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Make a Book, Draw a Story
We all love telling and listening to stories, and this course will guide you through several processes to make a book and tell an illustrated story.
Your creative pieces may have no words at all, or you may choose to blend words and images together.
The main theme of this course is to create using the illustration techniques we will explore.
Session 1
Choosing Your Audience: How will your audience read your book?
Making a Tiny Book, choosing a theme, simple line drawings, drawing with Ink.
Session 2
Making a Japanese Stab Stitched Book, choosing a theme, drawing and painting with ink pen, colouring with watercolour tint
Session 3
Making a Cascade Book, choosing a theme, painting with watercolours
Session 4
Making a Concertina Book, choosing a theme, mixing media and collage
Session 5
Creating a Book with cardboard, collage, photographs, fabric, glue, stitching, and an iron!
Your creative pieces may have no words at all, or you may choose to blend words and images together.
The main theme of this course is to create using the illustration techniques we will explore.
Session 1
Choosing Your Audience: How will your audience read your book?
Making a Tiny Book, choosing a theme, simple line drawings, drawing with Ink.
Session 2
Making a Japanese Stab Stitched Book, choosing a theme, drawing and painting with ink pen, colouring with watercolour tint
Session 3
Making a Cascade Book, choosing a theme, painting with watercolours
Session 4
Making a Concertina Book, choosing a theme, mixing media and collage
Session 5
Creating a Book with cardboard, collage, photographs, fabric, glue, stitching, and an iron!
10:00 - 11:30
Cost: £45 Full price, £22.50 for 66 years and over, Free if in receipt of a means-tested benefit
Cost: £45 Full price, £22.50 for 66 years and over, Free if in receipt of a means-tested benefit
Fri 11 Jun to Fri 9 Jul 2021