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Building the story-telling chops of students in life drawing is one of our objectives (gestural narrative). Recently I read about using headlines to stimulate the mood for a pose. A professor in Rhetoric and Composition suggested that Onion Headlines were quite concise stories so I collected a list of Onion headlines and gave them to the model.

Here are a few that the model selected to set the mood of the poses.

• Insane Clown Posse Gets Ride to Concert From Mom
• Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race of Skeleton People
• North Dakota Not Heard from in 48 Hours
• And also a real headline: Glamorous rogues, Charming gangsters

These are all done with the same model, poses, and theme prompt of North Dakota not heard from in 48 hours. I am proud of the range of interpretations and look forward to more adventures in life drawing and creative writing.

I told the creative writing instructor about the change this technique had on the class and she said she would assign 6 word stories to her writing class. I will use the prompts from her class in my class and hope to create a great installation of the collaboration for a hall exhibition.

Stay tuned for 6 word stories.