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2020 Educator PD with Samantha Hughes

Join Award Winning Artist, Samantha Hughes for a three-part illustration workshop where she explores characters, colours, composition and more! Samantha Hughes delights in making mischief, of one kind and another. She writes and illustrates in a sunny studio in Fremantle, surrounded by colour and cats. Sam has worked across Western Australia creating paintings, community artworks and books filled with magic and wild adventures.

Part One: Story Warm-ups

Welcome and introduction
100 lines: Expressive drawing that explores mark making with objects.
The Scribble Game: Exploring shapes and creating characters
Magic pop sticks: Writing types of emotions on pop sticks and lucky-dipping them to create fun characters

Part Two: Visual Narrative

Characters and expression: Using shapes to create different types of characters
Sketching characters from suggestions
Colour: How different colours make us feel different things
What’s in your bag?: How objects tell us about the characters and their story
Composition: Focus, perspective and point of view

Part Three: Mini Book Making

How to make mini books
Story examples and conversation starters
How to tell a story over 3 pages using illustration concepts