Category: School & Library Visits

  • Careful Instructions – Lessons Learned

    I’ve been showing children (and adults) how to draw my characters for some time now. Some times I wonder why, because it seems so obvious to me how to draw them and everyone does such lovely drawings, I often think we could have spent the time doing some thing else. I’ve often been puzzled by…

  • Dark Claw – Whitchurch School

    I had a great time this morning with year five at Whitchurch Primary School near Ross on Wye. I’ll be working with them over the next few weeks. I’ve decided to make Dark Claw available under the creative commons. We are going to do some extended work writing, illustrating and possibly animating stories based on…

  • Tettenhall College

    I went to visit the lower school at Tettenhall College near Wolverhampton, yesterday. I gave myself a lot of time to get there but, as there was the first fog of the year, the roads were terrible. I came to a standstill on the M5 following and earlier crash. It was slow on the way…