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Alison Smith: monsters

2012-02-14T21:28:00.001Z

Alison on Twitter

creature doodles and drawings

2012-02-14T20:34:00.000Z

Ayesha Tasneef Farooqui - creatures as doodles and decoration

Zara Hussain - creatures observed from photos and from life

Ben Brown: sketchbooks

2012-02-14T16:57:00.000Z

Ben's sketchbooks. See more at his twitter feed

Kat Sorrell: comic book style narrative

2012-02-14T16:35:00.001Z

Ramzan Alyas: embroidered drawings

2012-02-09T19:40:00.003Z

Carl Thomas: life drawing=other ideas

2012-02-09T19:29:00.000Z

Heather Kolasska: ink drawings

2012-02-09T19:21:00.001Z

skull and head studies

2012-02-09T19:18:00.001Z

tonal studies

2012-02-09T19:12:00.002Z

Liam Howard: reverse sketchbooks

2012-02-09T19:10:00.000Z

Lisette Berndt, aka Thoka Maer: illustrator

2012-01-30T14:49:00.002Z

I'm struck by the quiet subtlety of the drawings / animations of Lisette Berndt, aka Thoka Maer. Her drawings are deceptively simple and spacious

infra 7 from Thoka Maer on Vimeo.

animated illustration : thoka maer
music : max richter : infra 7

one of a series of her gifs found via a favourite blog brown paper bag: click on the drawing to activate the gif animation

found drawings: sky and wall

2012-01-29T01:12:00.000Z

Rachel Whiteread: Drawings

2012-01-28T23:31:00.002Z

Rachel Whiteread is renowned for her evocative large-scale sculptures, but drawing has always remained one of her core activities.

These collages and drawings provide a fascinating and intimate insight into the creative process behind Whiteread's work. While her sculptures are often large-scale and involve a team of fabricators, these paper works provide a more personal, mobile counterpoint. Nevertheless, they also share many of the themes familiar from her public commissions: texture and surface; void and presence; and the subtle observation of human traces in everyday life. (source)

Leeds, UK = drawing

2012-01-18T20:14:00.001Z

much drawing to see in Leeds.....

Henry Moore Institute

Tacita Dean

Blind Pan

Outside Gallery 4, ... a set of drawings from 2004 titled 'Blind Pan (five monochrome landscapes)' are displayed. A found black and white photograph of an unidentified landscape is the backdrop for directions that map out a journey. Written by hand by the artist, as if chalk on a blackboard, the filmic instructions narrate the journey of Oedipus and Antigone through the wilderness in a storyboard for an unmade film. (source)

'Blind Pan (details) 2004

Leeds Art Gallery

Northern Art Prize (The winner will be announced at Leeds Art Gallery on 19 January 2012)

education / schools area

folded paper pieces based on the football shirt works of Leo Fitzmaurice

interactive chalkboard wall based on his continuous horizon line work

Sculpture Study Galleries

3D drawing

Shelagh Cluett

Drawing in Space
Institute Exhibition
1st December 2011 - 11th March 2012

Shelagh Cluett's early sculptures operate as dynamic three-dimensional drawings, ranging from ambitious, room-scale installations, constructed from linear and planar elements to elegant, vertical structures crafted from wire, thin steel, aluminium and brass and copper rods.

Drawing in Space brings together sculptures, drawings, sketchbooks and photographic documentation of Cluett's work from the late 1960s to the early 1980s (source)

Shelagh standing next to 'Flux IV' (1979)

drawn cd covers (ongoing)

2012-01-16T13:46:00.000Z

Manya Donaque: cracks (found drawings)

2012-01-10T13:27:00.002Z

objects en masse: IKAS Art Fair, Bilbao, Spain

2012-01-05T17:12:00.000Z

tone: IKAS Art Fair, Bilbao, Spain

2012-01-05T16:38:00.001Z

line and collage: IKAS Art Fair, Bilbao, Spain

2012-01-05T16:32:00.004Z

coiled collage

line and watercolour: IKAS Art Fair, Bilbao, Spain

2012-01-05T16:27:00.000Z

3D paperworks: IKAS Art Fair, Bilbao, Spain

2012-01-05T16:06:00.002Z

IKAS Art Fair, Bilbao, Spain pt2

2012-01-03T21:54:00.001Z

this wall piece was added to daily over 4 days

floor lines

Liam Howard: head lines

2012-01-03T20:26:00.006Z

Liam Howard: male and female studies

2012-01-03T20:22:00.004Z

line drawings

2012-01-03T20:10:00.000Z

continuous line drawings

semi-continuous line....stop, start, ink dots ...reverse side

IKAS Art Fair, Bilbao, Spain

2012-01-03T19:21:00.000Z

IKAS Art Fair 2011

ink in water: music video

2011-12-28T16:53:00.000Z

found drawings: Bilbao

2011-12-25T20:20:00.001Z

beach tracks

and shadows....

