Working from Imagination - Can It Be Developed?
Sketchbook Skool Semester 3 overlapped with our vacation last Fall, and I still want to do homework assignments from Weeks 3 and 4. I was too busy, that is my excuse. But really that is subterfuge. Both Mattias Adolfsson and Jean-Christophe Defline assigned us homework that required drawings from our imagination. YIKES! That is not easy for me - I draw what I see. I can combine my subjects into new compositions, but I rarely draw anything completely from my imagination.
So for 6 months I've been periodically thinking about my first day of school - many, many years ago for sure. I had no specific story to tell, I can't even remember my kindergarten teacher's name. But I did have an image of a corner of the room, with a rug, tables, chairs, and toys. And I knew that my mother walked me to school and dropped me off in the classroom on my first day.
So I finally just sat down and started drawing. I knew my hair style, and my Mother's hair style and the clothes I probably wore. So here, finally, is a story about my first day of kindergarten.
Our second homework assignment from Mattias is to do a meta-drawing. I think I need to let that roll around in my brain for awhile too, but hopefully not for 6 months. I am even confused about the exact meaning: Meta-film is a film about making a film. Mattias elaborates on the assignment by calling it a drawing with enhanced reality.
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Shirley, I love this sweet drawing!
Posted by: Sara | April 13, 2015 4:30 PM