Tag: art

  • Sacred Cows

    I arrived in Stoke earlier than I expected on Tuesday, so I went for a visit around the Stoke Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. Obviously there was a lot of Pottery on display. I came round one corner and had to laugh. It was like a corner of Tutankamun’s tomb or the Terracotta Army’s Farmyard.…

  • Drawing

    Drawing is how we explain things in pictures. It is a language we seem to be able to read and write instinctively without any formal training. As soon as a child can hold a crayon, it is mesmerised by the marks it makes. It grows up joyfully interpreting the world through drawing and colouring in.…

  • Dark Claw Drawings

    Having checked that it’s okay to post work done by year five of Whitchurch School, where I’m working on an extended writing project, I can now upload some of the drawing they did after I showed them how to draw Dark Claw. I suppose it would be interesting to find a control group and get…