May 15, 2012

How Does A Plan Help in Making Art?

Each of our artists has their own sketch book, and we encourage them to make a plan of their goals in art on the day. I would like to show three examples during the same session.

A girl drew what she planed to paint on her sketch book.
After exploring all other materials for this day, she picked up a paint brush, starting to paint this flower without her "blueprint."
Another girl also made a plan on the sketch book. She put it on the floor in order to check whenever needed. 


In the end of the session, the girl who carried the plan with her surprised me. She shared with us that her plan was not applied in her artwork, so she painted it into another artwork. Though it was not successful, she still read her plan, a diamond poem, to us. This was my first time to know a diamond poem and I was so excited to see how it would be transformed into painting! It is interesting that they had different strategies in planning. The previous example shows that making plan can be just a way to organize our thoughts out. However, the second example shows that, sometimes a plan may not be fulfilled but it leaves a record for us to try again for the next time! 

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