Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
Today, random sketching. Finally finished reading Macbeth with my class and we had ten minutes left of class. They’d come in the day before from art all keen and drawing-y, so I was like, cool, let’s illustrate! As some of you will remember, Macbeth is described at the end of the play as the ‘dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’, so I was like EXCELLENT, class, illustrate that line!
And then someone made an intelligent comment about Lady Macbeth as a puppet master, and I was like ARGH I NEED TO ILLUSTRATE THAT. And then I was illustrating quickly on the board, and someone ELSE made ANOTHER intelligent comment about the witches pulling THOSE strings, and someone ELSE was like BUT SHAKESPEARE and I was like YES YES ALL THESE THINGS YAY ANALYSIS YOU’RE ALL AMAZING!!!!!!
And then, of course, I added that all in to the illustration. And ran out of board because I didn’t plan to go up so high. And I didn’t take a picture of it, but a couple of random students did and sent them to me. Rawr.
Not a great capture of the image (that’s King Duncan dead on the ground at the bottom, with Macbeth standing over him, with Lady Macbeth holding his puppet strings, with the witches holding HER puppet strings, and good ol’ Shakespeare at the top scribbling at his desk imagining them all), but you get the gist.
And more to the point, I had a blast making it, because part way through I gave myself permission to stop trying to draw ‘well’ and just scribble lines until it kind of looked right and be impressionistic rather than accurate, AND I had a literal 5-minute time limit because the bell was about to go, and I don’t know, I just kind of slipped into a ‘zone’, and it was fun, and liberating, and what art should really be all about <3 <3
SO, this week, I definitely encourage you to give something arty a go. Have fun. Let your inner child run free. You might just be happy with the result – or at least the process 🙂