While listening to a story in class titled "House on Loon Lake," we were to use any drawing materials to create a reactionary illustration of what we listened to. The story is about a boy and his fascination with an old, abandoned house- and the stories of the unknown former inhabitants. After finishing the story, we were instructed to continue to modify the drawings on our own, using our memory of the story to embellish and refine what we had created.
The story conjured up images of dust and grime, of dull colors and broken things. There were letters and small artifacts which created fragmented images of these ghosts, and I wanted to make an image that reflected the difficulty with which the narrator had examined and researched these people, and of the multitude of information lacked. Before we had listened to the story, Mongiovi hd asked us to work in complete darkness for about an hour, and to create a blind drawing of our childhood homes. I often associalte my grandparents' old house with choldhood memories,a nd attempted to make a blueprint of the house from memory. At home, I went back to the drawing and worked into it some more. I tried to refine certain aspects of the house, whilst taking creative liberties to convey the happy and carefree emotions which I attach to the house. I used many different materials, including candle wax and yellow paint.
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