subway shadow drawings

2011-12-01T20:57:00.000Z

drawing studio shadow lines

2011-11-23T09:40:00.003Z

Matisse: stick drawings

2011-11-22T19:53:00.000Z

excellent link here

Matisse stick drawing

student drawings completed with charcoal taped to the end of 3-6ft (91-182cm) bamboo lengths:

accidental exquisite corpse

2011-11-22T19:00:00.000Z

A drawing class where the aim was to think about drawing parts of the body, rather than had been the norm: drawing the full length of the form. It seemed obvious to experiment with the outcomes to make 'new' collaborative drawings. They suggested the Exquisite Corpse collective assemblies of the Surrealists:

Ann Clare: maps and geometrics

2011-11-20T14:47:00.001Z

Ann Clare's drawings are concerned with mapping. Many of her works deal with subject matter loosely governed under the title 'psycho-geography'. She also deals with sound montages as part of a wider art practice. She was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2007.

02 You are Here (Triangle, Manchester) by annenza

magic lantern slides

2011-11-06T11:33:00.001Z

Not strictly drawing I know but.....
These magic lantern images are jewels of colour and line and story telling

where?: Bradford 1 Gallery / Impressions Gallery

life drawing room skeleton

2011-10-26T21:22:00.001+01:00

recommended reading: Anatomy For the Artist - Sarah Simblet

book review

marker pen animation

2011-10-25T23:35:00.002+01:00

hedgehog drawings

2011-10-16T21:16:00.003+01:00

Capturing tracks made by wildlife - hedgehogs ..... and field mice

Alexander Park, Manchester

2 days later ....

Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield

2011-10-16T20:25:00.002+01:00

A new gallery named for sculptor Barbara Hepworth:

Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) was born in Wakefield on 10 January 1903... article continues

There are many of her drawings as well as her sculptures to see

A sculpture gallery made all the more special because of its collection of works on paper, paintings and artists' tools too

Henry Moore

John Piper

Other drawings:

Architect David Chipperfield's design for the gallery

the weir / river it's built next to:

and children invited to draw too....

drawing experiments

2011-10-12T18:59:00.001+01:00

Some of the many techniques, (re)looking, experimenting, playing, making, collaborating etc completed in the first few weeks of an Art Foundation (pre-degree), one year course of study

frottage / wrapped objects

collaborative / paper roll / paraphernalia (shoes)

exploded ink filled balloons

mark making / objects

multiples

MMU MA show 2011: red

2011-10-01T21:20:00.000+01:00

MMU MA show 2011: blue

2011-10-01T21:14:00.000+01:00

MMU MA show 2011 (x4)

2011-10-01T21:08:00.002+01:00

MMU MA show 2011: wallpaper

2011-10-01T21:01:00.003+01:00

MMU MA show 2011: grouping

2011-10-01T20:56:00.002+01:00

Rorschach ink blots

2011-09-22T08:14:00.004+01:00

The Rorschach ink blot used in a music video:

The Rorschach test (German pronunciation: [ˈʁoːɐʃax]; also known as the Rorschach inkblot test, the Rorschach technique, or simply theinkblot test) is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychologicalinterpretation, complex algorithms, or both. (source)

hand drawn egg box label

2011-09-11T16:47:00.001+01:00

Eggs as gift in a recycled, re-labelled eggbox

- a made to measure, hand drawn, hand fitted label.

I find this so pleasing. Thanks Ann.

eggs c/o the Whitland chickens

Copenhagen charcoal mural

2011-09-11T11:24:00.004+01:00

These drawings were in a busy warehouse area of Copenhagen. Delivery lorries drove by and workers / passers by left these easily rubbed away charcoal drawings alone. Their narrative, their importance, their permanent impermanence all impressed me

cut outs and shadows

2011-09-05T18:38:00.000+01:00

animal drawings and small pencil studies

2011-09-05T18:35:00.000+01:00

paper forms

2011-08-30T19:43:00.000+01:00

multiple origami forms

single forms: bagged origami frog

projected drawings

2011-08-30T19:29:00.001+01:00

mixed media drawings

2011-08-30T19:25:00.001+01:00

mixed media inc. carbon deposits, oil

embroidered drawings

propped

AO+ ---> A4 graphite drawings

2011-08-30T18:56:00.001+01:00

3D line forms: re-configured pencils & resin lines

2011-08-30T18:37:00.000+01:00

de / re-constructed coloured pencils

coloured cast resin

3D line form

2011-08-30T18:23:00.001+01:00

paper measurements

2011-08-30T10:25:00.002+01:00

Prompted by a cropped word photo, thought it was time to
add some paper sizes / measurements information here:

source

quire¹

1. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a set of 24 or 25 sheets of paper; a twentieth of a ream

