Design and create a colourful concertina book using a limited colour palette.
The week will begin working in our sketchbooks, developing ideas for the theme of our books. This will be followed by an introduction to colour theory and key principles of composition. We will experiment with dry materials and water-based paints to explore and refine our ideas.
Inspired by Ping Zhu’s Swan Lake and Louise Lockhart’s Up My Street, we’ll spend the remainder of the week creating our resolved, double-sided concertina books. Throughout the course, we’ll discover how using a limited colour palette can achieve a strong visual harmony and how using this constraint can help simplify and strengthen our decision making. With encouraging support from the tutor, we’ll learn how to plan and format a book, and explore how wordless illustration can be a powerful narrative tool.
This course is ideal for students with an interest in storytelling, a curiosity about books and a fascination with colour.
All core materials and equipment included. Concession rates are available for those in receipt of income-assessed benefits.
NB: The course culminates in an informal exhibition of the week’s work, ending at 5.30pm on the final day.
Early Booking discount ends Tuesday 31st March 2026