Click on the links to watch and listen to Wendy Woolfson bring Johanna Basford’s designs to life through stroytelling.
Storytelling within ‘Crazy Botanic’
Storytelling in the Supersized Forest
Please visit the Wondertale wiki to be astounded by the creativity and imagination of young writers across Scotland (Glow username and password required)
Wendy, Johanna – thank you sincerely – what an inspiration for all of us, Anna
Wendy Woolfson, a storyteller from Glasgow used Johanna Basford’s exhibtion to tell stories. She looked carefully at 3 of Johanna’s wallpaper designs. ‘Botanic Crazy’, ‘Peking’ and ‘Hamlet’. You can view these on Johanna’s website.
The three designs were combined to create an incredible ‘Wondertale’.
Learners across Scotland then explored the exhibtion and began to create a collaborative story with Wendy. Johanna’s boat inspired a flood of ideas and an octopus caused chaos reeking havoc below the boat! Many of the suggestions involved superhero animals, bees, penguins and mermaids. Wendy used ‘Wonderbeasts’ to help generate ideas. You can explore ‘Wonderbeasts’ here. Johanna has also created a PDF of Wonderbeasts which can be downloaded from her site and this could help to inspire your Wondertale.
Wendy took us on an incredible storytelling adventure yesterday. To listen to her stories, undertake the warm up activity and begin to breakdown how she created her stories you can watch the Glow TV event again by clicking here. (Glow username and password required)
Wendy, thank you so much!
Before and after the live event we recorded Wendy telling more stories in the gallery and we will share these and behind the scene photographs from the event later this week.
Creativity challenge 1 – Create a Wondertale!
Visit Johanna Basford’s Gallery of work.
Look carefully at a design that ‘catches your eye’. Why does the design appeal to you? Look carefully at the detail.
Capture – Describe the design in words. Describe the design as a whole and then describe sections and details within those.
Create a ‘Wondertale’ by imagining you have shrunk and are small enough to walk around the design. Describe what you might see, hear, feel, smell and even dare to taste. Your ‘Wondertale’ might be a poem, story, rap or song.
SHARE – You will earn the ‘Wondertales’ badge if you upload your Wondertale and any wordbanks you have created to the Look, Capture, Create Wiki. Please leave comments and feedback for each other on the wiki.
The first 10 schools to sign up for 2 or more Creativity Challenges will receive rewards!
Creativity Challenge 1
Monday 13th May at 10am, live from Dundee Contemporary Arts
Learners will have the opportunity to tour Johanna Basford’s exhibition ‘Wonderlands’ at Dundee Contemporary Arts through storytelling. Johanna draws intricate designs and the storyteller will model how to look carefully for detail, capture those details in words and create a Wondertale!
Creativity Challenge 2
Week 2 of the Look, Capture, Create project coincides with ‘Walk to School Week’ and ‘Scotland’s Nature Festival’. This Glow TV broadcast gives learners the opportunity to journey on an inky adventure with the Scottish illustrator/designer Johanna Basford to learn about her art techniques, what inspires her designs and her success commercially.
Johanna will share how she looks for detail and inspiration in nature, how she captures this and creates beautiful hand drawn inky designs.
She will share her
Johanna will invite the young people of Scotland to become a Co-Creator by drawing their own inky picture of a creature which lives on land or in water to create a Glow stampede of fish, flora or fauna which reflects the beauty and diversity of wildlife in Scotland. The creature could be real or imaginary.
Creativity Challenge 3
During week 3 of the ‘Look, capture, create’ interdisciplinary learning experience we will be joined by a scientist/mathematician from Dundee University live in the Dundee Botanic Gardens to learn more about the importance of Scottish Biodiversity and how we can do simple things to help nature survive and grow. We will look in particular at the types and purposes of the beautiful patterns nature creates.
Creativity Challenge 4
For the final ‘Look, capture, create’ Glow TV broadcast join the learning team at Dundee Contemporary Arts to explore the visual elements – line, shape, form, colour, tone, pattern and texture to create a design to promote Scottish biodiversity. And watch as we reveal and celebrate the Glow Stampede of Scottish fish, flora and fauna, your collaborative artwork.
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