Hi, my name is Naomi Zouwer
and I'm a visual artist based in Canberra.
Before I start,
I'd like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land,
Ngunnawal, the Ngunawal and the Ngambri people,
and pay my respects to their elders
past, present and emerging.
Today we're going to look at the Greek exhibition
and be inspired by the vases
and the beautiful illustrations on the vases
to make some of our own drawings
that we're goning to put into a zine.
It'll be like a little mini Greek graphic novel.
Now I'm gonna to show you how to make a zine.
All you need is a piece of paper.
It can be A3, A4. I'm using A3 one here.
You also need scissors.
And if you make your folds really nice that always helps.
Let's go, I'll show you how it's done.
Okay, now let's look at how we make a zine.
You take a piece of paper and fold it in half.
(playful music playing)
(paper rustling)
Okay.
And then we fold it in half the other way.
(paper rustling)
Okay, so now we have it in eight. Four, sorry.
Okay, now we're going to fold it in half again, both ways.
So this way.
(paper rustling)
Okay, so we have eight rectangles now.
Okay, the next thing we're gonna do
is put a little cut in it.
So, I'm going to go from the middle to this point here.
(paper rustling)
Okay, let's do that.
(cutting paper snipping)
(paper rustling)
Okay, I've made a little pair of shorts.
So now I have a piece of paper with a cut in the middle.
Okay, now watch this tricky bit.
Fold it in half like this,
and I just kind of close it together.
(paper rustling)
To make a little book.
And that is how you make a zine.
Let's have a look at these pages now.
I'm just going to number them so you can see how it works.
One, two, three,
four, five,
six, seven, eight.
Okay, watch this magic.
(paper rustling)
Open it up.
(paper rustling)
And look at that,
they're all on the one side.
So the great thing about this is once you've gone in
and put your drawings in,
you can photocopy it and make hundreds of them.
Ancient Greeks decorated their vases
with all sorts of images of people playing sport,
doing exercise or playing games.
I thought I'd base my illustrations off what I do
in my daily life.
So I was thinking about, what are some things I like to do?
I like to go walking up the mountain.
I like to walk my dog.
I like to do exercise with my friends.
I like to go dancing and I like to dress up.
Yeah, so I'm gonna try to draw those down as ideas
that I could turn into my own Greek graphic novel.
And now we've got our zine,
let's start putting our pictures in.
Now, I've got - this is my rough copy.
So I know what I want to put in there.
I think the front might be a couple.
And so then I'll choose the other pictures that I put in.
So, let's put that on fast forward and do that.
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Now that I've drawn my zine now in pencil,
I'm going to go over it with some different size black pens
and a brown pencil.
So it looks like something you'd see,
almost on a Greek vase.
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What are some things that you like to do at home?
Or what are some games you play or sports
or things that you think would be good
for this kind of drawing?
It can be anything that you like.
Have fun with this activity.
It's really about you having a good go at it
and just seeing where it takes you.