Released in France this week is Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest visual feast 'Micmacs a Tire-Larigot'. Typically it's an eccen...

Last weekend I visited a part of Europe that I'd never thought I'd see- Slovakia! It was all down to my Canadian colleague, Mr. Kri...

Rapid drawing here-poses between 5 and 10 mins. Relatively short poses like this forces one to simplify the forms and avoid extraneous deta...

In Life Class I've been trying out some different media for a change. I struggled like hell with pastels-talk about being outside my com...

Back in July I attended a special BAFTA lecture by film editor Pietro Scalia. He's worked with Oliver Stone, Gus Van Sant, Ridley Scott ...

It's surprising how rusty one gets at life drawing even with a short break over the summer. I passed almost the entire first session war...

Last week we saw CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS in 3-D!! After those ugly early screenshots & near ZERO publicity my expectations ...

Last week I joined the story crew of the other feature being produced at Aardman - 'PIRATES!'. On my first day Pete Docter & f...

While in France recently I visited the charming city of Aix-en-Provence . It's right in the heart of Provence with good access to all th...

I finally saw UP -it still hasn't been released in the UK but I caught it last weekend while in France. It's one of Pixar's bes...

Final session of life drawing until the new term begins in September. Warm up sketches of the other artists, students and colleagues. 1 min...

Bristol is an interesting city to live in with lots to sketch. I had the pleasure of sketch-crawling with my talented French colleague Mons...