Class Description
Pop Up Your Sketchbook!
Teacher: Lewis Rossignol
5 Lessons • $59
Class Dates: October 14-23, 2025
If you are like me you have fond memories of pop-up books from when you were a kid. There’s something fun about moving pieces within a book. This class will bring you back to that fun place because we will be creating moving parts—”CONTRAPTIONS”—in our sketchbooks. I’ll show you how to make three different types of movement that can be added to your sketchbook, and then we’ll figure out fun ways to incorporate them into our art.
Once you see how these different components work you’ll be able to use similar ideas to come up with your own unique interactive parts moving forward. This has led to some new, fresh ideas in my own work and has also made it fun to share my sketchbook with those around me! I hope you can join me in turning our sketchbooks into interactive art pieces.
As a side note, this class may be a good one to do with your children too as they’ll certainly enjoy this process too. Of course we will be using cutting tools so they’ll need to be supervised during that part.
Lewis
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A selection of Lewis’ loose, child-inspired art!
And in this class we will make it MOVE!
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Lessons are prerecorded and are available at 1amPT on the following schedule:
Lesson 1 – Tuesday, October 14
Lesson 2 – Wednesday, October 15
Lesson 3 – Friday, October 17
Lesson 4 – Tuesday, October 20
Lesson 5 – Wednesday, October 21
Lesson 6 – Friday, October 23
Class Itinerary
Lesson 1: Sliding Pull Contraption
In this lesson we’ll be creating a sliding opening with a pull in our sketchbooks. From there we’ll figure out creative ways to make a drawing that incorporates the moving piece we just made.
Lesson 2: Wheel Contraption, Part 1
For this Lesson we’ll be focusing on creating the technical structure for our second moving piece, a wheel. Since the wheel is on the backside of our paper, we’ll also make an opening for some fun reveals in the next lesson.
Lesson 3: Wheel Contraption, Part 2
This lesson is all about incorporating our wheel into a fun drawing. After we figure out how we’d like to use the wheel, we’ll draw on the wheel itself, and then fill in the rest of the page before seeing how it all comes together.
Lesson 4: Folding Door with Tabs Contraption, Part 1
Lesson 4 is all about creating a big two-part folding door with pull tabs. Like the wheel, this one is a little more complex so the structure will be our main focus.
Lesson 5: Folding Door with Tabs Contraption, Part 2
Since our contraption is all ready to go it’s time to have some real fun by creating a big sketchbook spread using our folding door reveal!
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For a full list of the supplies you will need, see the tab titled “Supplies” located just under the video screen above.