llustrating Children's Books: Beginning to Intermediate
Spring 2012: (January 21–May 5)
Saturdays 1:00 p.m.–4:15p.m.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (SMFA)

Experience first hand the wonder of children’s book creation! The objective of this course is to enable you to produce your own children’s book “dummy,” a mock-up suitable to present for publication. More advanced students may work toward submitting illustrations to the Bologna Book Fair. Throughout the semester we will focus on issues of style, color, and design, and discuss topics such as layout, characterization, pace, and mood, and their relationship to illustration.

Assignments will allow you to experiment with various media and to work toward a consistent style. As your work develops, your manuscript will be continually cross-critiqued by the instructor and the other students. We also will examine the various types of children’s books currently in the marketplace and you will become familiar with the current demands of editors, publishers, and agents in the publishing industry.

Prerequisite: A beginning illustration course or some drawing experience.

For more information call: 617-369-3644
E-mail: coned@smfa.edu

Making a Children’s Book with Ilse Plume
10 weeks: (January 11 – March 21)
Wednesdays 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Emerson Umbrella, Concord MA

Resident artist at Emerson Umbrella Ilse Plume has created many of her children’s books here in her Emerson Umbrella studio. In this course students will learn the steps for creating a book of their own, either for publication or personal experience.

The course will cover:

• Creating a mock-up or “book dummy”
• Exploring current and previous picture books of note
• Presenting work to editors

A material list is available upon registration.
Adults 16+

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