This week’s Illustration Friday word is Airborne – image shows details from one of the spreads in Professor Moles Machines (published Tango Books).
Milkman’s wallet reinvented
This is from It’s Magic! published by Tango Books. I used the old milkman’s wallet as the basis for the the Carlo’s Amazing Changing Room. How to make your own magic wallet, courtesy of Red Ted Art, can be found here.


The Poetry Joe Show
Looking forward to seeing Joe perform The Poetry Joe Show again at the Half Moon Theatre on Saturday (28th March). This is the show’s first performance under the Half Moon umbrella with more dates to follow. So grab your kiddies and make your way over to Limehouse on Saturday, show starts at 2.30 pm – all the details here:
https://www.halfmoon.org.uk/events/the-poetry-joe-show/
Picture from the ‘What do You Do’ section of the show.
http://wordpeppertheatre.com/the-poetryjoe-show/
Pigeon paper scissors
World Book Week 2015
Back-to-back schools last week for the week of World Book Day. A lot of advance planning is always required for these but the enthusiasm of the kids and their eagerness to dive in and get creative always make it all worthwhile. This year’s schools were St. Pauls in Friern Barnet, All Saints in Fulham, Coppermill Primary in Walthamstow and St. Pauls and All Hallows in Tottenham. Here’s the montage:
Pop-up workshop – Chelsea Library
Pop-up Village
Having spent a long time working hard on new projects over the Summer, I welcomed the opportunity to do a school visit again last Friday.
I worked with all classes at The Granville School in Sevenoaks on a range of projects from group pop-up books to a large-scale pop-up village. The teachers and children were wonderful and embraced all the challenges with enthusiasm, with proceedings helped along by an extremely dedicated art teacher. The idea of a 3D village was the school’s so I designed a pop-up one, in a book. I arrived with a number of key pieces to construct this and the school supplied the rest. Class 6 created 30 wonderful, highly detailed buildings to fit to the structure.
I wanted everyone to be involved in the day which meant doing quite a few workshops. My aim was to pass on enough knowledge and skills to enable the children to finish in their own time. I look forward to seeing photos of the completed work.
Fairytale Colours


Skull
IF word of the week is ‘skull’. This one’s’ from my book Pirate Treasure Hunt published by Tango Books.






