• Live interview with book and movie agent Fiona Kenshole

    On this live drawing show, I was joined by Fiona Kenshole in Portland Oregon, USA.

    She is a Literary Agent and Feature Film Scout at Transatlantic Agency and was Vice President, Development & Acquisitions at Laika Animation before – as well as previously being publisher at Hodder Children’s Books and Oxford University Press.

    Fiona is lots of fun and has a wealth of knowledge and experience in publishing and the animation business which she shares freely in this video.

  • On my live drawing show today, I show and talk about drawing the moon. 

    I’ll be using pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, so have materials to hand and follow along. 

    My young friend, Helena of https://www.youtube.com/Helena’sAstrophotography is helping me with some images and even went out to make a movie specially for me! See it here and make sure your subscribe to her channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnx6blBfsJE 

    The calendar Helena uses is https://moonphases.co.uk/moon-calendar

    If you live in the UK you can see Helena on CBBC the Dengineers programme when they built her observatory in the Garden. Meet some folk from Wigtown too! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09glkq2/the-dengineers-series-3-3-observatory-den

    Waxing moon taken by Helena’s Astrophotography
    Waning moon over Wigtown, Scotland. Taken by Helena’s Astrophotography

  • If you want to know how to write and illustrate children’s books, ask an expert – and Viv French is certainly the right person to ask!

    She has written over 300 titles and is a best selling children’s author worldwide, as well as teaching the art of illustrating picture books at the Edinburgh College of Art.

    In this live interview we chat about illustration and Viv, as a master storyteller, with many tales to tell, imparts tons of wisdom and advice.

    Check her website at https://vivianfrench.co.uk

    See you next week at 4:00 pm Uk time. We go an hour forward this weekend so check the time.