sketching paris
Selected by the University of Florida Paris Research Center. Developed to examine sketchbook practice (my research) as a critical and reflective form of investigating ourselves and the way we encounter the world around us, other human beings, and culture.
In the course, students used their visit to Paris to create ideas and imagery in sketchbooks. Building upon students’ experiences such as metro rides, visits to the Louvre, visits to map collections and markets, and walking the streets of Paris and the gardens of Giverny, the students collected information and formulated imagery using the city as their muse. The process of living as artists in Paris (i.e., experiencing it, making meaning, finding meaning through seeing it in unexpected or divergent ways such as a wandering exercise, mapping exercises, blindfold drawings, assigned walks, and memory exercises) made the visual visible through their book forms.
Students created mixed media sketchbooks and kept online journals (blogs), all the while exploring and examining the culture of Paris. Through inventive mapping of La Ville-lumière, students created vignettes of information and personal geographies suited for the creative mind. Students received instruction in a range of two-dimensional techniques. I created and maintained a course blog to support course content.
www.sketchingparis08.blogspot.
In the course, students used their visit to Paris to create ideas and imagery in sketchbooks. Building upon students’ experiences such as metro rides, visits to the Louvre, visits to map collections and markets, and walking the streets of Paris and the gardens of Giverny, the students collected information and formulated imagery using the city as their muse. The process of living as artists in Paris (i.e., experiencing it, making meaning, finding meaning through seeing it in unexpected or divergent ways such as a wandering exercise, mapping exercises, blindfold drawings, assigned walks, and memory exercises) made the visual visible through their book forms.
Students created mixed media sketchbooks and kept online journals (blogs), all the while exploring and examining the culture of Paris. Through inventive mapping of La Ville-lumière, students created vignettes of information and personal geographies suited for the creative mind. Students received instruction in a range of two-dimensional techniques. I created and maintained a course blog to support course content.
www.sketchingparis08.blogspot.
