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Your Name________________________
Drawing Into the Imagination
Where
can a story take you? Where can your imagination take you?
Look
at the following examples of imaginative black and white line drawings of the
artist Saul Steinberg.
Do
a Google search and put in the key words Saul
Steinberg. Go to first link on the page that will bring you to
http://saulsteinbergfoundation.org
Pick
out one of the drawings from the website to look at intensely and fill in the
following about:
Title
of drawing: ______________________________________________________________
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2. Choose a small section of the image you are “drawn to” and write an
introduction to a story, based on what you see or imagine in the drawing.
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2a. Now, pretend you could “jump into” that part of the drawing and
be drawn into an imaginary world or adventure. What would happen in that new
part of the story?
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3. Choose another small part of the Steinberg drawing you are “drawn
to”. Describe what you see in that detail of the drawing.
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3a. Jump into that part of the drawing. Where does it take you? What
happens in that part of the adventure?
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4. Write an imaginary ending to the story outline you just made up, inspired
by the Steinberg drawing.
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5. Make up a totally different ending.
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HW.
Put on your thinking cap and brainstorm. You can go to the past, explore
the present, imagine the future and enter a fantastic world with multiple
possibilities.
Who or what will be the main object(s) or character(s) of your story?
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2.
Describe what they or it will look
like.________________________________________
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3. What is their wish, purpose, goals, problem, or decision they have to make?
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4. What is the opening scene of
your story? Describe in detail what it looks like, what’s going on.
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5. Now choose a detail in that opening scene and expand upon it.
What is that detail?
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What does it represent and why is it important?
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5a. “Jump into” that detail and go into a new scene, a new part of the
adventure. What’s happening?
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6. Choose a second detail in
that opening scene and expand upon it.
What is that detail?
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What does it represent or why is it important?
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6a. “Jump through” that second scene and go to yet another scene, a
different part of the adventure. What’s happening?
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7. Imagine an ending to the
adventure. What would it look like? How would it end?
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8. Imagine a different ending. What would happen?
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Meryl Meisler 2004