Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
Including Your Animal
A course by Ellen Weinstein , Author and Illustrator
About the video: Including Your Animal
Overview
“I will make an illustration with an animal like my grandfather and place it in my setting. I will speak about choosing an animal that has characteristics you feel tell a story about yourself or chosen subject. ”
In this video lesson Ellen Weinstein addresses the topic: Including Your Animal, 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
“Let's join the animal kingdom and create our character. I wanted to portray my grandfather as a bird because birds migrate and they travel a great distance. and my grandfather migrated to the United States. And I chose this pose of a bird flying to kind of capture that moment of migrating and arriving. Now I'm going to start to paint the bird. I drew this in pencil. It's a character that I designed looking at different birds And I just want to get some of the shape in here first. And the bird that I chose was a house wren. And I started looking at different species of birds once I decided I...”
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Course summary for: Creative Collage: Telling Stories in Layers
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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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