Unfolding stories with drawings, illustrations, mixed media and 3D

Develop visual story telling tools to interpret personal stories, creative writing, poems, myths or folktales. Inspired by picture and artists’ books, illustrated diaries and Eastern European animations, you will learn how to:

• generate ideas through mood and story boards
• create a sequence of images
• design characters
• combine images and text into handmade books or 2D and 3D outcomes

The first half of the course will be structured, offering exercises and starting points while the second will support you with developing your own project and using techniques of your choice including drawing, painting, collage, textile and 3D.

This course is suitable for all levels including beginners and is particularly suitable for anyone interested in illustration or storytelling through Fine Art practice.

Basic art materials will be provided. As the course and ideas unfold, students may want to use their own materials. Dagmara will advise on this during the course.

Dagmara Rudkin is a Phoenix-based Polish-British fine artist who creates paintings, drawings, collages and 3D mixed media work using predominantly discarded materials and objects to re-tell stories of real and imagined people, places and their relationships. For the last 20 years she produced personal and collaborative projects with poets, theatre and filmmakers, worked as an artist in residence and held exhibitions in the South East. Dagmara holds a Joint Hons degree in Painting and Glass, MA in Sequential Design an Illustration and PGCSE in A&D. Dagmara currently works as a visiting lecturer on MA courses in Poland and the UK, artist educator at Hastings Contemporary and a Course Leader for Part Time Foundation Art and Design at Greater Brighton Metropolitan College. Together with a photographer and film maker, Wendy Pye, she also offers Community & Wellbeing Arts Projects and Workshops through their Art organisation, Luna Arts.

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