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📚✨ STORYBOOK ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP - THURSTON LIBRARY ✨📚There is no mistaking the focal point of this piece! - This terr...
20/03/2026

📚✨ STORYBOOK ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP - THURSTON LIBRARY ✨📚

There is no mistaking the focal point of this piece! - This terrific otter looks as though it has just spotted us under the water and is curious to say hello!

This was an awesome piece by a student in the Thurston library World Book Day Workshop - an excellent use of foreground with the central placement of the character, middle ground with the seaweed and background with the water ripples hinted at with delicate paint stroke lines.

The positioning, expression and ex*****on of the pensive otter tells a story of a chance encounter between us and the otter in their natural environment - excellent work, five stars!

Students were asked to bring their favourite books along to the workshop - which was in celebration of world book day. They used these and the library books they were surrounded with as “Imagination Food” (inspiration) for the workshops and to help them to tell stories with their illustrations.
 
The workshop began with x2 exercises that taught them water-based paint, pencil and pen techniques to create characters and scenes before embarking on their individual projects. It was a truly magical workshop.

The students left the workshop feeling confident in their visual communication skills and with a sense of pride at the work they had accomplished.

📚✨ STORYBOOK ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP - THURSTON LIBRARY ✨📚Look at these stunning illustrations from a World Book Day - Ima...
20/03/2026

📚✨ STORYBOOK ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP - THURSTON LIBRARY ✨📚

Look at these stunning illustrations from a World Book Day - Imagination Education workshop!

Students were asked to bring their favourite books along to the workshop - which was in celebration of world book day. They used these and the library books they were surrounded with as “Imagination Food” (inspiration) for the workshops and to help them to tell stories with their illustrations.
 
The workshop began with x2 exercises that taught them water-based paint, pencil and pen techniques to create characters and scenes before embarking on their individual projects. It was a truly magical workshop.

The students left the workshop feeling confident in their visual communication skills and with a sense of pride at the work they had accomplished.

📚✨ STORYBOOK ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP - THURSTON LIBRARY ✨📚Students were asked to bring their favourite books along to the ...
20/03/2026

📚✨ STORYBOOK ILLUSTRATION WORKSHOP - THURSTON LIBRARY ✨📚

Students were asked to bring their favourite books along to the workshop - which was in celebration of world book day. They used these and the library books they were surrounded with as “Imagination Food” (inspiration) for the workshops and to help them to tell stories with their illustrations.
 
The workshop began with x2 exercises that taught them water-based paint, pencil and pen techniques to create characters and scenes before embarking on their individual projects. It was a truly magical workshop.
  
Here is an outcome from the “Faces” exercise that was created during the workshop:
 
- the students are asked to use the bright water-based paints to create blobs on the watercolour paper, testing out the results that different amounts of water create when applied to the pigment
 
- next we run through letters of the alphabet and talk about how illustrators use dots lines and shapes and letters to create expression
 
- we then discuss expressions, pulling faces themselves and study the alphabet to see similarities
 
- then we build our expressions with letters, dots and lines
 
- next we think about our characters hairstyle choices, jewellery, accessories
 
- we experiment with layering our blobs using colouring pencils to add texture and colour
 
- finally, we name our blobs to give them a sense of identity.

The students left the workshop feeling confident in their visual communication skills and with a sense of pride at the work they had accomplished.

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