Art is one of the many powerful tools humans have to process what is happening in the world around us. During this unprecedented pandemic, your sketchbook work is an opportunity to use drawing, painting, collage and text to visually process your feelings about how world events such as the Coronavirus are affecting your lives.
Your sketchbook will continue over the course of our distance learning and you are encouraged to use your work to explore some of the themes emerging in our everyday lives:
-Isolation
-Loneliness
-Anxiety
-Fear
-Hope
-Community
-Friendship
-Family
and many others.
Each week I will provide a sketchbook prompt for you to try. Here is your prompt for week one and two:
1.) NATURE WALK “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks” - John Muir.
Go for a walk outside in your neighbourhood (practicing proper social distancing of course!). As you walk, gather things like leaves, flowers and interesting sticks - any organic shapes from nature. You can bring them back home to draw, or you can draw outside. Use a slow crawling contour line to make a careful study of each object. Don’t worry about it being perfect. Fill the whole page (you can rotate, overlap or switch to a coloured pen or pencil to add some interest).
Your sketchbook will continue over the course of our distance learning and you are encouraged to use your work to explore some of the themes emerging in our everyday lives:
-Isolation
-Loneliness
-Anxiety
-Fear
-Hope
-Community
-Friendship
-Family
and many others.
Each week I will provide a sketchbook prompt for you to try. Here is your prompt for week one and two:
1.) NATURE WALK “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks” - John Muir.
Go for a walk outside in your neighbourhood (practicing proper social distancing of course!). As you walk, gather things like leaves, flowers and interesting sticks - any organic shapes from nature. You can bring them back home to draw, or you can draw outside. Use a slow crawling contour line to make a careful study of each object. Don’t worry about it being perfect. Fill the whole page (you can rotate, overlap or switch to a coloured pen or pencil to add some interest).