Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
Animals as Stand-Ins
A course by Ellen Weinstein , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Animals as Stand-Ins
Overview
“I often use animals as a metaphor in my work. Animals are wonderful tools for telling stories. Like humans, they have expressions that can convey emotions, and bodies that can move. They are like us but they are not us and an animal can be a great stand-in without being a specific person.”
In this video lesson Ellen Weinstein addresses the topic: Animals as Stand-Ins, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers. Make visual narratives inspired by everyday scenarios, combining photography, painting, and digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“Animals As Stand-Ins In this lesson, we'll dive deeper into anthropomorphic portraits and self-portraits. I love using animals in my work. I find that animals can make great stand-ins for people, because like humans, animals have faces that can show emotion, and bodies that can move. An animal could make a great stand-in for a person. They need not be of specific age, gender, race or nationality. Part of my love and interest in using animals as stand-ins came from some books that I read as a kid. One of the classics is Beatrix Potter, probably one of the great masters of the genre. This is ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
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Category
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Areas
Collage, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration
Ellen Weinstein
A course by Ellen Weinstein
Ellen Weinstein is an illustrator, author, and regular contributor to The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Pentagram Design, and many others. She has won numerous awards from American Illustration, Communication Arts, the Society of Illustrators Society of News Designers, and Art Directors Club. Ellen illustrated the children’s book Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity and is the author and illustrator of Recipes for Good Luck: The Superstitions, Rituals and Practices of Extraordinary People.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. She also teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and hosts lectures and workshops at art schools internationally.
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