30 June 2017

Artist / Picture book Illustrator Study ~ Highschool

Winter time gifts us with extra hours indoors to get the practical aspect of our artist / illustrators study up and running for Daisy.
We are not going to be going fathoms deep with this one - it's the kind of study that a planning mumma (ahem ;) ) could get seriously submerged in resource gathering.... and then we'd never start.

We signed up, briefly, to the members section on Read-Aloud Revival, as we plan to use the following interviews as a leaping off point:
Illustrator 101   members section - Workshop
Patricia Polacco     members section - Author Event  P.P      author/illustrator
Jonathan Bean   members section - Author Event  J.B    author/illustrator
Tomie dePaola  members section - Author Event  T.P    author/illustrator

Books about select picture book illustrators already read:



I'm placing these few links here for me to find again quickly:
Exploring Language: Static Images - Picture Books     NZ English
Thumb templates for writers and illustrators 

Daisy will be choosing some favourite illustrators of her choice to study, one illustrator a month, and then I'm asking that she:
1:  craft a brief illustrator biography,
2:  select various books by that illustrator to work with,  discuss techniques,
3:  recreate an illustration using the artists techniques (update: this became on optional extra, as she became immersed in working with other craft mediums.)

Both of us are really looking forward to working on this together since we are devout picture book appreciators -simple picture books and sophisticated picture books, we like both.

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