Visualising Workshop

At the beginning of the day we were asked to draw an object. I chose to draw my keys. We had 10 minutes  for the sketch. After that we had to produce several BLIND CONTOUR drawing exercises where we DIDN'T LOOK AT THE PAPER. The first exercise was to draw the object without looking the paper. The second was again a blind drawing but also with the opposite hand-the left for me-. The last exercise was to draw the object again but this time using both hands in the same time. All the exercises had a time limit of 3 minutes and we had to draw as many as possible. When we finished we saw all the other student's sketches and then we discussed the positive and the negative elements. All the sketches without looking the paper were more interesting than the first ones. Above are some of my sketches.

After the lunch time we made several collages on A6 postcards using images from magazines and newspapers but before that Darren show us a powerpoint presentation about collage and we discussed works of many different artists like Hannah Hoch, Alan Fletcher, Sara Fanelli and Martin O'Neil. For me the most artist was Alex Williamson. We produced total 9 different collages each student but he had to select between the themes above:
Composition
Editing
Contrast
Rhythm
Texture
Repurposing
Juxtaposition
Surrealism
Narrative
Humour
For the first we had 10 mins, then three collages in 10 mins and finally five in 15 mins. I selected for the blog my 4 most interesting collages.

Alex Williamson