Childrens Book Illustration Summer School

Materials list
General drawing materials are required
Drawing pencils, 2B-6B
Eraser and putty rubber
Black ink (optional)
Brushes (larger ones are more useful than small ones) (optional)
Scalpel or Stanley Knife
Metal Ruler
Double sided sticky tape
Fine liners / fibre tips / Dip pens (optional)
Sketchbook A5 or A4
A3 paper (can be in a spiral bound sketchbook or loose sheets)
Cutting mat
If you have any favourite materials already, we suggest you bring those along
too.
There is a caf open during the week for coffee breaks and light lunches, so I
suggest that you bring enough cash for these as these are not supplied as
part of the course. We do have a kettle in the studio, so if you want to bring
your own mug and spoon you are welcome to do so. We will also be using
the photocopier later in the week, so please bring cash to do photocopies
from our Reprographic Centre located in COS023 (0.06 for 1 A4 copy in
black and white and 0.12 in A3 ).

June 22nd 2015

I am so pleased that you have signed up to the Childrens Book Illustration Summer School.
We are looking forward to meeting you all and to working with you.
Please come to the Ruskin Gallery at 10.00am on Monday 27th July 2015.
We aim to give you as much behind the scenes information about how picturebooks are
developed as possible in one week, and to help you to produce a dummy picturebook of your
own. It will be a lot of work, and we may ask you to develop some aspects of your book
during the evenings ready for the next day. In preparation for this, could I ask you to prepare
a short story in advance that you could use as a springboard for further development during
the week?
The story should be short, no more than 500 words, and ideally paced so that it can be told
in 12 instalments or paragraphs. We will be working on this during the week, and will be
editing it a great deal, so please do not spend too much time getting it word perfect I
cannot emphasize this enough. We want you to feel free to hack your idea about for the sake
of a good picture-book, and if you are too attached to your beautifully crafted text this will
inhibit your ability to do this. A strong, punchy idea that you can tell in 500 words would be
perfect.
Please bring your story with you for the first session on July 27th.
My email address is pam.smy@anglia.ac.uk if you have any questions about this or any other
aspect of the Summer School.
I look forward to seeing you.
Very best wishes,
Pam Smy
Senior Lecturer in Illustration
Cambridge School of Art
Anglia Ruskin University
0845 196 2457