Tag: how to use a sketchbook
Come Drawing at Wigtown Book Festival
On Saturday 27th September I’ll be giving a talk at the Wigtown Book Festival. Do come along. I’ll be talking about how you can start drawing today and how you can easily build your skills as well as giving a few hints and tips along the way. The children’s author passionately believes that drawing for…
God Has Not Left The Building
Do you take time in the day to contemplate your existence or do you put your head down and try not to think about it? Religious people would call it prayer. Non-religious people would call it time-out, mindfulness, meditation or just a waste of time. I wouldn’t call myself a religious person. Personally I have…
Where the Wild things Are – Brilliant design as well as story
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, was a hugely influential book for me. When I first encountered it in the college library in the early 1980s I was bowled over. In this book, I could see how all my various talents might come together. That was the day I realised there was a…
