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I and my fellow teacher, Matt O'Connell (right) were happy to take part in the first of this Summer's Arlington Heights Public Library's Pop-up Studio Events. |
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It is part of the Library's Summer Reading program that features a Super Hero Theme this year. It was well advertised as you can see from the printed materials they've been distributing all Summer. |
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Matt (shown here at the demo easel) and I alternated between demonstrating Super Hero Comic Art and helping with family activities |
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Here I am at the demo easel sketching some action panels. Tables were set up behind the demo space for hands-on art activities. We had wonderful Library support staff to help us as well. Special thanks to Kelley and Sydney! |
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Parents would bring their children and have some time to socialize or take part in the art projects with their kids. |
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Here Matt is demonstrating the importance of settings and background to the comic story. |
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This is a detail of Matt's setting and background demo. |
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One of my demos (shown above) was about drawing the hero figure. This is the ink portion of the demo that included the preliminary sketch as well. |
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We rotated demonstrations for a total of 4 hours. Each demonstrations was 25-30 minutes. |
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Many families took part. Above is a dad and his three children ages 5 through 10. They all created heroes using worksheets that I developed for the event. |
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Five years ago as part of a Creativity Journal, I made a comic about my desire to give a comics workshop at my local library. It never panned out. But I finally had my wish fulfilled when Arl. Hts. Pub. Library contacted me through one of the students at the Art School where I teach to arrange the Pop-up Studio Event. It was terrrific! Never give up on your dreams ^_^ |
2 comments:
Wowee! What a terrific event and story. Congratulations.
Thank you, Mim! I enjoyed browsing your art blogs as well. :-D
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