Envision how your photo will look by sketching and coloring a picture of where you might want to place your loved one in a picture. Is it off to the right or the left, what is in the background? Draw as many details as you can. It doesn’t matter if you don’t make an exact copy of the sketch for your final photo, but at least you go into the photo with some kind of planning.
Exquisite corpse (Exquisite cadaver (from the French term cadavre exquis, is a collaborative drawing game invented by the Surrealists, where head, torso, and legs (top, middle, bottom) are created by three people, each drawing their part, without seeing what the others have drawn, on a section of folded paper.)
In groups of three, at your tables, you will have one sheet of paper, fold this exactly in three different ways so that the top bottom and middle are all the same size.
First person sketches and colors with sketch pencils and colored pencils. Then pass it to the person next to you. Do this until all three sections are filled out. You can do more than one per table.
After we finish with that, talk about how each part of the drawing reflects the artist who drew it.
Then take a picture of your group’s picture and post it to your visual journal.
Before:
For today’s class opener, you will spend 10-15 minutes making a sketch. your prompt will be New Beginnings. I will say it doesn’t matter if you can’t draw, only that you put down what is in your head, what goes on in your mind when you think about new beginnings and a camera?
Take a picture of your sketch, and upload it to your Google Drive. You can get the app on your phone.
After:
With an elbow partner, discuss what came up in your drawing. How does what you drew in your picture relate to what happened with you and digital photography before?
Tips: If you are struggling with the drawing aspect, start with basic shapes. If you turn the pencil sideways, you can do shading like I did in this image. Try to capture what is in your head, and be kind to yourself, my picture is no masterpiece, but I get what’s in my head down on the page.
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