Preparing for my class with the yr ones
my class with year one art students is approaching and I feel it would be best to design a range of activities that aim to accumulate the research I require.
Potential activites:
-draw your traits and feelings -abstract ideas these through visual form and colour on paper
-draw yourself as a tree, animal or colour.
-connect words and colours – create an emotional wheel
-continuous line drawing – automatist technique
-use pebbles
-poetry – cut up activities
update 2/12/18
I have decided to postpone this class for my following project as I feel it is important to consider the ethical aspect of this session, I would have liked to portray some of the students within my work as well as directly use their outcomes therefore this could raise a variety of issues such as false portrayl or copy right. This could be resolved by supplying paper work and organising supervision however I don’t have the time at the moment to organise this. To ensure I still gain in depth research around mental health and outsider art I have arranged a similar workshop with two individuals suffering from mental illness.
I felt it was ethical to speak to them in depth about what my activites involve and what I will use the work for so they are aware of what will happen with their results, each individual asked if they could be kept annonymous for personal matters therefore I will ensure all work is kept incognito. I feel it is best to use this material as a source for inspiration and development to avoid complications.
Planning the course
I want my art therapy workshop to involve a variety of processes that will mostly be undertaken in an automatic approach exploring first thoughts and expression through: poetry, drawing, sculpture. This research will provide me with an array of individual outsider art that relates to mental health issues, I have decided to create a questionnaire and inkblot test to futher research here.
Session One – colour wheel and automatic drawing
My first activity will explore what I like to call an emotional colour wheel, here they will attatch particular words to colours and create automatic drawing using the wheel as a emotion key creating visual poetry or colour poems.
Session Two – Cut up poetry
Next we would explore the cut up poetry task, creating writing inspired by Fokkina Mcdonnells poem’s ‘sunday mornings’ and ‘whitby scenes’ as well as a key page of Carl Jung’s book about dream analysis and the unsconcious, I will also ask the individuals to bring any desired text with them to futher their place in the work.
Session Three – Ekphrastic poetry and inkblot test
in this session we would continue writing poetry by responding to artworks with an Ekphrastic poem and then I would conduct an inkblot test with them.
Session Four – Visual Questionnaire and Ceramic Sculptures
visual questionnaire where the individuals outline shapes and images that stand out to them, lastly we would produce some automatic ceramic sculptures.
I will store their findings in my contextual studies folder, divided from the rest as critical primary research.
FAYE TIKIC 