Tag: art

  • Colouring-In Worksheets

    We didn’t have photocopies to colour-in when I was a lad. The teacher would draw diagrams on the blackboard and we would copy them or we would trace maps from books and draw them in or exercise books. Some smart kids had plastic templates in the shape of Great Britain and several other useful countries.…

  • 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…