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Learn how to illustrate narrative through sequential images, either through a storyboard or series of images depicting key events from a text. The text could be anything from a short poem, nursery rhyme, fairy tale or novel. Or anything you feel has a story which could offer up visual possibilities.
The course will begin with a slide talk and briefing about the expected outcomes, which might differ from student to student, but usually consist of at least three or four images. This would be followed by a brainstorming image making session, which would lead to a period of research and image sourcing from the internet.
Time would then be devoted to developing and delivering roughs of the sequential artwork, which would need to communicate your intentions. You would then take this work to completion as a finished artwork, storyboard or graphic novel segment.
You will be working with drawing media and paint on paper, or digitally if this is your preference (you would need to bring your own iPad/drawing tablet).
By the end of the course, you will have learnt how to research your ideas, make a series of rough sequential artworks and developed these into a final piece.
Arrival Day - this is the first date listed above
Courses start early evening. Residential students to arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm.
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included).
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential.
Daily timetable
Classes 9.15 - 5pm, lunch is included.
From 6.30pm: Dinner (included for residential students).
Evening working - students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with their tutor's permission and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Last day
Classes 9.15am - 3pm, lunch is included.
Residential students are to vacate their rooms by 10am please.
(This timetable is for courses of more than one day in length. The tutor may make slight variations)
Haydn Cottam is a painter who trained at St Martins College of Art, London and since graduating has exhibited in Los Angeles, Berlin, London, Cardiff, Leicester, East Anglia, Cheltenham and Sussex. He shows at the Catto Gallery, Hampstead. Haydn has won painting prizes at the National Portrait and Mall Galleries and his work is part of the BBC archived National Art Collection.
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