A Lesson on Communication

During the last class, a group presented their project on making art with communication. We were paired up, and told to describe a memory. As we described our memory, our partner was to draw out what we said using craypas.

The memory I chose for this was over the summer my boyfriend and I had gone to the beach, but the water was so full of horseshoe crabs that we couldnt go in the actual water and instead spent the time walking along the beach surrounded by horseshoe crabs and sunbathers. My partner, pretty much got the memory down well, or to the best she could with the descriptions i gave and the materials. When it was my turn, I drew out her christmas memory of being so excited for her N64 system. I found it hard to draw well with the craypas, and realized my end result looked very childish. I would not have been happy with this as my final project. I was curious to what the class would say, and during the critique of the lesson I found they also felt that way. However, it was a very fun assignment. Possibly adding a sketching stage and more chance for details and then using the craypas to add color and such.

I think it was definitely an interesting lesson, and I hadn't considered doing a project this way until now.