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How to Make a Picture Book: Workshop with Aaron Blabey
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This three-hour workshop with award-winning picture-book creator Aaron Blabey is for anyone curious about the process of writing and illustrating a children’s book.

Aaron takes you through the entire journey from generating initial ideas to doing the final edit, and demonstrates his own writing and picture-making techniques along the way.

If you have an idea you’d like to turn into book or a book you can’t quite knock into shape, this session could be for you.

Duration: 3 hours

This workshop has a maximum capacity of 15 participants.

Workshops  |  Fiction, Industry
Participants
Aaron Blabey

When
Sunday, May 24 2009
13:30 - 16:30

Where
State Library of NSW, Coles Room
Macquarie Street
Sydney
 Venue and Transport Info

Cost
$80/$70

Bookings
9250 1988
 Sydney Theatre Box Office

Schedule
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AARON BLABEY (LOCAL)Blabey, Aaron

AARON BLABEY is the author and illustrator of three picture books. His first, Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley won the 2008 CBCA Book of the Year - Early Childhood and was included on the Smithsonian Institute’s list of Notable Books of 2008 in the USA. It was also shortlisted for the CBCA Crighton Award for New Illustrators and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. His subsequent titles include Sunday Chutney and Stanley Paste. Sunday Chutney was recently shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year.

Aaron has also exhibited his paintings throughout Australia and, prior to this, he misspent his youth working as an actor. He won the AFI Award for Best Actor in 1994 and was nominated again in 2000.


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