SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17th, 10AM to 5PM

Cartooning Class with Robert Waldo Brunelle JR

In this class students will learn the basics of creating cartoons. Topics covered include: designing characters, caricaturing famous people, how to set up panels, writing speech balloons, inking and pencils, adding color, and creating cartoons using digital technologies.

We will also learn a bit about the history of the various genres of cartoons and comics.

Materials: drawing paper, pencils, erasers, ink pens, colored pencils, straight-edge (ruler or triangle).

Artist’s bio:

Robert Waldo Brunelle is a painter, kinetic sculptor, book illustrator, art educator and political cartoonist. He was the art teacher at the Browns River Middle School from 1981 to 2012. He served as the president of the Northern Vermont Artist Association from 1995 to 2012, and now serves as the NVAA’s Vice President. He has been exhibiting his paintings

in the region since 1978. He is a founding member of the Vermont Comic Creator’s Group, and his cartoon strip Mr. Brunelle Explains It All appeared weekly in Seven Days, and monthly in Funny Times. To see more of his work, visit www.mrbrunelle.com