I was SO excited about this package arriving today that I decided to do a nerdy un-boxing video…
The bit not shown is me jumping around the studio afterwards whooping! THANK YOU WALKER BOOKS – I’m so happy with it!!!
Un-boxing the first copy of my new book ‘The Tree’ from Neal Layton on Vimeo.
Practicing drawing Emily Brown and Stanley for a school visit next week…
IMG_7975 from Neal Layton on Vimeo.
All six of the ‘Animal Science’ series of books by Nicola Davies have been re-published in a new larger format!
Hats off to the design team at Walker Books for not only creating their new look , but also changing the format from landscape to portrait…
…all four Emily Brown books, have been re-printed with shiny new covers!
Mammoth Academy in Japanese!
(Thanks to Andy Sharp at Hodder for the photo)
Last weekend I was invited to paint a mural at the Discover centre as part of The Big Draw, the world’s biggest drawing festival.
This year’s theme was ‘every drawing tells story’ so I drew an enormous ‘Batholomew Bear’, surrounded by lots of bees and flowers, to help highlight the current plight of bees.
We didn’t have long, only 2 and half hours to get it all finished! But thankfully I had done lots of planning beforehand, and had lots of help on the day with children drawing bees and flowers, and my agents and wife lending a hand with the painting…
If you want to draw or colour in your own bees, there are some worksheets to download here.
And if you missed the event there’s a time lapse film below so you can see how it was made.
https://vimeo.com/143981178
Michael Rosen has made some fab films introducing his book Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed. Click to links to find out more about Malcom, Crackersnacker and Uncle Gobb and their genies!
All videos made by Joe Rosen.
Last week I was invited to speak at a ‘Power of Reading’ conference, run by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. It was really inspiring to meet all the teachers there, and see the valuable work CLPE does. Thank you for inviting me, and for the warm welcome!
The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education is a charity that provides training and support for primary school teachers and others that work in primary schools.
Thanks to all who came to the recent event with Michael Rosen at Pickled Pepper Books– what fun we all had!
Orginal artwork from the ‘Rover’ books will remain on display in the bookshop through October. Last heard the bookshop still has a handful of books signed by Michael and myself (although these are going fast!)
Opening hours are:
9.15am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday
10.00am – 6pm Saturday
11am – 5pm Sunday
Recently I’ve been getting a few questions about how I make my illustrations, so I thought I’d post these magazine articles where I talk a bit about my process. The first is for ‘Books for Keeps’ where I talk generally about my picture making, and the other is for ‘Advanced Photoshop Magazine’ where I talk more about digital media, (specifically Photoshop!) This article also features the amazing Oliver Jeffers, and Leo Hillier, two of my favourite children’s book artists. Click the images to download printable pdf’s…
