Creativity, Cartooning and Crockery

I ran another cartoon workshop last week. This one was about drawing comic strips. I issued a spur of the moment challenge to the kids to see who could draw the most characters in one panel, with the winner getting a signed copy of FAB Club. The kids went crazy nuts drawing.
This was the winning entry. Admittedly some of them were very small, but it did beat the nearest contender which had a lot of ants in it. I felt it was deserving of the prize (you can see the other contenders on my blog).

This month, I threw together the last of my pottery. Unlike the others in the class, I had very little experience and almost no natural ability. This was how things went:

I really hope the fermentation crock I made with all my remaining clay works out because that was the main reason for doing the class in the first place. These things can cost hundreds of dollars. Mind you, they don't look like mine.


A more successful creative endeavour was the publication of the second in the FAB Club series. I'm more proud of this than anything else I've written. When my editor said it was the book she would have liked to have read as a child it made me feel I was producing something worthwhile (which is more than can be said for my pottery).

The chapter book is now on Amazon and if you are a member of that thing where you get to read free ebooks (Prime?) you can read FAB Club 2 - Friends Against Cyberbullying for free. If you do read it, I'd love it if you could leave a review. It's the only way independent authors like me get their work seen.

 

The next epistle will be coming to you from Europe as I will be on a working holiday, teaching kids cartooning at the Herne Bay Festival and promoting the Spanish translation of my Basque Diary (which I have to transcribe and lay out, eek).
Until then.

Ta ta for now

PS. The bird table is still a big success with the silvereyes. They have been joined by sparrows, starlings and greenfinches and it is costing me a fortune in fat balls.