What is Imagination?
This mini-lesson is from my good friend and colleague Maryellen Picker at Captain Elementary.
Have you ever had a picture in your mind? Artists often do! Sometimes we imagine things in our mind that we have never seen or experienced.
Sometimes we look at artwork and say that it has a lot of imagination...we are saying that the artwork is unusual or different.
Artists find pictures in their minds and make many cool artworks.
Would you say that this building (Dancing Woman) was created by an architect that had a great imagination?
Or the designer of this chair?
Or the fashion designer of this dress?
How about these artworks by Paul Klee, who was a Swiss German painter?
Artists use their imagination all of the time to create many things. You do too.
Let's read a book together about a boy and the pen he uses to create imaginative drawings.
So, what can you do with a pen?
Close your eyes, be still and wait. Maybe you will see something you have never seen before!
You can start in any studio with a pen!
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