(Session Outline)
We did an exercise with the students comprising of a questionairre about a particular given painting in the exhibition. I was paired with one of the students to do this exercise, I learnt alot from talking with him about the particular etching we were loking at! We looked at 'St Jerome in His Study' by Alberecht Durer (below)
The sheets below are the questions the students were given, and then my personal answers from looking at this etching.
As the main focus of this course is photography, the students were given a glossary of photographic words that will be used and looked at in future sessions. This is show below:
After this, it was then my turn to hold a short exercise with the group, I was really looking forward to doing this as I thought some may benefit from doing it. I made concertina books as a medium to use for this exercise.
The rules to the 'Closed Eye Drawings' are below:
Before the session, we agreed on words that could be drawn that depict certain personality strengths/traits. The students were then asked to draw these traits with their eyes closed. After the drawing, I asked some questions (see on the image above) about their drawings and listened to their responce. I felt like some of the group engaged with this more than others, but I got some really lovely feedback off some of the group which made me feel happy that I had done it with them. The closed eye drawings are something I use in my own work to free up the mind and become abit more expressive rather than having to take yourself too seriously or minding what you are actually creating.
I was really glad to see the varity of different drawings created within such a small group, and they are really interesting to look at how people interpret words and images differently.
Some examples of the drawings created are shown below :
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