Hi Art Club! This week saw a really big start into thinking about what an imaginary character might look like. While some of you continued to share your actual stories, adding details and visual elements, others explored different ways an artist can tell a story...with words in different shapes and forms, as an image, and as an image from the story in a dream.
Keep thinking about what you want to try next week. We are working towards creating a book( a sequence that tells a story in words or images). If you would like to build something like a model or sculpture from one of your ideas, let me know by next class.There are many ways to tell a story. You can tell a story with words or pictures. You can tell a tale in real, linear time, or by jumping across time, or even completely out of order(remember we discussed 'portals' as both a way to travel through time or space, and as a visual image). You can tell a story from many points of view. You can tell a story through images that are mysterious and even nonsensical. These can all be called 'narratives'.
If you have time, please try to storyboard this week. This can help you decide where you want your story to go, and help you to create some exciting work in a visual and not necessarily linear, sequence. Try to draw before you write (or don't write at all this week!) and see what your images say about your ideas.
Next class, please come prepared to work with black ink, paint and collage. We are building our sketchbooks, and our final projects, at the same time and next weeks studio will help each of you clarify what you would like to say.
Thanks for an inspiring class!
Sylvie
