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How to Draw the Moon – Live

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
How to make children’s books – live chat with Vivian French

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.
How to draw Castles – Live show

This show is all about drawing castles including more talk about light and shadow, following on from yesterday’s show. See it here: https://youtu.be/4wYIcI8agTw I’ll be using pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, so have materials to hand and follow along. Use #shoobeedoodle to share on Twitter or instagram and I may show your work. my name for both is @shoorayner

How to Draw the Moon – Live

How to make children’s books – live chat with Vivian French

How to draw Castles – Live show