Celebrating the Rugby 2025
My team won three trophies last season and has just kicked off this season with a strong win. Time to get painting to celebrate 😃 I call this ‘Rugby Colours 2025’:
Art
The Wizard’s Mission: Cover Design
Having been teaching English literature as part of my day job for the last few years, I thought I really ought to put some of this knowledge together to create my own novel. So, for my 50th birthday treat, I set a little book-writing challenge for myself. I took some of the characters and plot … Read more
Wutong Zakameeniat Paints Mushroom
Here’s a short animation showing the Wutong Zakameeniat character from Mushroom’s Aladin-Man books painting Mushroom on the wall:
Drawing Shakespeare
As many of my students know, I was, a long time ago, before I became a teacher, a professional artist. I am therefore going to be transparent about my own efforts at representing Shakespeare through visual art. I will update this post as I progress with my painting. The first step is to map out … Read more
A Giant Blue Mushroom
The site is called MUSHROOM so let’s appreciate a random giant, blue mushroom I found in Hangzhou Park, Suzhou. It is a very cold day, but look at that beautiful blue sky! A quirky blue mushroom rises to meet the expansive blue sky 😀
Creating House Logos
This article introduces an interesting project that combined two of my professional interests: design and education. Specifically, I describe the educational rationale and creative process involved in the design of the Yinhai Academy (later Milton School) House logos. Background I moved to Yinhai Academy late in 2017 to work primarily as a high school English … Read more
Reading 8 – Writing a Storyboard
This is additional reading material for the Animation degree programme at QUST/Bradford It is uncontroversial to say that reading is probably the best way to extend your vocabulary and the more you read, the greater your vocabulary will be This week the readings are on different websites which you can find by following the links … Read more
Reading 6 – Mini Saga (place)
This is an additional Reading Text for the Animation degree programme at QUST/Bradford It is uncontroversial to say that reading is probably the best way to extend your vocabulary and the more you read, the greater your vocabulary will be The reading material and exercises on this page will help you prepare for your Writing … Read more
Painting Zombies
This is the second painting lesson as part of a Halloween themed project that I taught at Yinhai Academy, Qingdao. The first lesson in the series was Pumpkin Painting (unfortunately lost with a server change). The artistic aim of this lesson is to paint a zombie and the educational aims are: to think about the … Read more