but in between making an animation and putting together my first kids’ picture book it just hasnt happened 🙁 BUT here’s a great activity for kids and grownups alike! AContinue reading “Make your own zine with “Electric Zine Maker””
Happy Halloween!
I hope everyone’s getting their making mojo on for Halloween??!! I love this animation we made at Acorns Children’s Hospice in Selly Oak Birmingham. All conceived and made by life-limited and profoundly disabled kids and their carers. I think my favourite is the very bonkers-looking cat… Have a look and then why not make yourContinue reading “Happy Halloween!”
A Polar Bear in the Snow
I’ve never “advertised” anything on my blog before, but this new picture book by Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris is gorgeous, both thoughtful and beautiful. What must it be like to be a polar bear, and where is this polar bear going? In this book Mac and Shawn create a magical starting point, leaving usContinue reading “A Polar Bear in the Snow”
“The Girl Without a Face”
I’m starting work on a new stop motion music video – very exciting – for Max Simpson & Sam Owen, aka Two Dogs and members of Birmingham indie gods Pram. So chuffed to be asked to work for them again! Very much a noir-spooky vibe to this one, hoping to achieve lots of lush, darkContinue reading ““The Girl Without a Face””
Make Your Own Puppet Theatre
I promised a while back to put up a tutorial for making a puppet theatre like the amazing one made for “I Want My Hat Back!” for Little Angel Theatre by Sam Wilde. Then in July I was commissioned to make it by the lovely Magic Carpet Arts in Exeter 🙂 It’s a very easyContinue reading “Make Your Own Puppet Theatre”