Creative Writing Exercises - Leicestershire County Council

These exercises focus:
on noticing and extracting details from artworks and objects to inform creative writing.
Hints and tips:
Describing from memory and describing from looking directly will produce very different
observations, and it is instructive to compare these.
To render vivid ‘real’ details it is best to describe, for example, an actual umbrella in front
of you, rather than describing it from memory.
The ‘Look At This’ exercise is particularly effective with landscapes, or interiors, without
figures or characters within them. The empty landscape urges us to invent figures and look
for evidence of their presence.
Who?
This set of exercises works together well.
They are more suited to older children and adults.
Negro Boy in a Landscape, Michael Ayrton
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