2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding)

a. four sheets of paper folded once to form a section of 16 pages

b. a section or gathering

3. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a set of all the sheets in a book

[C15 quayer, from Old French quaier, from Latin quaternī four at a time, from quater four times] (source)

Writing paper measurements: 25 sheets = 1 quire; 500 sheets = 20 quires = 1 ream; 1,000 sheets = 40 quires = 2 reams = 1 bundle; 5,000 sheets = 200 quires = 10 reams = 5 bundles = 1 bale

'Short' paper measurements^[1]: 24 sheets = 1 'short' quire; 480 sheets = 20 'short' quires = 1 'short' ream; 960 sheets = 40 'short' quires = 2 'short' reams = 1 'short' bundle; 4,800 sheets = 200 'short' quires = 10 'short' reams = 5 'short' bundles = 1 'short' bale

Posters and printing measurements: 516 sheets (= 21½ 'short' quires) = 1 printer's ream; 1,032 sheets = 2 printer's reams = 1 printer's bundle; 5,070 sheets = 5 printer's bundles = 1 printer's bale; (source)

cigarette paper, photocopying, layering

2011-08-16T23:53:00.000+01:00

cigarette paper, OHP acetate, photocopying, layering

Karla Smart: photo drawings

2011-08-16T23:44:00.000+01:00

Jasia Little: bed linen drawings

2011-08-16T22:51:00.000+01:00

illustrator's ideas and research

2011-08-16T22:45:00.003+01:00

sketchbook

cigarette paper

research

drawing book

2011-08-16T22:40:00.002+01:00

Catherine Westgarth: the male erotic, exaggerated & as transcription

2011-07-24T19:15:00.001+01:00

sketchbook playfulness - the male form under scrutiny

Degas' woman washing becomes man washing

light lines: United Visual Artists

2011-07-23T21:07:00.000+01:00

Speed of Light - United Visual Artists from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

Kabaret's Prophecy from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

Echo from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

United Visual Artist website

black on white animation

2011-07-23T20:18:00.001+01:00

whiteboard animation

2011-07-23T20:12:00.000+01:00

speed drawing

2011-07-13T00:37:00.008+01:00

Win, Lose or Draw(1980s US tv show)

or ..... online / interactive version: isketch .... play now!

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils

2011-07-05T13:17:00.000+01:00

Dolor

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplication of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate gray standard faces.

Theodore Roethke
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Jackie Raybone's political landscapes: ART EDUCATION: A RIGHT NOT A PRIVILEGE

2011-06-29T19:09:00.000+01:00

From TUC March 2011

Interview with Jackie Raybone here

Artist's website

Gillian Cass: Norman characters

2011-06-29T18:27:00.001+01:00

Gillian uses Norman caricatures to tell contemporary narratives, often autobiographical

large scale taped floor drawing

envelope used to echo Lichtenstein dots

Sally Wilford: people, faces, experiments

2011-06-29T16:09:00.000+01:00

Sally Wilford: tape works

2011-06-29T16:01:00.003+01:00

Sally Wilford: line works

2011-06-29T15:55:00.000+01:00

projector drawing

2011-06-26T20:58:00.001+01:00

Anthony McCall's projector drawings

watercolours at Tate Britain

2011-06-26T20:16:00.004+01:00

Exhibition at Tate Britain until 26 August 2011

Interviews here + Guardian newspaper review

shadow lines (ii)

2011-06-04T11:00:00.000+01:00

shadow lines

2011-06-02T19:35:00.000+01:00

scale

2011-05-31T00:09:00.006+01:00

The camera evens up the scale of things. Here the drawings are on cigarette paper (Jessica Convery) and on large fabriano paper (Liz Tolan). Only a step back, revealing the studio, begins to show the scale difference.

