Connecting with Water
"50 Summer Stories"
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Students interview students about water related summer moments.
Illustrate for a collaborative book.
Illustrate for a collaborative book.
(Mini project to model the process of the big project, “Following Water”)
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Goals:
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Take notes of the key adventures or scenarios, then discuss with your partner the most interesting summer moment. Agree on one moment to move forward with. Write up 3 possible ways to turn the oral story into a visual story. Share the visual ideas with your interview partner and go over them together, to clear up any faults and discuss the images that best illustrate the story. Take the time to improve and refine what was communicated in the interview.
This back and forth checking in will get students thinking more descriptively about how to best illustrate a water related moment they had over the summer. Together they can decide upon a motif and a color palette, etc.
The interviewer will then go on to find a suitable image create a collage to depict their summer story. The partners can also make editing suggestions in the visual art stage to tweak the image enough to “own” it.
This is a fine art illustration of the summer story. Create a book titled “50 Summer Stories”.
This back and forth checking in will get students thinking more descriptively about how to best illustrate a water related moment they had over the summer. Together they can decide upon a motif and a color palette, etc.
The interviewer will then go on to find a suitable image create a collage to depict their summer story. The partners can also make editing suggestions in the visual art stage to tweak the image enough to “own” it.
This is a fine art illustration of the summer story. Create a book titled “50 Summer Stories”.
Process
- Generate good questions - (as a class)
- Ask about summer - (overview)
- Take notes
- Look over notes
- Identify the most compelling story
- Go back for more explicit details
- Get a more detailed account of one summer moment
- Write a short story describing the moment
- Check it over with your partner and edit as needed
- Time to illustrate
- Present 5 images that you feel represents the moment
- Discuss with partner
- Decide on the visual direction
- Co-create a color scheme and visual that suits the mood of the moment
- Check in with partner, get design approval
- Make changes accordingly
- Scan the design
- Print an image to trace on good paper
- Proceed to paint, draw, or photoshop the illustration
- Check in with partner for suggestions and approval
- Make recommended refinements
- Scan and save