This past week one of our Warwick Area Farmworkers Organization Dulce Esperanza Summer Enrichment Program art classes gave students an opportunity to learn more about art through comic illustration. Comic illustration as an artform that is part of the larger graphic arts discipline. Student Teacher Maya Henderson worked with a small group of budding artists on their comic book illustrations and helped them produce their own comic book pages.

Maya is an Art Major in college and has worked with our program for the past  three summers. She taught the children how to lay out a story using story board panels on a comic book page, as well as, to use that to frame to guide each scene against their story lines. Maya then taught the children how to design each panel and work towards showing a story in graphic art format much like scenes in a movie.

The children were from several different age groups so Maya had to be flexible with each one’s level, age, and art skills. Regardless of where they were in their art skills development each child did a wonderful job producing comic book pages. The children were all really proud of their work and so were all of us!

Thank you to Maya Henderson for continuing to help educate the children in our program. She is one of the many volunteers who so graciously donate their time and skills to make our Summer Program so successful. Our students in the Program grow in their educational abilities so much because of their hard work with the children year round.

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