Old Man on whose nose

           There was an Old Man on whose nose 

There was an Old Man on whose nose, 

Most birds of the air could repose;

But they all flew away At the closing of day, 

Which relieved that Old Man and his nose 

Each of us had to sketch a different version of the limerick character. The old man's nose was the character we choose. Following a few iterations of those illustrations, our group set out to investigate various nose shapes and how best to depict the action of the birds. The strong motion of the birds in our initial version overwhelmed the nose's shape. The nose in the second version was much more extended and clearly defined. Afterwards, we made an effort to work with the birds' movements and the nose's shape so that they blended together rather of appearing to be two distinct parts.

Following that, we were to use a net to construct a structure based on our drawings and our understanding of the limerick. Our goal was to represent the drawing's spirit in the structure. The net was folded in some areas, pinched in others, hung from many locations, and lowered in some places to create space and volumes within the structure. to ultimately create a livable area. This lesson taught us how to represent a piece of prose as a picture and how the material responds to various conditions.