Author Visit - Simon Murray (Castlehaven Class)

Today, Castlehaven class were visited by the author and illustrator, Simon Murray. Simon talked to us about being an author and how he develops his ideas and gets plots for his stories. 

He then did a drawing workshop with us. We were drawing the main monster character from one of his books ‘Icky Doo Dah’.

Have a look at some of our fantastic drawings and how we progressed through the drawing as a class together. 

































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