tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10534887058089201782024-02-07T22:04:15.279-08:00Mixed Media MusingsMixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-78816682527008601952017-12-06T02:43:00.000-08:002017-12-06T02:43:59.215-08:00FolkloreA number of my students have been producing creative responses to the theme of folklore. Many of them opted to interpret this prompt in the widest possible sense and began to research oral traditions and folk tales from all over the world. I placed no restrictions on the media they used (a definite plus point of only ever teaching small groups!) and allowed them to create work in whatever materials they felt suited their ideas.<br />
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A number of fantastic pieces were created, including a ghost train rendered in pencil, paint and collage, a scene of death and growth centered around some mysterious mushrooms, a Day of the Dead-inspired skull wearing a crystal crown, a gothic seahorse and a ghostly, floating clown.<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-8244840344489804742017-11-21T09:48:00.000-08:002017-11-21T09:48:18.633-08:00Assemblage IllustrationI'm a huge fan of the illustrator and art educator Hanoch Piven. I've been wanting to teach a lesson based on his found object assemblages for quite a long time. This week I finally got around to it and the results were fantastic<br />
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I started the lesson by introducing the student's to Piven's work through this short video...<br />
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The students then worked in coloured paper, lego blocks and metal wire to produce human portraits, animal portraits and landscapes. Here's an assortment of student work!<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-78193172628877525692017-10-20T05:39:00.000-07:002017-10-20T05:39:08.025-07:00Sharratt Silhouettes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: left;">These silhouette pieces were inspired by Nick Sharratt's book 'The Foggy Foggy Forest.' This is a really fun, interactive picture book which invites the reader to respond to simple outline shapes rendered in opaque black on translucent plastic pages. My students really enjoyed looking through this book as a group. The illustrations are often funny and contain many surprising little details. After reading it, the young people were keen to create their own dusk or sunset silhouette pieces using tempera paint. The activity really helped students develop their contour drawing skills and also allowed them to see what can be achieved with a limited colour palette.</span></div>
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-84282198692051110232017-10-05T07:09:00.000-07:002017-10-05T07:09:13.099-07:00Art from Old Books<br />
I'm continuing to work through a pile of old books that were set to be thrown out. The students and I have been considering ways in which the printed pages (and the <a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/">books</a> themselves) could be used as an art material. This session saw students working through a variety or activities. The starter involved making abstract drawings by highlighting certain words on the pages, connecting them, and then filling areas with colour. The next activity was a process I call "unwriting." This involves using a marker pen to black out words on a page, creating prose and poetry from the words left over. The results for this were absurd, hilarious and, in some cases, challenging. Finally, students created figurative collages by ripping up pages and arranging them on to a surface.<br />
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The lesson began with students investigating a range of art books I'd put on the tables. They had the simple instruction to choose an image that inspired them. It didn't matter which artist they chose, or what they liked about the image. I just wanted them to make a choiceful connection with an existing artwork. Once each student had selected an image, they were given the brief of making a creative response to this piece. The media they worked in was up to them, as was the scale of the response.<br />
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The results were beautiful and I'm very pleased to share them here.<br />
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Inspired By Cai Guo-QiangMixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-64398935831054394662017-08-02T03:38:00.000-07:002017-08-02T03:38:09.107-07:00Sketchbook Library Beginnings...As mentioned in <a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/new-art-books.html">this post</a>, I'm in the process of building up a new Art library for the students' use here at our Learner Centre. To complement the published books in the library, I've decided to also include a sketchbook section. This will feature completed sketchbooks submitted by a variety of creative friends, many of whom are practicing professional artists. The inspiration for this came from the fabulous archiving of sketchbooks at the <a href="https://www.brooklynartlibrary.com/">Brooklyn Art Library</a>.<br />
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I've had some submissions for the project already and thought I'd share some sneak previews of the sketchbooks I've received!<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-88360923664243731872017-07-11T11:13:00.000-07:002017-07-11T11:13:05.662-07:00End of Year, Fly Festival and Debs NewboldWe're so close to finishing this school year now and our Year 11s are preparing to move on. We're also welcoming a group of new younger students to Red Balloon and starting to get a feel for what our learning community will be like come the autumn.<br />
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Last year we marked the end of the summer term by spending almost a full week at the University of East Anglia's excellent <a href="https://www.uea.ac.uk/fly">Fly festival</a>. Though we haven't made it to as many events at this year's Fly, we have managed to take in a few of them.<br />
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One of the standout sessions this year was <a href="http://www.debsnewbold.com/">Debs Newbold</a>'s amazing one woman performance of Shakespeare's <i>King Lear. </i>I was particularly impressed by her expressive energy and dynamic movement - not to mention the almost conversational manner in which she re-told Shakespeare's story. As I had my sketchbook to hand, I made a few scribbly drawings as she performed.<br />
