13th January 20201
Division of time
Reading for research proposal
X1 day observation and experimentation.
Regular uploading of work to site or indesign.
Rough plan
Week 1-3
Experiments
Creation of sequence versions.
Artworking try outs.
COLOUR from the very start
Week 4
Final sequence
Week 5
Photoshop work.
Week 6
Making Final Dummy book.
Possible themes/ interests
The Egyptians
Titch
Trees/ Leaf as a character
Van Gogh - Like Jane Eyre (Paula Rego)
One Page comics about the environment.
Sophie Calle.
Punchdrunk treasure hunt. Audience interaction.
Shaun Taneque surprise
Adaptation of a film?
A world without bees.
Learnings from last time. Don’t get too caught up with the text.
15th January
Useful website
https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books/articles?page=3
I would like to investigate the non-fiction children’s book format and focus my attention on
How to write poetry
My textbook for creating the illustrated book will be Ted Hughes’ Poetry in the Making. This was a series of ten talks which were broadcased on the home service and then printed as a book in the 1960s.
Key concerns -
-Exploring visually the process of writing.
-Evolution of the Thought Fox.
-Revealing the inner self.
- Methaphor of fishing.
Once I have found the format for the piece I would also like to look at the possible second book on
How to paint
This uses Van Gogh as its inspiration.
Key subjects of illustration
- The river and the subterranous world underneath the water’s surface
- The fox.
-The English landscape.
Key biographic moments.
Yorkshire beginnings -Aspinell Street. Scout rock. View to the south was blocked by that solid black rock.
Swallows and Amazons- Trapping, fishing, playing on the moors. Introuction to the animal kingdom.
Life in Cambridge. Coming down from a proviential beginnings.
Relationship with Slyvia Plath
Poems relating to nature and the environment
Life in the 1950s.
The scandal of his life. Two women suicides in relation to their relationship to him
Popularity of birthday letters - testimony of his relationship with Sylvia. Worked on it for 30 years. Notebook of his relationship with Slyvia.
Horoscopes. Interest in the occult.
Fascinated with the white godess - Robert Graves.
Slyvia - (St Botolphs). Teeth marks.
Personfication of the hawk. Hughes as a predator.
Move to Devon. Tatched farm house. Court Green. (ERROR)
Assia affair.
Al Alvertez
Slyvia’s suicide. Left number of the doctor. Taped the doors to the children’s room. Gave them milk.
Poems
Pike - Shows the aggression of the natural world.
Thought Fox. Burnt the page of his essay. Changed to English Literature.
The Hawk in the Rain.
Inspiration
The Litzts
Helen Hancock.
Hockney’s depiction of Yorkshire. A Yorkshire diary.
Portrait. Relationship to Heathcliff .
Points of research
Ted Hughes: Stronger than Death,