Creative Writing Exercises - Leicestershire County Council

These exercises focus:
on imitating and playing with different formal ways of writing about art.
Rather than being about imagining yourself into the painting or artwork, these exercises
are about imagining yourself (or a character) looking at a painting or artwork.
These exercises can also reveal the creative value of writing about a work of art that
we don’t like.
Hints and tips:
These exercises give a good opportunity to play with humour and comedy
(although it is possible to produce serious creative work also).
The ‘Art Critic’ links particularly well with the ‘Being the Painter’ exercise (in this section).
It is effective to focus on the kind of mental attitude a critic might have towards a work that
they like, or perhaps don’t like. (It is possible to compare this attitude to the artist’s passion
mentioned in ‘Being the Painter’).
For ‘Blurb’ you could write in the style of a movie trailer or book blurb.
Who?
This is more for older children and adults, although it is possible to adapt for younger children.
If you link the ‘Art Critic’ exercise with the ‘Being the Painter’ exercise you could have half
a group being the artists and the other half being the critics. This could arouse some very
interesting creative debate.
Muggin Mugs by
Ray Davis and
Daniel Moore,
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