Illustration Workshop with Paulette O’Donovan for 10-12 year olds

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Children will invited to create a simple cartoon version of themselves. They can choose from a range of animals to have as a pet, and let their imaginations go wild as they create an adventure story, accompanied by their illustrated pet!

About Paulette O'Donovan
"People fascinate me. Our minds, our traits, the superb machines that our bodies are.... these factors crop up in my work again and again. Art and the process itself, for me, is like balm for the soul. It is a way of expressing what is inside of us. Our hopes, our dreams, even our heartaches, inadvertently pour out into our work. Sit me in my studio and I will forget the time, forget to eat, the world and its worries literally melt away. Add in the trials and sometimes tribulations of working with a new material, and it becomes playtime with determination!

My main area of art is sculpture. I work with materials such as pouring plaster, plaster bandage, wax, clay and paper tissue. The journey of making something new, shaping materials and being not quite sure of the way the piece is going to go/become is quite exciting. I have a story to share within my work and the hope is that it resonates with people in some capacity.

As Degas once said -

""Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.""
Paulette O' Donovan, Clonmel based Visual Artist"