Thanks to The Ned (London) for inviting me to present a Little Ned’s book event on the weekend.
We read The Frank Show, talked about how buildings are just made up of lines and other shapes, and warmed up our drawing arms by making squiggles on a piece of paper for a full minute. Then we had just enough time to make a drawing of the person we’d most like to speak about for a school talk: a cat, a dog called Muggles, an uncle, a mother, and a best friend (among others). Jemimah went so far as to write and illustrate a little book about flying a rocket to the moon and back. And it’s not even fantastic thinking because she’s going to be an astronaut when she grows up.
A good time was had by all.
Then I had a fine breakfast overlooking London.
Special mention: Thank you Naomi, Victor, Rebecca, Pietro and Philippa for everything on the day.
The world’s most stable easel.
Lily added cheerful green shadows to ground all the figures on the paper.
A fine example of the high drawing standard of one of the attendees.
Marshall Armstrong is new to the Ned.