I have workshops at the library coming up during the month of July. They are mostly contour drawing or watercolor, but for one workshop the librarian who hired me asked, Can we do something that somehow relates to summer reading club? You can imagine that those were magic words to utter to me, the former librarian and current readers' advisor who loves nothing better than to paint what I'm reading! So we are going to ask the participants to bring what they're reading (or go out into the library and find something on the day), and we're going to draw and paint the books.
I wanted to show them the kind of thing I have done before so it would inspire them to do something fun, so I made a flyer featuring drawings of single books, books with a scene from the story as background, multiple books in one drawing, made-up book covers for those books whose contents you love but whose cover is wholly inadequate (or downright ugly!), and a portrait of a person reading his book. It's a little busy, but I think it will serve as both flyer beforehand and template during the class. I hope the librarian likes it...
