Had a couple of Drawing Buddies sessions at The Pheonix Centre, following 'looking outwards' from the Waterloo Park Spontaneous City (what the birds would see) this has taken a couple of forms, drawing through the circular view finders and growing drawings of seed heads on paper from A6 - A1. Drawers are most keen on stretching their drawing skills and have told me that they like being 'led' and taken out of their comfort zone. I love how all of the drawings sit together as a collection. I read 'The Hare with Amber Eyes' by Edmund De Vaal and he said something about a beauty that happens by chance in the production of multiples, because the artists ego is removed (will try to find the actual quote). I wonder if the same thing can happen when there are many contributers to one collective work. Sometimes it is hard to tell who did which drawing by the end of the session. A piece, or at least a direction, does seem to be emerging, although it is not yet concrete enough to describe and is tenuously held together by 220 gsm smooth surface cartridge paper and ideas that are born out of chat, suggestion of the week, "We could draw beaks" came from Anne so we hope to chase that one up at Castle Museum Natural History displays in a couple of weeks time.
I love these drawings.
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