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Category Archives: JOHN
Mayton Street Festival 2012
I’ll be signing and selling books with fellow ‘Islington Writers for Children’ www.buzzaboutbooks.com, at the Mayton Street Festival 2012 (part of Holloway Arts Festival), on Saturday 2 June between 1.00 and 5.30pm Full details of the festival and how to … Continue reading
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Giant School Pop-Ups
I spent a very exciting and creative two days at St Agnes RC Primary School in Cricklewood earlier this week. A whole-school schedule was drawn up beforehand which included talks, storyboarding, reading and live drawing, illustration and pop-up book workshops, and an interview with the school newspaper (this was … Continue reading
The one that got away!
Our mocked-up designs for the ‘Dressing the Porte Cocheres’ open submission in Milton Keynes. Sadly, not to be, but a very interesting project, nonetheless. We chose the ideas of dreams and hopes to link various themes and reflect the aspirations of a … Continue reading
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IF – Vocal
This week’s Illustration Friday word is vocal. I know a few vocal people, so this one was easy to vusualize. JOHN
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Rainbow Cook Book
Illustration for the Appliances Online Newworld Colours Collection Rainbow Cook Book. I couldn’t get that Dean Martin song out of my head when I was working on this piece. Hannah, who provided the recipe for the colour red on her blog homebakedonline.com, talked about her … Continue reading
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Lonsas Twilight Event
LONSAS hosted a twilight event yesterday evening at the London Transport Museum where teachers could meet like-minded individuals and a wide variety of local creative practitioners and cultural organisations. I was very pleased to participate and offer taster activies relating to my … Continue reading
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Pop-up Workshops
Training up the next generation of paper engineers in Our Lady Queen of Heaven Primary School in Wandsworth last Monday. It’s amazing how far a little knowledge can go. I also like to think I’m providing a back door (and a pop-up one at … Continue reading
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World Book Day
A big thanks to the children of Mount Carmel in Ealing for letting me spend World Book Day with them. JOHN And thanks to the children in Reception for joining in so enthusiastically – 1, 2, 3, WATCH OUT IN THE … Continue reading
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Giant Cardboard Pop-ups 2
I spent two days last week in Cunningham Hill Infants School in St Albans where I worked with 5 classes of Y1s and Y2s as a visiting paper engineer. I brought along collapsible cardboard frameworks for the children to use to create giant pop-up structures. As well as … Continue reading
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