Being obsessed with the stork population of Valladolid (did I mention the storks?) I decided to make everyone a stork picture to take home. ...

It all feels a bit like a dream now, our week together in Valladolid. We had so much fun drawing and sharing ideas and pencil sharpeners and...

On Wednesday we considered patterns and clothing (amongst other things) and each made a paper garment or two, which we cut out and attached ...

This morning on our side of the "claustro" in the Museo Patio Herreriano (as opposed to Satoshi Kitamura 's side...we sit in t...

Day one of our week long workshop. We played exquisite corpse straight away and the results were stupendous. Then we introduced ourselves an...

For the next week I am in Valladolid which is a small town North of Madrid, for Illustratour, an international children's book illustrat...

I'm sorry it's been such a long time between drinks, and you might be forgiven for thinking I'd gone all lazy, but in fact I hav...

My very dear friend Nick has made these funny and beautiful (my favorite combination) embroidered silk scarves and linen pillows. You can bu...

The delightful Lexi Green has written a piece for The Inside Source linking my work to my eBay purchases, thereby giving me permission to s...

I am very happy to be the featured seller on Etsy today and am using the opportunity to clean out some paintings from my studio, and turn ...

I have finally, finally delivered Spinster Goose , Twisted Rhymes for Naughty Children (written by Lisa Wheeler to be published by Atheneu...

I mentioned Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me last year, but I'm thrilled she just won the Newbery Award (which is all to do with w...

Moving house around Christmas time was stupid, but moving while I have six books either due, nearly due or overdue was insane. This picture ...

I think I might be mad. I have three (or is it five?) picture books now officially overdue, I'm moving house in ten days time, I haven...

The new Ivy and Bean is out, book 6, Doomed to Dance. If anyone is in New York this Saturday, in the vicinity of the Brooklyn Museum , betwe...

It's been rather a long time. I've been a bit consumed with the other blog , and this one has become the overlooked sibling. The hom...

This is an illustration which accompanied a review in yesterday's Boston Globe of E. L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley . I don't ...