Challenge #2

Hello! This is Ella here with challenge number 2!

I picked up this book from my mum's bookshelf when I stayed over the other day. I started to read it that night, and completely loved it! It's full of really helpful advice and has some great creative exercises too. It's aimed at "the young artist", but has some sophisticated advice in there, and was just what I needed to read in the first module of my MA. I was also very pleased to see the bookplate inside. My mum would have been 15 when she was awarded this book, and she grew up to be a sculptor, so maybe all the advice worked!

 

 So, onto challenge number 2! It is from a chapter in this book, called: "Exercises in acting-out art". I was attracted to it when I first read the book, and have been meaning to do it since I read it. I think I can best describe it as an active, almost meditative creative doodle exercise. We get to move as we draw, and even talk aloud as we work. I am hoping it might unlock my imagination, which I think has been buried inside me after years of "adulting"! As it says at the beginning: "be prepared for unbelievably effective and lasting results!". Here's hoping!