Friday 4 January 2008

H.C.Andersen Fairy Tales in Frank Miller style

Since I teach a class of F10’s, I decided to put them up for a challenge. The idea isn’t new, I had already done this a couple of years ago, and it came out quite well.

At the time, when it was done, the students had only one story, entitled The Wicked Prince by Hans Christian Andersen. The Tale is about a Mighty Prince that ends up defying the church and God himself.

There’s a scene where the prince builds a ship with canons and it’s risen in to the sky pulled by eagles to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. They fire upon an angel but the bullets rebound and the angel lets a drop of blood fall on the ship.

This drags down the ship as the blood is of hundreds of weights. The prince almost perished in the event but was intent to defy the Lord.

The end of the tale is quite humorous and the Prince is defeated. In this Art project, they get to choose a story, and select a description that may visually appeal to them for their Interpretational study.

This project will have an outcome in about six weeks or so. Let’s see what happens

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