Video Discription |
How do artists, illustrators, and game designers create Enchanted Scenes that pull you effortlessly 'into' the mood of their story, creating a sense of mystery and arousing your curiosity? I have unlocked the code to these Enchanted Scenes that compel you to join the journey, follow the quest, solve the puzzle, or leap to the next level.
My V.L.T. Method for Creating Enchanted Scenes unlocks the relationship between three essential elements. This 6-minute art lesson has been tested and proven in my elementary school art room with children aged 10 - 14 years.
Try it at home or in the classroom. It’s a winner!
NOTES for Teachers:
This 6-minute video is designed as a lesson starter for a Free Choice art activity using the V.L.T. Method for creating enchanted scenes that is defined and explained in the first half of the video.
To encourage students to engage and express their own ideas, you may like to pause the video at the 1:33 minute mark and ask students to identify and discuss the ‘similarities’ between the 7 pictures on the screen. Students are likely to identify many elements of the V.L.T. Method themselves, before hearing my explanation.
Part 3 (3:18) of the video is all about the students making 3 sets of rapid-fire, experimental sketches, before creating their own Enchanted Scene.
Using my video introduction, class discussion, and teacher input, plus student artmaking, the lesson duration is 90 minutes (+/-).
Keywords include enchanted, vignette, luminous, experimental.
PICTURE CREDITS
This video incudes artworks by these artists:
Anastasiia Vojchuk
Andreas Rocha
Caspar David Friedrich
Chris Haughton
Claude Lorraine
Deb Garlick
Elena Blanco
Florent Lebrun
HatschYuh
Jill McElmurry
John Augustus Knapp
John Pule
Natalia P (student at The American Elementary School in Gdynia, Poland)
Oleh Shupliak
Raphael Lacoste
Studio Ghibli / Hayao Miyazaki
William Smith
VIDEO CREDITS
This video’s title sequence uses footage of kelp forests in Monterey Bay, California, USA, filmed and published in 2020 by ‘underwaterpat’, for educational purposes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIJFTbAS6S0
MUSIC
This video uses the music “Misty Mountain Top” from Microsoft Audio Library.
Rob Garrett is an artist and an accomplished art teacher, writer, and contemporary art curator. With fine art and art history degrees from leading New Zealand Universities, he is a certified art teacher with 45 years’ experience teaching art to all ages, having worked in primary/elementary schools, high schools, and higher education art schools, including time as the Head of New Zealand’s oldest art school, the Dunedin School of Art (founded in 1870). He is currently teaching the art program at The American Elementary School in Gdynia, Poland. He has also had the honour of senior public service in New Zealand, first in a governance role as Council member with New Zealand’s national arts council ‘Creative New Zealand’, and then as the senior manager for national pan-arts development in the same organisation. His national and international work for and with artists has included initiating and administering artist residency programmes, artists’ wage/labour rights advocacy, managing New Zealand’s presence at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, and curating numerous contemporary art exhibitions, public space festivals, artist commissions, and city-wide public art programs in New Zealand and Poland. [TcilNR-xMis] |