The New Yorker have just posted this video from “The Comma Queen” telling us all about where the ampersand came from.
Developed from the Latin et (“and”), the ampersand, formerly the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet, is a character with a cult following among students of typography.
Well, did you know all that?
Mrs Woolcock contacted me on Twitter. Her class follow my drawing and she asked if I could show how to draw mountains as they are just beginning a topic on mountains.
In the first video I have gone back to the great 16th century artist and printmaker, Albrecht Dürer, to see how he would draw mountains. This is quite a romantic type of scene. More about Durer here:
The second video is a little bit easier. Have fun Mrs Woolcock’s Class. Hope this helps your mountain topic.
This video shows how to draw a Robo Kat from my book series, Dark Claw, which is a sort of Star Wars epic with Cats and mice – or Kats and Muss – Muss are anything from Mice and rats and hamsters to chinchillas!
You can enjoy me reading the animated version of the story on my Storytime Channel.
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