Talking and reading What's Up Mumu at the Barnes Festival in London on Saturday 14th at 4pm. Come along and look at the ducks in the pond. @kidslitfest
They're not ducks, they're Canadian Geese.
Tickets on myself…
Tickets for the Barnes Children's Literature Festival 2016 are now available. My event is on at 4pm, but I'm also doing an in-conversation event with Lauren Child (about designing Lauren's books and how she approaches how they look), at 10am. I usually get up at 9 or 9.30am so I'll have to come up with some kind of plan in advance of the 14th.
Photography © Tuesday Child
Cut paper. Make collage. Glue. Rest…
The side effect of collage at the end of my desk looks nice but gets in the way.
Making collage is very satisfying, it's very crafty and structural and makes a good deviation from drawing for me. I must use very light paper, I can't stand there being a bump in the papers when they're pasted down and the heavier the paper, the more chance there is of this happening.
A can of spray glue sells for the price of a slab of beer and if the nozzle clogs, you must find a new nozzle or throw the can away. They don't sell individual nozzles. This is why the Russians took a gluestick into space.
In-conversation with Lauren Child at London book festival…
I'll be In-Conversation with Lauren Child at the Barnes Festival on Saturday May 14th at 10.30am. We'll be talking about how Lauren goes about making a book, from her rough thoughts up to the inky end result, and lots in-between. There'll be a bit about typography and why it's so important to Lauren's storytelling. We've been working together for fifteen years so there will be plenty of anecdotes about Ruby Redfort, Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and other things.
The conversation is titled I Don't Remember Saying That.
You can ask questions and get answers and Lauren will be signing her books too.
I Don't Remember Saying That
Phone image from Lauren Child's Charlie and Lola © Lauren Child.
Wee Write in Glasgow…
Thank you to everyone at the Mitchell Library for their help when I was there on Friday, especially Margaret, Anne Louise, Donald and Fraser. A good time was had by all and there were excellent vampires drawn by the kids.
It can't be overstated.
Wee Write Glasgow 2016
Apologies to Mr. Gorey
Barnes Children's Literature Festival with Lauren Child…
This year I'm doing an event on May 14th at the Barnes Children's Literature Festival 2016 with Lauren Child, speaking about working together designing her books. We'll be talking about Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort, among other things.
There will be plenty of behind the scenes info and anecdotes, like the day I set some type at 24pt leading when Lauren had actually requested 23pt! There's plenty more where that came from.
Lola illustration © Lauren Child.
The moose on the book shelf…
I found an unfinished moose head trophy in a box and have added it to a low shelf in the hall. It makes a nice change from the paperbacks languishing there.
Moose book end.
I really can't work with you hovering like that…
Working at my temporary desk in Australia, overlooking the water. Watercolour dries very quickly when it's 37 degrees celsius. Photographs made by Jemma Tonges.
Treasure Island ahoy…
Copies of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson arrived today. I'm very pleased to have added some illustrations throughout this great text, one I've loved since I read it when I was ten.
