Illustrating ‘The Jabberwocky’

By Eleanor Somerset

In this resource, AccessArt contributor Eleanor Somerset illustrates how she worked with a group of 7-10-year-old pupils and another of 10-15-year-old budding artists at the Little Art Studio in Sheffield, on a series of workshops to illustrate Lewis Caroll’s The Jabberwocky.

Eleanor worked over several weeks, during the dark, winter months, on this project and approached it by delivering a series of highly creative and imaginative sessions exploring experimental and elemental drawing, culminating in the production of concertina sketchbooks illustrating the poem.

 

Ellie Somerset Jabberwocky

 

Ellie Somerset Jabberwocky

Illustrated poem Ellie Somerset

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