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This is an exercise choosing an editorial from a newspaper/magazine, reading it through and highlighting key words which convey the meaning of the piece. The National Trust magazine is full of photos, pictures and information of the great outdoors. Usually a few pages are given to the work of the National Trust volunteers. I like this recent write-up fromContinue reading “Exercise: Getting the gist”

This exercise is looking at how illustration has changed over the last 50 years. From the list of illustrators given I am choosing to study Ernest Howard Shepard who from the 1920’s illustrated the well known children classics of Winnie-the-Pooh (When We Were Very Young & Now We Are Six). I am choosing E HContinue reading “Exercise: The History of Illustration”