Personal Renaissance
Location
CSU 253
Start Date
20-4-2015 2:10 PM
End Date
20-4-2015 3:10 PM
Student's Major
Art
Student's College
Arts and Humanities
Mentor's Name
Gina Wenger
Mentor's Email Address
Mentor's Department
Art
Mentor's College
Arts and Humanities
Description
My creative project combines my love of creative writing and drawing into a journal that utilizes both components. I started my investigation by looking at books and illustrations around me and discovered a few books that really helped solidify my direction. Those books were: What it is by: Lynda Barry, The Book Thief by: Marcus Zusak, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by: Jon Scieszka, and Gingerbread Baby by: Jan Brett. Upon reflection, I decided to create a booklet that contained poems and short stories that I’d written, along with my own illustrations. I wanted to make the words become the pictures, and the images tell the story. Throughout the process I learned that I have strong themes of family and nature in my writing and artwork, and also what weaknesses I have in both areas. I struggled with depicting the human form and I learned that character-building is something I need to work on. I also learned that it was harder to combine my writing and my artwork than I thought it would be. At times I felt that there was a disconnect and no matter how hard I tried to bridge the gap between the two, they just didn’t want to mix together and enhance each other. As a result, this project taught me a lot about my writing and artwork, and I hope to continue creating these booklets to see how far I can push this idea of duality within my work.
Personal Renaissance
CSU 253
My creative project combines my love of creative writing and drawing into a journal that utilizes both components. I started my investigation by looking at books and illustrations around me and discovered a few books that really helped solidify my direction. Those books were: What it is by: Lynda Barry, The Book Thief by: Marcus Zusak, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by: Jon Scieszka, and Gingerbread Baby by: Jan Brett. Upon reflection, I decided to create a booklet that contained poems and short stories that I’d written, along with my own illustrations. I wanted to make the words become the pictures, and the images tell the story. Throughout the process I learned that I have strong themes of family and nature in my writing and artwork, and also what weaknesses I have in both areas. I struggled with depicting the human form and I learned that character-building is something I need to work on. I also learned that it was harder to combine my writing and my artwork than I thought it would be. At times I felt that there was a disconnect and no matter how hard I tried to bridge the gap between the two, they just didn’t want to mix together and enhance each other. As a result, this project taught me a lot about my writing and artwork, and I hope to continue creating these booklets to see how far I can push this idea of duality within my work.
Recommended Citation
Muller, Karen. "Personal Renaissance." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 20, 2015.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2015/oral_session_10/1
