Category Archives: Sketchbooks

White Horse walking

Posted on June 14, 2018 by SallyK

Last weekend I visited the Uffington White Horse area with my daughter. We were so excited to eventually reach our destination (by taxi as there are no buses from Swindon) we immediately walked a mile or so from our b&b … Continue reading →

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Work in progress – notebook ideas for new commission

Posted on January 27, 2018 by SallyK

Greatly enjoying playing with ideas in my notebook. For a new commission.

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Recent notebook pages

Posted on November 24, 2017 by SallyK

Writing, drawing, recording conversations, sticking ephemera in my notebooks is vital to me, especially when I’m exploring, a habit from my travel writing days and much earlier.  Sometimes an idea will insist on a wider audience and become a book, … Continue reading →

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A Visit to Limehouse

Posted on November 4, 2017 by SallyK

Yesterday I left more copies of The Comic Strip History of Space at the Half Moon Theatre, where I’ll be joining other members of SCBWI to do some more live drawing at the theatre’s Winter Arts Fair.  Afterwards I decided to … Continue reading →

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Notebooks/notes/drawings before Half Moon Theatre event

Posted on October 11, 2017 by SallyK

Made these drawings/notes before Half Moon Theatre events last week. Didn’t actually need them on the day, but always handy! A few of these items touched on in The Comic Strip History of Space, but I was very inspired by … Continue reading →

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My sketchbooks/notebooks for 2017 (so far)

Posted on October 5, 2017 by SallyK

  Here are pages from my note/sketchbooks so far this year.  They often act as nurseries for book and workshop projects/features/ideas, small aide memoires of places visited, things seen and heard.  There are records of meetings and conversations too.   … Continue reading →

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Visits to Chillingham Castle and Bamburgh Village Show

Posted on September 12, 2017 by SallyK

My last visit to stay with OH in her Bamburgh Castle apartment.  I’ve been there several times before,  to take part in a Sandcastle Competition, and to walk the Pilgrims Way to Lindisfarne amongst other things.  This time my visit coincided with the annual … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg goes to Ledbury Poetry Festival

Posted on July 7, 2017 by SallyK

  Last weekend I ran a map workshop for children at Ledbury Poetry Festival, staying on afterwards to experience some of the Festival‘s delights and surprises, as well as explore a bit.  After my saturday workshop I managed to catch the last performance of … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg goes to Penzance

Posted on July 4, 2017 by SallyK

I decided to travel to Penzance for the weekend even though plans to run a Pirate workshop there had fallen through.  It had been difficult week in London including a visit to hospital and a leak from the flat above me, … Continue reading →

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Sally Kindberg’s weekend visit to Copenhagen and Ven island in Sweden

Posted on May 11, 2017 by SallyK

Walked round Copenhagen, climbed towers, and followed in the footsteps (except he rode his horse) of Peter the Great up the twisting cobbled ramp of the Round Tower, referred to by Hans Christian Andersen in his fairy tales.  Then tea at … Continue reading →

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