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Jan Szafranski is a designer and photographer who spent several years teaching English and Drama in UK secondary schools. This site is where you can download and buy anything that he has made available to use in schools, and it will be updated regularly with frameworks, Schemes of Work, texts etc. If you teach Shakespeare then you might find the new 'easy2swallow' series of Shakespeare's texts (with added bits) handy. If you have any suggestions, then please email him by clicking the link on this page

Background

Started out as a comic book artist known as the Sadistic Scribbler (first underground in the 70s to mainstream in the late 80s) before teaching art & photography to teens. Moved into computers in the 80s, as well as web-design, photo-manips, etc. before returning to teaching in 2002 (as a teacher of English).

In 2006 he temporarily lost his sight (right in the middle of a lesson with Year 11s), regained it but then started on the slow downhill decline that comes with MS... including pain, fatigue, vision & cognitive problems, and tremors & spasms. All of which makes drawing, painting and photographing very difficult, and forced him into early retirement.

Now retired because of the symptoms, he continues to publish and paint until he "curls up into a gibbering ball..."

As well as books available here, his other work can be found:

# My Blog at http://sadisticscribbler.blogspot.com/
# DeviantART at http://http://scribbler.deviantart.com/
# BlueCanvas at http://http://www.bluecanvas.com/scribbler/
# Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sadistic-Scribbler/294160475252?ref=nf
# Twitter at http://twitter.com/SadistScribbler
# MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/sadisticscribbler
# RedBubble at http://www.redbubble.com/people/boredscribbler

All work © Jan Szafranski. Unauthorized use prohibited.

Available Publications

"Get the Picture?" The Advent Calendar Murders"Get the Picture?" The Advent Calendar Murders (book)

Print: $8.39

A series of murders in a typical secondary school baffle the police who race against time, chasing clues left by email. Can they crack the clues before more students are killed? A short novel written by pupils at de Stafford school as part of an Able, Gifted & Talented programme.

You can also find examples of my artwork on RedBubble

COPYRIGHT: These images and writings are not a part of the public domain. All images and writing are copyright © Jan Szafranski (also known as the Sadistic Scribbler).

Copying, altering, displaying and redistributing of Jan Szafranski’s images and text is strictly prohibited, without written permission from the artist and is considered a violation of applicable laws.

Name:

Mr Jan Szafranski

Location:

United Kingdom

E-mail:

jan.szafranski@idea-technology.co.uk

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I'm currently working on developing my use of digital painting. Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software.

Digital painting differs from other forms of digital art, particularly computer-generated art, in that it does not involve the computer rendering from a model, nor does it use the computer to automatically generate a pseudo-painting. Instead, the artist uses traditional painting techniques to create the digital painting directly on the computer as if it were just another brush or medium.

I create the painting, directly on my PC, by using various painting software. The tablet can be compared to a canvas or watercolor paper surface, while the stylus pen or mouse is my paintbrush.