Tag: Pandora

  • Pandora – the perfect picture book for Brexit Times

    Listening to the news just now, about MPs being jostled and abused while trying to get into Parliament, makes me realise just what a Pandora’s Box the referendum turned out to be. The referendum was supposed to be advisory, just to find out what the country wanted, assuming it would return a good majority to…

  • Is Julian Assange the New Pandora?

    A strange thing happened when I successfully launched my picture book, Pandora, on Kickstarter  this year. Kickstarter is a crowd-funding site, where people can pledge to support a project to allow the creator time and funds to complete it. Flushed with success, I contacted all the people in the Cherished Supporters tier, asking them for…

  • How to Draw & Paint the Olive Tree From Pandora

    This video shows you how I drew and painted in watercolour the olive tree that appears a fe times in my recent children’s picture book, Pandora. A longish video with a lot of chat about drawing, painting, illustration and making picture books. The tree is a recurring theme in the book. I wanted something to…