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| WIP: Another Guest Art Journal Entry Inspired by George Orwell's '1984'.... |
Day 9 of the '29 Faces' May Challenge. 20 more Faces to go....
Yep, you guessed it. Another student art journal entry. As of tonight, I have by now begun entries in exactly half of my students' journals. However, I still have 5 more to go to even start something in -- and in fact NONE of them can be declared officially finished yet at this point, being as that they are ALL still Works in Progress. But, I'm getting there....!
Selecting from my literature class book list to use as inspiration for this journal wasn't the easiest -- because this is actually the last student for whom the list applies (all the remaining art journals are from a different class of younger students who did not read the same books). But finally I'd narrowed it down to three titles: George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" (I could just imagine Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins), Steinbecks' "Of Mice and Men", and "1984". I did recall that this student seemed in particular to enjoy the book, '1984', and our discussions of it -- and so it won out. As such, we have here as my Day 9 Face a quickie start on a portrait of the story's protagonist, the much depressed and desperate Winston Smith. Winston's existence is not an easy one, living (if it can be called that) as he does in some utterly grim dystopian future state, under an entirely soul-crushing totalitarian rule. And yet at its heart is a love story.....
While I can't say I'm entirely satisfied with this fast, preliminary portrait of Winston here, I'm reminding myself it's still only a WIP -- and besides, it'll do for now in order to at least get this entry posted so I can call it a day. But when I get back to working on it in soon however, I'm thinking I will need to make 'my' Winston look considerably older, and a whole lot less attractive.....