Léna Carrara Illustration
05.26 Illustrated Music
Creation of an illustrated program for a cello concert.
Each piece performed was accompanied by an illustration and a short text: several mediums (colored pencils, watercolor, charcoal, fineliner) were used to best reflect the character of each of the pieces. The images create an entry point into classical music for people less familiar with it, providing them with a visual aid to better imagine stories related to the pieces they hear.
12.25 Improvisation Box
Creation of music teaching materials in the form of a games box, inspired by children's magic sets filled with all kinds of magic tricks. All the games share a common theme : Improvisation, and were assembled to encourage students' curiosity and interest in this musical practice. Approximately half of the box's contents come from existing board games and illustrated books with modified rules, while the rest were created specifically for this project.
02.26 Live-drawing
Live drawing during a flute recital.
The theme of the concert was the relation between music and images, presented during the concert in multiple forms, depending on each piece: I created the drawing during Hindemith's Sonata for Flute and Piano. I based this illustration on several themes. First, the composer, Paul Hindemith, enjoyed drawing a lot and had somehow a predilection for caricatured drawings of lions. Also, the first and third movements of the sonata are fast and joyful, while the second movement, is the opposite and evokes war, in a much darker tone. In discussion with the musician, we decided to propose a drawing in three stages:
- First movement: Two lion cubs playing together, line drawing, 5 minutes
- Second movement: their father, lying on his side, dead, line drawing, 5 minutes
- Third movement: watercolor coloring, 4 minutes
04.22-06.24 Concert Posters
For three consecutive years, I designed the concert poster for a children's choir in the canton of Fribourg: Les Chardonnerets. Each poster was created after many discussions with the choir director, in order to best reflect the theme of each concert. This is why each poster has a very different style.



















