Posts from the ‘Illustration’ category

Forest of Imagination 2025

on April 13, 2025

 

Wokingham Borough’s Forest of Imagination 2025 will culminate in a celebratory four-day showcase at Dinton Pastures Country Park, the borough’s flagship park, from 22 to 25 May. The showcase will feature new sensory installations co-created by professional artists and schools, incorporating ideas from local community groups. There will also be participatory activities, performances and digital experiences for visitors to enjoy and deepen their connections to nature.

Register here for a place on Pippa’s Drawn From Nature workshop at the delightful Dinton Pastures Country Park, Wokingham on Friday 23rd May 2025.

Summer Literary Festivals

on September 30, 2024

I’ve enjoyed an amazing festival season, sharing my new book with lovely audiences at the Hay, Edinburgh & Bath Literary Festivals.

A big thank you to all the organizers, publicists, and volunteers who worked so hard to make these exciting events possible!

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I really enjoyed meeting so many of my readers, sharing activities from my book with such keen young artists, and having the opportunity to sign and dedicate their personal copies.

You can order Make Art With Nature here

My New Book – Make Art With Nature!

on February 27, 2024

Make Art with Nature

Published 7th March 2024 by DK Children’s Books…

I’m so excited to share with you the release of my new book in which I show children how to make amazing art with materials found in nature.

Let’s get creative and make incredible pieces of art using rocks, wood, berries, flowers, and leaves in this nature craft book for children ages 7-9.

Find out how the very earth beneath your feet can be used to make paints and pastels, and how flowers can be repurposed to create inks. Children can learn how to pour paint onto a canvas, how to put pencil to paper and draw, how bits of old paper can make a beautiful collage, and how different mediums can come together to create incredible prints through nature.

Inside this hands-on craft book for children, you’ll find:

– Plenty of tips and techniques on how to draw, paint, print and collage, through easy-to-follow instructions.
– Art through nature encourages children to explore outside and find natural materials to make art.
– A clear layout divided into different art forms; drawing, collaging, painting and printing, so you can easily find the section you’re looking for.

Become inspired in Make Art with Nature, as I take you into the outdoors and show you a wide range of artistic techniques, from understanding basic colour theory, to creating texture, movement, and fluidity in your own work. Kids will love learning how to master different art forms, but also how to make their own art supplies whilst getting outside and exploring nature.

Available to buy now from Amazon and all good bookshops, or order a signed copy directly from Pippa right here!

Ancient Drawing Materials Workshop

on August 28, 2020

In the September edition of our series of artist demonstrations of delicious natural art materials, we focussed on understanding and using ancient drawing materials – rocks, minerals, clays, charcoal and ink!

Fine Artist Andrew Field and myself shared an exciting  Wallace Seymour Fine Art workshop, demonstrating how to draw and paint using these historic tools and sharing stories and histories of how the old masters used them in their work. We were joined by special guest artist Hannah Ivory Baker who shared her practice. It is really exciting to explore new mediums and materials in our work and to see where these new possibilities can take us…

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All art materials demonstrated can be found at www.artreq.co.uk where you will find over 60 varieties of ancient drawing materials to try out!

 

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We enjoyed a fab 26 minute Wild Wonders Drawing Workshop via zoom to raise money for Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. It is a wonderful international charity working hard to save species from extinction.

Our challenge was to see how many animals we could draw together in 26 minutes!

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You can still make a donation (big or small) as every bit helps our lovely zoo animal friends.

Wallace Seymour Art Demonstrations

on April 25, 2020

We would have been at the stunning Lingholm Estate in the head of the English Lake District’s beautiful Borrowdale valley today along with other amazing artists and watercolourists for a full day of live art workshops, but as we can’t at the moment with conditions as they are, we decided to bring these demonstrations of delicious natural art materials from Wallace Seymour Fine Art Products to you at home.

We had over 30 artists and art lovers in attendance for the live zoom webinar from as far afield as Wales, Panama, and the United States. We shared a video of natural ink artwork made by Pip Seymour himself and two 30 minute demonstrations – I presented the botanical inks range and Andrew Field showed how he uses the 18th Century watercolours to produce Turner-esque effects. We also enjoyed a Q&A session, some friendly chat, and the experience of witnessing a little chick hatching from its egg live on camera!

Botanical Inks with Pippa Pixley – 

These natural ancient materials are made from plants. These inks can be used neat or diluted with water to create wonderful soft washes.

 

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Would you like to join me for my Nature Drawing Online Workshop? This half day course features some of the ancient drawing materials and natural inks demonstrated today – you will even receive a parcel in advance so we can all create beautiful artwork together…

Watercolour with Andrew Field – 

Looking at watercolour painting techniques, moving from small studies to larger finished works.

 

You can order the featured art materials in the UK from Art Req Ltd.

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Type Faces Workshop

on May 2, 2019

We use type all the time without really thinking about how and why we make the choices we do. As a picture book writer type is really important to me because the choices we make affect how our readers respond to the text. Typography is like a visual form of our voice – we can shout or whisper, we can talk fast or slow – it’s a wonderful way of illustrating what our voice can do. In my Type Faces Workshop we will learn about the anatomy of type, font families and design basics. I will share how type is used in everyday life – from street signs to newspapers, from cereal boxes to book covers  – and how the type we use can affect the way we communicate. In the session we will play my Font Families game, learn to think like a picture book designer and use technology to create our own Type Face posters:

 

 

To book an amazing Type Faces Workshop for your KS1/2 class, get in touch with Pippa here…

 

The Toad Lane Time Travellers

on February 25, 2016

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Developed through extensive collaboration with the Co-operative College and the Rochdale Pioneers Museum our historical epic is finally published!

ks1 coverThis rhyming picturebook follows two modern schoolkids as they embark on an amazing time-travelling adventure into the grimy world of the Rochdale of 1844. Before making it back to the future they meet some of the original Rochdale Pioneers and witness the opening of their first co-op shop. Along the way they explore the stinky streets, strict classrooms and dangerous workplaces of a Victorian mill town and discover what life was like for many children in the past.

The book is packed with historical facts and includes a glossary, reading comprehension questions and a set of activities ideal for use with KS1 children.

Buy a copy online here . . .

Charlie & the Little Pioneers

on September 15, 2015

The first book in The Little Pioneers series has reached print proof stage which is fantastic!
charlie coverIt features Charlie, a four-year-old who loves to join in and play with his friends at nursery. He is based on one of the existing mascot characters used by Co-operative Childcare to promote their core values. Charlie is joined in this rhyming picturebook by four friends – Ping, Ela, Alice & Ebo –   and they have fun as they create some amazing things together!

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Each of Charlie’s Little Pioneer friends represents one of the organisation’s DOES values: Democracy, Openness, Equality & Social Responsibility.  I’m already busy working on the next book in the series which features a girl called Ping and introduces concepts of democracy for children in the Early Years.