Green Turtle and Black-faced Spoonbill:The Subject of Endangered Species of Picture Book Creation / 綠海龜和黑湯匙:以瀕臨絕種動物為主題的繪本創作研究

碩士 / 國立臺中教育大學 / 美術學系碩士班 / 99 / Picture books have been widely applied to teaching and parent-children education and are indispensable for modern life. In addition to complementing early childhood education, picture book is helpful in inspiring children’s creativity and aesthetics as well. Since the environment is changing rapidly, the ecology on earth also experiences a great difference. Therefore, the study is expected to integrate the creation with our island so as to highlight the issues of environment and endangered animals and to emphasize the importance of ecological conservation by means of warm and lovely stories. As for the materials, the study adopts acrylic colors and collage to not only give the picture book a totally different taste, but present the various colors and lines of animals in the wild.
The first chapter is the introduction, describing the goal and meaning of creation. Moreover, the study explains how to integrate ecology with education and arts as the basic argument, the selection of study scope, and the method as well as steps of the creation. In addition, the study interprets the connotation of important key words and terms. The Second chapter is concerning the literature review of endangered animals. From the perspectives of ecology, natural conservation, and environmental science, the study aims at observing the changes and the trace of ecology on earth from different viewpoints. By compiling the data, the study is expected to obtain the profound knowledge concerning the lifestyle of green turtles and black-faced spoonbills and to discover the close relationship between environment and the habitats of animals so that they may serve as the foundation for the looks of animals and the story background. The Third chapter is concerning the techniques applied to creation and the study as well as analysis of materials. In addition to understanding the history of collage, the study compares various picture books to discuss how different styles are presented with the technique of collage so that the researcher may create a unique decoupage style. These two picture books are created in the study; one is about ‘Black spoon—black-faced spoonbill’ and the other is concerning ‘Green turtle.’ The animal characters are personified in the stories, which take place in Taiwan. Furthermore, the picture books are aimed at depicting the relationship between endangered animals, humans, and the environment. Finally, in Fourth chapter, the study explains its ideas and the process of creation, from the framework of story, material selection to the techniques it adopted.

Key words: picture book, collage, endangered animal, green turtle, black-faced spoonbill

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/098NTCTC236028
Date January 2010
CreatorsHuang Yu-Chu, 黃郁筑
ContributorsHsiao, Bao-Ling, 蕭寶玲
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format98

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