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Though I've only had them for a few days, some of them have already been useful. For example, <a href="http://www.barneysaltzberg.com/">Barney Saltzberg</a>'s classic <i>Beautiful Oops! </i>has provided delight to students and staff alike. People have also been enamoured with <a href="https://www.bimbalandmann.com/">Bimba Landmann</a>'s exquisite use of unconventional materials in <i>I am Marc Chagall</i>,<br />
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My next project is to further build up my Art room bookshelves with a mini version of the <a href="https://www.brooklynartlibrary.com/">Brooklyn Art Library</a>. I've already got a number of creative friends working on this project. Expect a blog post soon!</div>
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Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-5420480109144556952017-05-26T05:18:00.000-07:002017-05-26T05:18:25.605-07:00Clay Head GrotesquesThis session began with an exploration of the 'grotesque' in art work from various medias. Students looked at images and artefacts from Hieronymus Bosch, Diane Arbus and Kris Kuksi. These pieces led to lively discussions about what the idea of grotesque might actually mean. Young people quickly came to realise that 'ugliness' and 'beauty' aren't quite as opposite as we sometimes think.<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-43345975131110735892017-05-24T03:21:00.000-07:002017-05-24T03:21:04.748-07:00Totem PolesTotem Poles are created by many of the North American native tribes, and are usually situated close to the homes of prominent families. They often serve the purpose of telling a visual family history through symbolism, shape, markings and colour. They possess a striking visual presence and people of all cultures and background can respond very strongly to them.<br />
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I often use totem poles as a prompt for educational and therapeutic activity. They can provide great insight into the ways of an ancient but still active culture.As a discussion point, they seldom fail to get people talking about what the various symbols might mean. When people are given the opportunity to create their own totem pole, they often create highly distinct, powerful, intriguing artefacts.<br />
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The following pieces were made from air dry clay and painted in tempera.<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-40004407292241409492017-04-28T01:56:00.001-07:002017-04-28T01:57:05.848-07:00Jeannie Baker LandscapesA few years ago my Sister-in-Law bought me a particularly beautiful and thought-provoking picture book called <i>Window </i>by Jeannie Baker. The book explores themes of urbanization, the passage of time and environmentalism through some elaborately constructed collaged landscapes.<br />
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I re-discovered this book recently and was moved to carry out a lesson on it. Students used wall paper, painted paper and magazine cuts outs to create their Jeannie Baker inspired landscapes.<br />
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Other Mixed Media Musings landscape projects...<br />
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<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/">Folk Art Landscapes</a><br />
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<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/summer-day-and-winter-night.html">Summer Day and Winter Night</a><br />
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<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/">Forest Dwellings</a><br />
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<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/salvador-dali-dream-landscape.html">Salvador Dali Dream Landscape</a>Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-74384012106667479042017-04-27T09:45:00.001-07:002017-04-27T09:45:10.271-07:00Guest Lecture at UEAI was invited back to speak at the University of East Anglia today, having given a guest lecture there a year ago. I spoke to the Education undergraduates on the subject of creative education in a non-mainstream setting. They were a very engaged group and had a lot of questions for me - so many that I stayed at the University for longer than I initially intended. I asked that the students participate in a practical exercise, which they responded really well to. The activity led to some really interesting discussions about the nature of creativity and its place in education.<br />
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Here's a few photos from the lecture.<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-75948070726924177112017-03-16T04:35:00.000-07:002017-03-16T04:35:45.714-07:00Mark Ryden FiguresMy current crop of students continue to work hard on the 'Weird and Wonderful' project. Following on from recent lessons on <a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/tim-burton-inspired-scratch-art.html">Tim Burton</a> and <a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2017_01_01_archive.html">Maurice Sendak</a>, students have begun to create work inspired by the 'pop surrealist' painter Mark Ryden.<br />
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Ryden is known for paintings that blend the cute and cherubic with the macabre and sinister. Though he works on a flat surface in oil paint, I wanted my students to experiment with creating some Ryden inspired figures using Model Magic air drying clay.<br />
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The following pieces were created in this material, left to dry for an hour or two, and then painted in tempera paint.<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-30797054278213776322017-03-07T09:47:00.000-08:002017-03-07T09:47:13.417-08:00Tim Burton Inspired Scratch ArtTim Burton's illustrations often read like a more gothic version of Dr. Seuss. One of the units I teach at Red Balloon is on the theme of 'Weird and Wonderful' and Burton is always a popular choice for students to take inspiration from. In previous years I've always asked students to create Burton inspired art work using pen and ink but this year I thought we'd try out something new.<br />
