I find writing with pictures much easier than writing with words? But people always say start with the words?
Writing with pictures
Category: Making
If you have an idea, just make it
Unless your idea is made, it joins the pile of ‘ideas I should make’, not the pile you can call ‘my body of work’.
Art as therapy
What if we were able to tell ourselves a story to be OK with prioritising art in our lives? What sort of work would we make?
Drawing as an energy-giving activity
Drawing gives me energy in different ways, but there’s nothing quite like watching it give power to a child.
What do I really care about?
Anyone can write a story about anything, but only I can write a story about the stuff I care about.
The slow death of fiction in picture books?
What happens when children’s publishing is too afraid to focus on good fiction?
An addiction to steep learning curves
A journey into art may be about reckoning with how little one knows about oneself and the rest of the world.
What’s illustration for?
If it’s about image-making, then why not stickc with photography or video? What’s so special about illustration?
The worst part of the process
Maybe it’s not that we don’t like something, it’s just that we don’t understand it yet.
For and Against Tradition
The constraints of ‘tradition’ can be useful, but so too is our capacity to completely ignore them