This may be important when showing work - the drawings' scale, and context may change without an indicator, a measure

Jessica Convery: plasticine creatures (3D)

2011-05-30T23:28:00.001+01:00

Jessica Convery: plasticine creatures (2D)

2011-05-30T23:09:00.002+01:00

studio creatures

2011-05-30T23:00:00.002+01:00

not all drawings but drawn from drawings ...

drawdrawdraw on pinterest

2011-05-23T22:12:00.004+01:00

Enid, the Communications Manager at the visual blog pinterest.com got in touch recently. I'd been using pinterest for a few months: to pick up on image links for this blog; for twitter visuals; for work; for storage and research.

The 'clean' interface, ease of use, and friendly community it attracts, have made it a pleasure to be part of.

I was delighted when Enid emailed me with:

I'm Enid from Pinterest, waving hello to the UK and wondering if you'd like to be featured on our blog! We're starting a series to highlight more of our amazing community members called "My Last 5 Pins."

Just send me the 5 links to your favorite pins and your descriptions (or even your actual 5 most recent pins) and describe why you pinned it or why the pin represents your taste. Also send me a short bio about what you do professionally, where you live, interests, etc. I'll let you know when I post it to our blog; I think our readers would love to get a small window into who you are and check out your blog!

I did. The blog feature appeared today:

Depending on who you follow, you can get an entirely different experience on Pinterest each day. Sometimes scrolling makes me feel like I'm in an art museum, other times, a dream-home. No matter what, I'm learning something new thanks to someone I've never met in person. Pretty cool. But one day, I decided I had to know more about the endlessly inspiring pins of "drawdrawdraw" and asked for some insight into how she uses Pinterest. The full story definitely didn't disappoint and neither did the link to her own art blog.

Helen: I'm an Art Lecturer (specialising in BA honors Drawing) at Bradford School of Arts & Media, based in the north of England. This collection of images helps me do my job; it helps me to see others' ideas and innovations within art & design; it means I can post my work & others' work and have a direct link with students whenever I / they please.

My 'taste' is limited to 9 boards (so they fit on most computer screens at one go), and were initially put in place to share any drawing based research I found online. Other board categories were added because I couldn't resist saving what I found here, and there, and everywhere.

Apart from drawing, my other main interest is photography - composition, the ordinary, the overlooked made note of.

A selection from my boards:

1. Chicken in a bucket, 1944. The early drawings of Lucien Freud remain a favourite with me - slight distortion of form, sure and true line, great compositions.

2. Drawing top by Thomas Forsyth. Anyone can draw with the right kit. These wooden tops made by Tom Forsyth are a joy to play with - beautifully balanced, choreographed mark-makers.

3. In ordinary places. Walking around my drawing studio and an easel's shadow makes its own drawing - grey on grey.

4. Found drawings. I found many of these chalk figures around Krakow, Poland. They felt like lost souls from past conflicts eerily present.

5. Monur opening by Monja Gentschow. The immediacy of saving others' ideas on Pinterest is a continual source of research / inspiration. This image helped me make a final decision for my own exhibition in January 2011.

Link to original pinterest (on tumblr) blog posting here

Enid's pinterest images here

Pinterest on twitter

more studio details

2011-05-23T14:38:00.001+01:00

studio findings / details

2011-05-23T14:05:00.002+01:00

in-store wall drawings

2011-05-19T22:59:00.000+01:00

Out shopping I saw these giant drawings on the shop wall. The escalators in the last photo give a sense of scale ....

Fiona Taylor: graphite surfaces

2011-05-18T23:13:00.000+01:00

Fiona Taylor on twitter

Breakfast invite - Yu-Chen Wang - Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester

2011-05-13T23:38:00.002+01:00

Artist Yu-Chen Wang has been developing work over 3 months during her residency at the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester. Working across the mediums of video, drawing and installation Yu-Chen has been looking into Manchester's industrial past; the history, architecture, machinery, and stories, also responding directly to her residency space.

As part of that residency she played host to 3 breakfast sessions. I was kindly invited to one of them. We sat, ate, and talked about our various art practices; all the while surrounded by Yu-Chen's intricate drawings:

photo: c/o Chinese Arts Centre

Yu-Chen Wang will be showcasing the work she has been developing throughout her 3 months at the Chinese Arts Centre between 11-14 May, with a special evening on 12 May 5.30-7.30pm.
See the artist's residency blog here

Zathoon Hussain: dress, pattern, sew

2011-05-03T20:06:00.002+01:00

Jessica Convery: ticket drawings

2011-05-03T19:53:00.000+01:00

Roza Zaleska: suspended bags

2011-05-03T19:20:00.000+01:00

Roza Zaleska - detail