Graphic Narratives with Martha Newbigging
Baxter Arts Centre
3 Stanley St, Bloomfield, ON K0K 1G0, Canada
Prince Edward
Ontario
43.9855881
-77.2329537
Graphic Narratives with Martha NewbiggingWriting with pictures for non-artists – an introduction to making comics.SATURDAY APRIL 14 1:00 to 4:00pm$45Audience: Ages 16 and up. No drawing experience necessary. Course is limited to 10 students. Please register early.Materials: All materials supplied by the artist.
Learn simple methods for drawing people and the basics of sequential visual storytelling. Explore what you can say with pictures while using words selectively for counterpoint. Notice how showing your story in pictures alters the experience of both telling it and reading it.
ABOUT MARTHA NEWBIGGING www.marthanewbigging.com
Martha Newbigging is a children’s book illustrator, animator, and educator. She has illustrated children’s books and textbooks for publishers including Annick Press, Owl Books and Kids Can Press. She has taught in a wide range of school and community settings, such as comics workshops in schools across Ontario, animation workshops in Toronto and Prince Edward County, a practicum in rural Nicaragua, and arts programs for an LGBTQ youth support group in Belleville. Martha was the inaugural Joanne Fitzgerald Illustrator in Residence at the Toronto Public Library in 2013. Martha is also an instructor in the Illustration program at the School for Creative Arts & Animation at Seneca College.
