Tag: sketchbook
Live Sketching Waterlilies in watercolour
Join me as I do a quick sketch of waterlilies on, what I call, the lost pond. We’ve found it now so it isn’t lost anymore! Water lily leaves are basically circular so, to draw them from a side view, they need to be ellipses but all set on the same plane. I didn’t have…
The Great Malarkey Festival – Hull 2017
I can’t believe a week has gone by since The Great Malarkey Children’s Festival in Hull. I got back Sunday night and had to pile straight into a major rewrite of a story on Monday and Tuesday before heading off to London on Wednesday for the Fabulous Harper Collins 200th Birthday Party at the Victoria…
Day one of the Great Malarkey Festival in Hull
Today I’ve been at the children’s book festival – the great malarkey – in Hull which is on the East Coast of England. I’m the illustrator in Residence all week and will be filling my sketchbook up – have a look to see what I did today.