Imagination Illustrated
Sketchbook Activities To Ignite Creative Practice
Getting Started
What does your imagination look like? This can be as realistic, surreal or abstract as you like. See the assignment sheet below.
You can download this handout here:
Overview:
- Create a visual representation of your imagination
- Must include your name and the year in the design
- Fill the page with a well thought out composition
- Design a border/frameDemonstrate understanding of color and value
Vocabulary:
Imagination - the ability to produce & simulate new objects, peoples & ideas
Composition - the placement or arrangement of 'ingredients' in a work of art (many things becoming 1 in an image)
Value- The lightness or darkness of a color
Surrealism:
The human imagination really became seen in the work of the Surrealists. To explore more about the art of Surrealism Check out the images and the links below:
Joan Miro
Birth Of The World
Rene Magritte
The False Mirror
Salvador Dali
The Persistence of Memory
The Case for Surrealism | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios