We chose a story - from life, the newspaper, memory, whatever - and brainstormed/visualised it, noting down the details -
Then we worked in pairs, telling the other about our story and listening to theirs. Joanna was using "
The Bed Song", which starts out with the couple bedding down in a sleeping bag on friends' floors, then moving up to ever bigger beds, until they have a king-size bed that mirrors how far apart they've grown. She was visualising a plain room and a neat white bed, a tree outside the window. I added a door on the left and a blowing curtain - and a big mirror over the bed - to reflect...what?
Here's her revision -
My story is a Bluebeard variant called
Mr Fox - published in Joseph Jacob's English Fairy Tales in 1869, but known at the time of Shakespeare. I used it in a storytelling course, 25 years ago, and couldn't quite remember the details - so set it in a French farmhouse, where the young wife discovers something nasty in the attic, and something else unwelcome around the breakfast table. Here's what Joanna painted for me -
which I revised to add French doors onto the patio, storm clouds gathering, and perhaps the cupboards etc of a big farmhouse kitchen.
Homework is to gather reference images for the objects etc in our painting.
Then we worked in pairs, telling the other about our story and listening to theirs. Joanna was using "The Bed Song", which starts out with the couple bedding down in a sleeping bag on friends' floors, then moving up to ever bigger beds, until they have a king-size bed that mirrors how far apart they've grown. She was visualising a plain room and a neat white bed, a tree outside the window. I added a door on the left and a blowing curtain - and a big mirror over the bed - to reflect...what?
Here's her revision -
My story is a Bluebeard variant called Mr Fox - published in Joseph Jacob's English Fairy Tales in 1869, but known at the time of Shakespeare. I used it in a storytelling course, 25 years ago, and couldn't quite remember the details - so set it in a French farmhouse, where the young wife discovers something nasty in the attic, and something else unwelcome around the breakfast table. Here's what Joanna painted for me -
which I revised to add French doors onto the patio, storm clouds gathering, and perhaps the cupboards etc of a big farmhouse kitchen.
Homework is to gather reference images for the objects etc in our painting.
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