Monthly Archives: September 2010
your turn! join vern and lettuce in pickle rye!
Today’s the official launch date! At last, Vern and Lettuce, the comic book, has landed! Vern and Lettuce would like to mark the occasion by launching their own online magazine, set in their world of Pickle Rye. It’s a town … Continue reading
vern vs mo-bot!
Today Neill Cameron, Garen Ewing and I met up with Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival coordinator Alex Milway to do a festival promo event at Kingswood Primary School in Gipsy Hill, southeast London. Garen and Alex did their thing in … Continue reading
greenwich park sketch
This morning’s dull grey haze made the trees almost lumps of black shadow. But I tried my best to pick out something interesting. The tree itself couldn’t be better, I must go back and draw it when I can figure … Continue reading
the pickle + laydeez do comics
Last night I missed the last Tube train by about three minutes and therefore had a very long journey home, involving three night buses. *Groan* So I rolled late out of bed this morning, straight into the studio, where I’m … Continue reading
wigtown sketch + interview with matt badham
I’m still plugging away at trying to learn a bit more about drawing landscapes. At the Wigtown book fest, I was telling Polly Dunbar about it and she burst out laughing, ‘So you’re doing it to impress Philip Reeve!’ ‘Noo!” … Continue reading
wigtown book festival
What a fabulous weekend! On previous trips to Wigtown, Stuart and I have rated Dumfriesshire the most beautiful place in the world: the light, the hills, the stone walls, the trees… sometimes the landscape’s so beautiful it almost hurts. So … Continue reading
here be monsters
We spotted these beasties on the long walk to Scotland, and captured them for the Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival‘s Monster Book. But they are already shredding the insides of our rucksacks and bellowing for cheese sandwiches with the crusts … Continue reading
just before i head to scotland…
Loads to blog about before I head off tomorrow to the Wigtown Book Festival! Come along on the Saturday, you can come first to my event, then Polly Dunbar‘s. **SALE!** I haven’t wanted to sell any of my Morris the … Continue reading
giant rhubarb in the sanford co-op
I overslept a bit this morning, so I only managed to get as far as the Sanford Housing Cooperative garden to draw, and I rushed and didn’t get anywhere near finished. But it’s beautiful in their gardens, and Gordon who … Continue reading
nunhead cemetery
Another try at drawing trees, this time at Nunhead Cemetery. I love this place, it’s one of the ‘Magnificent Seven‘, which includes Highgate Cemetery (where I made the recent post about Audrey Niffenegger & Tracy Chevalier). I didn’t know how … Continue reading
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