…but fruit flies like a banana! It’s already nearly Christmas! And sorry for the heading but I love this pun! It has been an age since I last posted – and that’s because I’ve been very busy, which is good! 🙂 So, a flurry of posts will be incoming shortly, ranging from an inspirational PictureContinue reading “Time Flies Like an Arrow…”
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Lilo & Stitch Animation Workshop – Surf’s Up!
A busy, fun session at Teignmouth Pavilions last Wednesday with a group of super-creative and focused children making their own spin on the Lilo and Stitch film as a stop-motion animation. Here’s what they produced – in two hours!
Virtual Recipe Book for Gaza
I’m taking part in an online project called “Virtual Hug for Gaza”. It’s organised by a wonderful illustrator called Yulia Gwylim, and seeks to raise funds for locally-based, Palestinian-run charities providing food and healthcare in Gaza. Each contributor offers an illustrated favourite recipe to the online zine – I’m really looking forward to see whatContinue reading “Virtual Recipe Book for Gaza”
How to Train your Dragon Animations – Teignmouth Pavilions
Here are the animations everyone made at last Wednesday’s workshop. Thanks so much for coming, everyone, you all did brilliantly!
“Shoe People”
I’ve joined Orange Beak Studio’s Picture Book Club 🙂 There are different options that you can subscribe to (it’s a Patreon-thing) so for about £5 per month I get these great prompts for making illustrations. Last month we were given lots of different types of shoes and asked to develop characters from their footwear. ThereContinue reading ““Shoe People””
The Amazing Squirrel Circus!
So here’s the animation we made at the recent Small World workshop in Teignmouth. Such a lovely bunch of children, mums and grandparents, all full of brilliant ideas and creativity! Well done, everyone 🙂
Fantastical Forests Art Workshop
Some beautiful, magical artworks were made at the “Fantastical Forests” workshop I ran at half term. So good to see all the children so busy and engaged, imagining and creating their own fantastical forest worlds.
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”
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.
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