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Sally Kindberg workshop at the Fitzrovia Fete 2024
Ha! the best workshop events have a life of their own … who knew when I introduced my tetrapods to Fitzrovia last sunday, I’d meet another one quoting Latin (it means now and for ever), encounter members of Save the … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Events, Festivals, Workshops
Tagged Bloomsbury Publishing, community event, drawing event, early ancestor, events for children, events for families, festival, Fitzrovia Community Centre, Fitzrovia Fete, giant knitting, Lego, London street festival, street event, street festival, tetrapod, tetrapods, The Comic Strip History of the World
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How to use handwriting in books, newspapers, comic strips …
I love handwriting! I very often incorporate it into my drawings – especially of course in comic strips, comic strip books and in my maps. I generally use a dip pen with a Waverley nib, and Pelikan black ink. At my … Continue reading
Posted in Comic strips, Drawings, Exhibitions
Tagged Bank of England gold exhibition, Bank of England Museum, Bloomsbury Childrens Books, comic strips, diagrams, Draw It! series, gold, Hair, handwriting, handwritten, ink, Marion Richardson, Parker pens, Pelican drawing ink, Sally Kindberg's handwriting, The Comic Strip History of the World, the Guardian, The Independent, the Observer, TV ads, walker books, Waverley nibs, writing
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Visit to Creswell Crags, Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire.
Last weekend visited Creswell Crags, ancient caves carved out of a limestone gorge. Wonderful strapline for the visitor centre: Inspiring visitors for 50,ooo years. There’s a drawing of a horse scratched onto a fragment of rib bone and evidence that mammoth, hyena, wolf, reindeer and … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Travels
Tagged Bloomsbury, British Museum, Creswell Crags, Derbyshire, drawings, Ice Age, Nottingham, Stone Age, The Comic Strip History of the World, tool kit
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Guardian Big Draw 2014
Fantastic ideas and drawings from children and adults at this year’s Guardian Big Draw at King’s Place, London. My latest book, Draw It – London (Bloomsbury) has plenty of amazing info about underground London so I decided my workshop this time should … Continue reading
China trip part five
Having drawn the Great Wall of China for the Comic Strip History of the World, I wanted to see the real thing. One free morning in Beijing before I left for London – but the cold and foggy conditions … Continue reading
Posted in Festivals, Travels
Tagged bactrian, Beijing, Bookworm, cable car, China, fog, ice, Ming, Mutinanyu, Snickers, The Comic Strip History of the World, the Great Wall, tickets, travel, typography
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