Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

Overview

“Is a memory something we have or something we have lost? In this lesson, we will take inspiration from the literary work of Joe Brainard, a multi-talented American artist, who mostly made graphics through collage. By recording memories, we can create associations that allow us to trigger stories that we had blocked. These memories often do not have a specific form, so we can make use of free figuration, drawing without fear, regardless of whether we do something that is not understandable, but evocative.”

In this video lesson Joan X. Vázquez addresses the topic: I remember, which is part of the Domestika online course: Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab. Learn how to use memory, abstract language, and wit to experiment and expand your visual vocabulary.

Partial transcription of the video

“I REMEMBER A memory is something we have or something we lost. We will take inspiration from the literary work of Joe Brainard, a multi-talented American artist. He mostly worked graphic work through collage, but he also dared to write an autobiography in the seventies where he narrated different moments of his youth and part of his adulthood following a very simple structure where each sentence was written with an "I remember". In this way no matter the order of writing left clues of what could be happening. This structure for being very simple and very endearing was replicated by other wr...”

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Course summary for: Using Your Sketchbook as an Idea Lab

• Level: Beginner
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• 2154 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 16m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Creativity, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Sketchbook