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Sally Kindberg in the Lake District: Part Two, Keswick
The 555 bus from Kendal will take you to Keswick on a rollercoaster ride past Windermere and other watery places – especially watery on the day I travelled as it was through torrential rain. I sat upstairs in the warm … Continue reading
Posted in Travels
Tagged Catbells, Derwentwater, fishing, Kendal, Keswick, Lake District, maps, Pencil Museum, Princess Derwentwater, Swallows and Amazons
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Sally Kindberg at Lakes International Comic Art Festival
What an amazing weekend at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival! Fantastic comic makers, films, live drawing events, talks and unexpected meetings. Spent saturday afternoon encouraging families to hatch dinosaur eggs (as you do) at my workshops in Kendal’s Westmoreland Shopping Centre. … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Events, Festivals, Travels, Workshops
Tagged 555 bus, Benoit Peeters, comics, Dave McKean, Francois Schuiten, Harajuku, Jonathan Edwards, Kendal, Lake District, Lakes International Comic Art Festival, manga, Mary Talbot, Paul Gravett, Premier Inn, Sarah McIntyre, shojo, Simon Moreton, Soaring penguin, Steve Bell, Steven Appleby, Tim Kindberg, Tizzie Whizzie, Windermere, workshops
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Sally Kindberg’s visit to Keswick in the Lake District.
Last week I ran three days of workshops at Keswick’s quirky and fascinating Pencil Museum (see previous blog post) housed in what had been the pencil factory’s canteen. The empty factory still stands, looking very dilapidated – pencils are produced in a different part of Cumbria now … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Sketchbooks, Travels
Tagged 'Q', 555 bus, Beatrix Potter, Brockle Beck, Castlerigg Manor, Castlerigg Stone Circle, Cat Bells, Charles Fraser Smith, Coleridge, daffodils, de Quincy, Derwent coloured pencils, Derwent pencils, Derwentwater, Dove Cottage, Franciscan Friars, Grasmere, James Bond, Keswick, Lake District, Sarah Nelson's Gingerbread, spy's pencil, Squirrel Nutkin, St Cuthbert, St Herbert, St Herbert's Island, St Oswald's church, the Cumberland Pencil, the Pencil Museum, William Wordsworth
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Sally Kindberg’s workshops at the Pencil Museum, Keswick, Cumbria
Why did visitors from a black and white planet travel to Keswick’s Pencil Museum? Did they have designs on the fantastic range of crayons in its shop, or have an eye (or three) on the longest coloured pencil in the world (7.9m btw) on display? This was … Continue reading