This week, we were going to explore illustration. We talked about various kinds of illustration as well as what purpose they serve. H. C Andersen is my favorite fairy tale writer, I simply love his complex and poetic tales (and then he is a great Dane!). I had decided that we were going go illustrate Princess And The Pea - because it is a pretty short story and because it is full of visual scenes. We made a good long list of parts that would be great to draw and got started. This week we worked with paper and color pencil, I like to work with as many different mediums as possible in this 12 week course. Tuesday was actually a school holiday, and I sensed a lot of extra condensed energy in the room, a need for chatting, giggling and dancing, and we had to re-focus a few times!
But, the work turned out great, a few students picked the scene when the princess knocked on the door in the dreadful weather, but naturally they were very different, and from different angles.
We also got a picture of the princess entering the door (with a beautiful long shadow!) the queen making the bed with all the mattresses, as well as a close up of the hand with the pea in it.
The prince traveling around the world looking for a ‘real’ princess also got his illustration, and so did the pea in a display case in a museum.
By the end of the day we put them in order, and they managed to (almost) tell the entire story.