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Below are some Tim Burton inspired illustrations created using scratchboards. I think the bright, almost psychedelic colours really pop out from the areas of black space. This use of wild colour to create the lines really takes the Burton-inspired work in a new direction.<br />
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Other lessons which I regularly use when delivering the 'Weird and Wonderful' theme are;<br />
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<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/giant-exquisite-corpses.html">Giant Exquisite Corpses</a><br />
<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/salvador-dali-dream-landscape.html">Salvador Dali Dream Landscape</a><br />
<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/max-ernst-surrealist-collage.html">Max Ernst Surrealist Collage</a><br />
<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/fantasy-creatures.html">Fantasy Creatures</a>Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-43167379188759555392017-03-06T06:08:00.000-08:002017-03-06T06:08:30.208-08:00Abstract Soap CarvingsCarving into soap is a fun, clean and gentle introduction to working in three dimensions. Many of the young people I work with are resistant to working in clay; they often find it rather messy and frustrating to work in. With these students in mind, I started to look around for some other three dimensional materials that are low cost and accessible. My research led me to carving soap, a medium I'd never worked in before.<br />
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As the process of soap carving requires access to sharp cutting equipment, young people should be closely supervised throughout this activity.<br />
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When a student is presented with a block of soap and a variety of differently shaped blades, they will quite naturally want to see what kind of marks, shapes and lines can be made in three dimensions. This gentle, exploratory process can lead to particularly exciting sculptural work as the photographs below testify.<br />
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If you're looking for other lessons using three dimensional materials, here's a few options for you.<br />
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<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/made-him-king-of-all-wild-things.html">Wild Things in Clay</a><br />
<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/one-piece-at-time-construction.html">One Piece at a Time Construction</a><br />
<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/wire-mesh-heads.html">Wire Mesh Heads</a><br />
<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/organic-forms-clay-sculpture.html">Organic Forms Clay Sculpture</a><br />
<a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016_09_01_archive.html">Secret Diary Sculptures</a><br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-76027892602682236262017-01-28T23:57:00.000-08:002017-01-29T00:01:30.302-08:00"...Made him King of all Wild Things"Maurice Sendak's <i>Where the Wild Things Are</i> is one of the most loved picture books. It uses poetry and lavish illustration to tell the story of a young boy making peace with his animalistic side. The book reminds us all to attend to (and befriend) the more hidden aspects of our nature.<br />
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After reading through the book as a group, and discussing the themes of the story and the images, I introduced the artistic concept of anthropomophism. Students then considered where else they'd seen the combination of the animal and the human. We made links to the fantastical paintings of Heironymus Bosch and the soft sculptures of Claes Oldenburg.</div>
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Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-47617521868498030822017-01-18T02:49:00.002-08:002017-01-18T02:49:52.363-08:00Lines from Letters - Creating a LogoIn this session, students took the initials of their name or a favourite catchphrase and twisted the lines and shapes of the letters around until they formed an abstract composition. They then simplified and further experimented with the lines until they formed an image resembling a corporate logo. Once they were happy with the design, student's redrew the image at a much larger size and coloured with tempera paint.<br />
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This session works really well as a way or learning about line, or can be used alongside <a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/slogan-stencilling.html">this lesson</a> as part of a unit on graphic design or word art.<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-74778547266079814312016-12-31T07:51:00.000-08:002016-12-31T07:51:05.954-08:00Art, Love and Beauty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Throughout <i>The Symposium </i>Plato argues that 'love requires beauty and thus doesn't possess it.' As I re read this dialogue for the first time in many years, I was moved to consider what possible dilemmas this proposition might create for aesthetics.<br />
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A traditional understanding of art is that it must be beautiful. In a previous <a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/illustration-therapy-and-sublime.html">post</a> I discussed ideas of the Kantian Sublime and suggested that an experience that brings forth psychological movement could be a possible expansion of the concept, adapting it into something that is both transcendent and pragmatic. Taking this further, one might delve deeper into the proposition that 'art is beautiful' and perhaps find common ground with my 'therapeutic' re-interpretation of Kant's concept of the Sublime,<br />
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Plato's argument throughout <i>The Symposium</i> states that love requires beauty to exist and thus love is not inherently beautiful. In Plato's reasoning, love relies on a separate concept of 'beauty' and thus must lack beauty <i>in itself. </i>A similar line of argument could be applied to the proposition 'art must be beautiful.' If art requires beauty in order to define itself, it surely follows that beauty is not an innate component of art.<br />
