The first day of the
course, we tried gestalt drawing, which means a feeling or spirit or persona.
The basic idea of the day was to throw us out of our comfort zone and become
less precious about our work. We started mark making on A0 paper, and then
moved to other people’s work and turned it upside down, either randomly
mark-making or trying to see and add to things we could pick out on the paper.
Here’s how mine went
(badly)…
I’ve done this sort of
drawing before so it wasn’t a shock to me to just go a little crazy and ‘ruin’
other people’s work, in fact it probably suits me more as I find it pretty
difficult to sit down with a still life and reproduce it accurately, whereas
expressive mark-making is enjoyable, and you can really get into it and let
your subconscious take over.
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