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HOW TO DEVELOP
AN IDEA LIST
Ideas: Primary Breakup: The content
of Pictures.
In the attempt to become more creative,
the first consideration for you and me as artists is deciding
what to do. What will be subject of my work? What image will go into the
big blank space?
The suggestions offered in this lesson describe how
you can change your thinking and your ideas to make visual creations
more interesting and more creative.
One of the tell-tale signs of an amateur artist
is that pictures often lack in creative content, they are not very
interesting and do not attract the notice of viewers. The reason, I believe
can be traced to this visual content or the lack thereof, which I will
refer to after this as primary breakup objects. What this amounts
to is a basic check list of content in a picture. A less creative,
less interesting, picture will have a short list. I will show you a sample
of the idea building process where we actually think about these things.
Sample of how to develope an Idea List:
What will I choose for
my theme?
I choose "Watermellon"
Primary Breakup Object 1 A watermellon
(If we stop with that one watermellon it will be very
boring.)
Primary Breakup Object 2 another
watermellon, watermellon 2
Primary Breakup Object 3 another
watermellon, watermellon 3
Primary Breakup Object 4 another
watermellon, watermellon 4
Primary Breakup Object 5 another
watermellon, watermellon 5
Primary Breakup Object 6 garden
space
Primary Breakup Object 7 vines
and leaves (good detail here)
Primary Breakup Object 8 a
fence
Primary Breakup Object 9 tree
1
Primary Breakup Object 10 tree 2
Primary Breakup Object 11
tree 1
Primary Breakup Object 12 garden
tools, rake, how, fork
Primary Breakup Object 13 sky and
clouds
With the list above we can organize our picture,
including each object listed. The use of the space, the size and position
of these objects, and the amount of detail is another thing to consider
as you do each. But this problem is focusing on PRIMARY BREAK UP.
Therefore, do not worry too much about detail today.
EXCERCISE: ON A TYPING
SIZE PAGE DRAW THE ABOVE EXAMPLE IN YOUR OWN BEST WAY. DO NOT OMIT
ANY ITEM ON THE LIST.
IDEA DEVELOPMENT:
The task of developing a creative idea is a work of
IMAGINATION: Imagination is about THINKING! This work sheet will
help you to think through any Idea or Theme that you might wish to choose.
Theme is the overall idea or story to be expressed. You control how much
development and detail you will have in any creative idea you develop.
Good ideas often never get to be Good Art because of lack of development!
This worksheet will help you in developing a
more interesting and creative idea, step by step.
I. Theme: (Select a subject or theme to interpret)
_____________________[ Any theme will have its own related forms
to bring out its meaning.]
II. List objects (any primary forms) the actual
visual content which will give meaning to theme listed above:
{Object- Name each object. - - - - - - - { Interpretive
Ideas - - - - { Secondary content, within objects or forms:
Object 1, ______________/ ____________/ __________,
__________, __________, __________,
Object 2, ______________/ ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________,
Object 3, ______________/ ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________,
Object 4, ______________/ ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________,
Object 4, ______________/ ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________,
Object 5, ______________/ ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________,
Object 6, ______________/ ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________,
Object 7, ______________/ ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________,
Object 8, ______________/ ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________,
Object 9, ______________/ ____________,
__________, __________, __________, __________,
Etcetera --,
ANALYZE AN INTERESTING PICTURE
OR PHOTO
FIND AN INTERESTING PHTOFirst
you will notice it has a theme or subject: You will also notice that
Photos have realistic 3-dimensional space. Sometimes the space will
be deep, showing a great distance and more content in its space;
sometimes it will be shallow, such as a close up view in such cases
there may be fewer objects of content: List the main
objects which make up the content of a photo .
Object 1, __________, ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, ___________,
Object 2, __________, ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, _________,
Object 3, __________, ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, _________,
Object 4, __________, ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, _________,
Object 4, __________, ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, _________,
Object 5, __________, ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, _________,
Object 6, __________, ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, _________,
Object 7, __________, ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, _________,
Object 8, __________, ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, _________,
Object 9, __________, ____________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, _________,
Etcetera
IDEA
DEVELOPMENT:
The
task of developing a creative idea is a work of IMAGINATION:
Imagination is about THINKING! This work sheet will help you to think through
any Idea or Theme that you might wish to choose. Theme is the overall idea
or story to be expressed. You control how much development and detail you
will have in any creative idea you develop. Good ideas often never
get to be Good Art because of lack of development!
This
worksheet will help you in developing a more interesting and creative
idea, step by step. |