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What, then, of the Sublime? If art is not beautiful in itself, then the rapturous, transcendent experience that it might engender can not lie dormant within the artwork. The old adage that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' is of relevance here. The psychological movement that the experience of the Sublime allows fo must reside within the spectator. In this model, the perceiver holds transformative potential with them, and just needs to wait for the right image to bring it forth.<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-4845507623160482492016-12-25T05:24:00.000-08:002016-12-25T05:24:38.025-08:00Let The Materials do the Talking<br />
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Working with a new medium for the first time can be intimidating. Just as we tend to create 'comfort zones' of rendering particular types of imagery, it's very easy to fall into relying heavily on the same materials. It's certainly no bad thing to endeavour to master one medium, and many artists build successful careers on doing just that, but I think there's a definite case to be made for doing as much material experimentation as possible.<br />
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Whenever we use an art medium, we form a relationship with it. As we use a particular material, we begin to discover its potential and limitations. A teacher might show you a particular technique, or you might discover it for yourself. Either way, it's important to allow the physical properties of the medium to influence the work you create. If you can open up to the potential of your materials in this way, you'll start to find that different media will tell different stories. Knowing when to consciously guide the creative act and when to allow the characteristics of the medium to take control is key, and this is an intuitive process learnt through time and patience.<br />
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Illustration has, historically, been kept separate from the world of fine art and attributed a lower cultural value. This is largely due to its functional nature; illustration exists to convey and communicate ideas and thus finds its home in "low brow" forms of media such as picture books, advertising, comics and political propaganda. This perception of illustration comes from a Kantian understanding of aesthetics; as this art form serves a practical purpose it can only be viewed as a means to an end rather than an end in itself. Thus illustration cannot be 'sublime' in the Kantian sense as it does not overwhelm the viewer's ability to comprehend it. Rather it relies on the viewer's ability to quickly interpret the image's meaning.<br />
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I certainly agree with the above position; illustration certainly does have practical purpose. I take issue, however, with Kant's notion that images and artefacts deemed to be 'fine art' do not serve a utilitarian function. It can certainly be argued that all art works serve a historical purpose in that they document the cultural, social and political milieu of a certain time and place. For me, however, this is only one practical application of art works.<br />
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As regular readers of this blog will know, my professional life revolves around the inter-connection between art and emotional well-being. I was recently greatly inspired by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong's book <i>Art as Therapy</i>, which posits that the act of viewing great works of art enables the spectator to engage with and resolve issues in their personal lives. This challenges the above described Kantian notion of sublimity as it suggests that all works - 'fine art' or other can serve the utilitarian purpose of facilitating psychological change.<br />
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In my <a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/what-i-mean-by-visual-storytelling.html">previous post</a>, I argued that movement and potential were central to the practice of visual story telling. I regularly teach illustration to a wide variety of different client groups and, in doing so, I often see the artform's great power to bring about emotional healing. In my view, this is achieved in two ways. Firstly, it can be brought about through spectatorship as de Botton and Armstrong argue (and perhaps Kant too - could it be possible that this is what he meant when he talked of the sublime?). Secondly, the creation of illustrative images allows one to interact with - and control - a sequence of moments in time. The transformative power of this practice should not be underestimated.<br />
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I've skirted around two different debates here; the purpose (if there is one) of art work and the ever-blurring line between fine art and illustration. For those interested in digging deeper into these ideas I'd suggest the aforementioned <i>Art as Therapy </i>(de Botton and Armstrong, 2013) and <i>Critique of Judgement </i>(Kant, 1790).<br />
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If you're local to the Norwich area and are interested in illustration, narrative and the connection between art and well-being, I'll be leading an 8 week course on 'Illustration and Creative Drawing' for <a href="http://www.thepublichousenorwich.co.uk/courses/introduction-to-illustration-creative-drawing-mon-eve-2/">The Public House</a> from January 9th, 2017.<br />
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I realise I often throw the term 'visual storytelling' around without ever offering much explanation of what those words might mean. Over the past year of teaching and blogging, I've used the phrase any number of times and it's high time I unpacked that particular bit of jargon. As it's the end of a year, and as such times tend to make me come over all introspective and reflective, I'll expound on what I mean by 'visual storytelling' with reference to my own past history.<br />
