Morning, sleepyheads.  Time to shut down the Minecraft server, press pause on the anime, stop rolling your eyes ironically, text Your Highness to make sure she’s 1) up, and 2) practicing her incredible microwaving skills, and get to work!

Steps:

1.  Find a place where you can focus and where you will not be interrupted. 

2.  Clear off your work space.

3.  Prepare your materials: comp book, pencil, bravery. 

4.  Below is an illustration by Margaret Jones from The Mabinogion – you may remember from our work in Term One that this text is the basis of all early Welsh mythology.  In those tales, Gwydion is very different from Lloyd Alexander’s hero – here, he is a villain!

Your job it to either zoom in on one aspect of this illustration and copy it in detail, or to try to do a rough sketch of the entire image. 

When you are ready, press “Play” on the music link below: the superlative Claudio Abbado conducting the mind-boggling Lucerne Festival Orchestra in the Prelude to Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. Once the music starts, keep your pencil in motion until it stops (approx. 10 minutes).  Don’t get hypnotized by the video – you can always go back and watch again after.

If you’d prefer a large version of the image, right-click (or control-click) here to open a new tab after you click “play” below.

You do not need to email me your drawing; I may ask you to hold it up during our morning check-in.

This illustration might also provide inspiration for various aspects of your The Black Cauldron  work.  How awesome is that swoop of the Milky Way?

See you in Teams, Team.