At the end of February, I was invited to Edmonton by the Young Alberta Book Society to participate in Story Avenue, an annual workshop for grades 5 and 6 from different schools to learn about creative writing. Although I have given several presentations to adults, and I teach an adult illustration class, this was my first time working with elementa ...
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I teach an illustration class in the Continuing Education department at ACAD. Every semester I like to do a little demo to show my students how I work. It's not a very fancy demonstration, I just like them to see how I use the materials, like acrylic paint and coloured pencils, to make my images. That I pretty much just play with the paint until it ...
Read MoreThe class I teach at ACAD wrapped up tonight. Once again I ended the semester with a presentation by Mike Kerr about his illustration work as well as his wife, Renata Liwska's, children book work. As usual, it was great - very interesting and informative. Check out their beautiful and unique work here.Thanks so much Mike for coming!I was very fo ...
Read MoreI had meant to pass around a paper for the people in my class to write their e-mail addresses on (if they wanted to) for the purpose of the students being able to keep in touch and have a community of aspiring children's book illustrators. A few people had expressed a desire to do this. I, however, forgot to do it and now that the class has wrapp ...
Read MoreI taught my last class for this semester yesterday evening. I thought it would be nice to do something casual since no one ever really wants to do any work on the last day. I arranged to have Renata Liwska and Mike Kerr come in to do a talk. Renata ended up being sick so Mike presented both of their work to the class. It was really great and in ...
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