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I can remember being in Italy when I was around three or four. Actually, that's not quite true. I don't really remember where I was, but I remember being given a <i>Spiderman</i> comic printed in a language that I didn't understand. As I was so young, and couldn't read much English, let alone any other languages, my parents' thought I'd be perfectly happy with an Italian edition of <i>Spiderman</i>. And they were right! The image on the cover is still fresh in my mind three decades later.<br />
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This Italian language <i>Spiderman</i> comic is still my first reference point when I think about the power of the picture. My inability to read the words didn't matter because the four colour image on the front of the comic told me everything I needed to know. The striking black lines, dynamic composition and powerful colour scheme conveyed a world of information.<br />
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When I was a few years older, Quentin Blake's ilustrations for Roald Dahl had a similarly powerful impact. These drawings were different to the Spiderman one - they were messy-looking and imprecise rather than tightly designed and constructed. But they too had a dynamism to them, this time one achieved through quick, spontaneous line work. I can remember looking at Blake's covers to <i>Matilda</i> and <i>The Witches</i> and them seeming to almost move on the page.<br />
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For me, this notion of life, of movement, is central to illustration. Story emerges from the passage of one moment to another. An illustrative image can never be fixed - it needs to suggest action and progress. It needs to hold within it the potential for another later image - one that might appear on the next page, in the next comic panel or in the reader's mind.<br />
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When I teach illustration for <a href="http://www.thepublichousenorwich.co.uk/courses/introduction-to-illustration-creative-drawing-mon-eve-2/">The Public House</a>, this ability to imbue an image with potential is the main skill I try to get across. I encourage my students to view the work they create as being part of a larger narrative or context. I ask that they consider ways in which their drawings might flow into the next moment, how they might have emerged from a previous moment. I think this is vitally important in effective illustration.<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-5936236549037759702016-11-27T05:08:00.000-08:002016-11-27T05:08:01.467-08:00Illustration Course Week 8This was the final class of the illustration course I've been teaching for <a href="http://www.thepublichousenorwich.co.uk/">The Public House</a>, at least until it starts again in January. The theme for this session was 'working with what's there' and I introduced various exercises that allowed the students to adapt and modify what they found on the page in front of them. These included activities like the 'prepared ground' technique in which students started with a heavily shaded area and then made marks into the pencil tone with an eraser. At the end of the session, the group reflected on all the work that had been done since week one and discussed what they'd found challenging and where they might take their work in future.<br />
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It's been a lot of fun to teach this course - the students have been receptive and have always taken on whatever prompt I've given them. Teaching this course has really made me reflect on my own artistic practice too, which is something I didn't expect. I'm really looking forward to January!<br />
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<br />Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-37722731849273851852016-11-16T09:18:00.001-08:002016-11-16T09:18:48.417-08:00Illustration Course Week 7It's the penultimate week of the adult education illustration course and I decided the focus should stay on creating illustrations based on prompts from classic literature. This week the students were given the task of drawing from selected excerpts from HG Wells' <i>The Time Machine.</i><br />
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The whole group discussed each of the excerpts, making suggestions about the key pieces of descriptive information given by Wells. The students then set about making drawings that suitably conveyed the images suggested by the author's words.<br />
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The theme for this workshop was 'drawing from literature' and I'd previously selected some excerpts from Mervyn Peake's gothic fantasy <i>Gormenghast. </i>This book (actually part of a trilogy) is rife with vivid descriptive language, so it seemed like a good pick for my illustration group to work from.</div>
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As a warm up exercise, I asked my students to work in chalk and create a medieval cityscape with a foreground, middleground and background. I also set my students the challenge of working onto black paper rather than white, so they could see the different kind of effect this creates.</div>
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We then spent the rest of the session considering how to create illustrations of some of the characters from the novel. Here's the student's interpretations of the Duchess.</div>
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Next week we'll continue to take our inspiration from classic literature, using HG Wells' <i>The Time Machine </i>as our prompt.Mixed Media Musingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01513945804549389295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1053488705808920178.post-26432589762887113612016-11-03T08:14:00.000-07:002016-11-03T08:14:00.220-07:00Roman Mythology Project Preparation Part 2I had a free period today so I created some more illustrations for the Roman mythology workbook that I blogged about <a href="http://mixed-media-musings.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/roman-mythology-project-preparation.html">yesterday</a>. I used oil and chalk pastels on black and brown cardboard to create depictions of Pan, the god or nature, wild mountains and shepherds. I also made some illustrations of Fauna, a feminine deity that has a strong association with Pan.<br />
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