Story time folks!
Today, Baïka Magazine's team tells you the legend of the Wawel dragon, and also shares with you the illustrations I have made to go with it (issue #14). The video is in French.
Enjoy :)
I had never conducted any workshops as an illustrator, until Noémie Monier from Baïka Magazine offered me to join her team, and to conceive a creative workshop for children aged 6-12 years old. I had always been curious about doing workshops, so I jumped at the chance right away! What a thrilling project it was!
I was asked to develop a creative workshop that would go in line with one of the magazine’s published issues, the 14th one. The latter had told the legend of the Wawel dragon that I had had the opportunity to illustrate. I was expected to create something revolving around dragons.
My main interest as an illustrator lies in colours and textures, so I thought about developing a workshop that would make the children discover a few technics and some of the art supplies used in the trade.
I set about re-painting the Wawel dragon in a different way than the one I had made for the magazine, and this time left the belly completely blank.
The workshop would consist in filling the belly of the dragon with scales. The children would have to imagine the different shapes, textures, and colours, of the scales, and make them either through painting, drawing, or sticking different scraps of paper etc.
In doing so, they would be able to experiment with watercolour pencils and water-soluble pastels, in addition to regular coloured pencils and water paint.
Here below you can see the empty stomach and colourful dragon :)
Colourful dragon, 2019.
Gouache, water-soluble pastel, and coloured pencil, on mixed media paper. About 22x30cm.
And yesterday was the big day to try out my workshop for the first time, with children in the flesh! The workshop was held during the Festival Vo-Vf, in Gif-sur-Yvette.
I had a jolly good time listening to the children’s imagination running wild, and drawing colourful scales with them. They got enthusiastic and very creative, as you can see below (the second photo from the left shows my humble contribution of dragon’s scales).
(photos taken by the staff of the Festival Vo-Vf).
Je serai de nouveau cette année au Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse à Montreuil pour plusieurs séances de dédicace, avec Baïka Magazine et Les Editions des Eléphants. Des éléphants timides et des makaras souriants seront au rendez-vous pour celles et ceux qui viendront ;)
VENDREDI 30 NOVEMBRE :
- de 18h à 19h au stand F9 (stand Les Editions des Eléphants)
- de 19h à 20h au stand B22a (stand Baïka Magazine)
LUNDI 3 DECEMBRE :
- de 14h à 15h au stand B22a (stand Baïka Magazine)
- de 15h30 à 16h30 au stand F9 (stand Les Editions des Eléphants)
L'occasion pour vous d'avoir le livre avant tout le monde :)
A l'occasion du 33e Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse en Seine-Saint-Denis (Espace Paris-Est-Montreuil) qui aura lieu du 29 novembre au 4 décembre 2017, venez à la rencontre de l'équipe de Baïka Magazine au stand B22a.
Je serai moi-même présente, accompagnée de mes crayons de couleurs, pour une petite séance de dédicace le dimanche 3 décembre à 11h. x
// INFOS PRATIQUES \\
Séance de dédicace de l'illustratrice Apolonia Stankiewicz
Date : Dimanche 3 décembre 2017
Adresse : Espace Paris-Est-Montreuil / 128, rue de Paris – 93100 Montreuil
Horaire : 11h
Durée : 1h
Maison d'édition : Baïka Magazine
Numéro de stand : B22a
