some more photos from emporium sturday 29th drawing session

Saturday 29/05 at the Emporium

Again we put up paper on the wall and began to draw with the company of Barnaby. Mike decided to draw strangely Mexican figures, Barnaby did a world of blobby beings and I drew a tubey thing. Later people came in, including a woman called Santa Maria who is an art teacher and said she was told at art college that she "shouldn't" draw things realistically. She agreed that drawing has no rules and hopefully she will come to do a workshop one Saturday.

Here are some photos of the few hours we were there today.

These drawings below are consequences drawings. Draw a head, fold the paper and leave the lines for a neck then pass the drawing to the next person, they draw the body, pass it on and the next person draws the legs, then feet. The result is a VERY strange creature.

Ria Undercover was very imaginative in her drawings and can remember film plots in incredible detail.

we shall be at Full Circle every Tuesday from 6pm to 7.30pm to be doing drawing games and projects. We are going to go out and about, drawing things in St. Pauls, inventing new species in drawing games, drawing things we cant see but can only feel and many more things.

three consequences drawings by Ria Undercover, Jackson (mike) and Neckback Jonathan

Makaies squiggle drawing

makaies drawing of tree 2

Makaie did two very splendid observational drawings of trees outside. He also ran to check how the tree was moving in the wind. I like how he got the movement of the tree in the drawings.

tree, by Makaie

That one is Makaie's drawing not looking at the paper, of Jonny (Neckback)

Makaies drawing

First workshop for kids in Full Circle, St.Pauls 25th May, 6pm to 7.30pm

We sat and played the "not looking at the paper whilst drawing the other person and making sure they're not looking at their paper game" with Ria and Makaie. These two are Rias first drawings.

Ria Undercover's drawing of Jonny

Ria Undercover's drawing

first Big issue doodle draw workshop

Big Issue Doodle Draw Workshop Number 1 Tue. 25th May, 2pm to 3.30pm

We went into the Big Issue entrance on Stokes Croft and sat and drew each other without looking at the paper. we wanted to get people coming in to pick up their magazines used to us coming each week and showing them what we are up to, playing drawing games and inviting them to join in. All the people who came by were very friendly and interested but when we suggested they try drawing with us they all said "ooooh, no, I can't draw". Also they were often in a rush to get out to their pitch to sell magazines. Eventually though a girl called Joanna sat down with us and we played the squiggle game. You each scribble on a piece of paper then swap and begin to make a picture out of the other person's squiggle. You swap back and forth, adding to the drawings. Joanna was very enthusiastic so hopefully she'll come next week.

The idea of drawing can be a bit scary and we're trying to break that idea down. Drawing is fun, whatever way you feel like drawing. Seems like the Big Issue one will begin to gather momentum once people there get to know us.

squiggle drawing by Jonathan and Joanna 2

Squiggle drawing by Jonathan and Joanna 1

Saturday 22nd of May, Stokes Croft festival Emporium Doodle Draw first drawing session

we did our first session of drop in drawing for anyone who wanted to come in and draw. We stapled paper up onto the wall and let people draw whatever they felt like using sharpies, marker pens and biros. Paper was put at child height for the smaller visitors who got very into drawing. Whilst people came and went and drew and rested, the bands Radiant Sounds of Dust and Badger Trap played in the room.

Our intention is to continue every saturday this drop in drawing session for anyone who would like to come and join us. If anyone has ideas for drawing workshops, games, projects etc please come to the Doodle Draw sessions every Saturday in the Emporium, Stokes Croft (opposite the City Road Junction). We are going to draw outside the doors this Saturday the 29th at 3pm.

towards the end of the drawing session

remi drawing mike

drawing

mum and girl drawing

mike beginning the drawing on sat.22nd of May, the first Emporium drop in drawing session of Doodle Draw

The Doodle Draw Project

We are Mike Powell and Jonathan Farr, two people who love drawing and who spend a lot of time in St. Pauls and Stokes Croft.

We are running drawing workshops in St. Pauls and on Stokes Croft for thirteen weeks starting on Saturday 21st May 2010 in the Stokes Croft festival, at the Emporium gallery on Stokes Croft where we will be having a drop in draw on paper on the walls.

From then on we will be running four workshops a week.

The one on Saturdays in the Emporium gallery Stokes Croft will be open to whoever wants to come by and draw with us. In the Amana Educational Trust in St. Pauls at there will be a workshop from 11am every Monday until 12.30, one for Big Issue vendors in the Big Issue office, Stokes Croft on Tuesdays from 2 to 3.30pm, and finally one for young teenagers in Full Circle from 5pm to 6.30pm on Tuesdays.

Our basic reason for doing these workshops is to help people to enjoy and develop their drawing. We will have fun with drawing games, go outside and draw the neighbourhood, conduct drawing experiments and focus on a project for a final group exhibition which will involve all four groups to be held in Hamilton House in mid September. It is our belief that anyone can draw. If you want to draw just draw. It can be a very rewarding thing to do.

The Doodle Draw community project is being funded by the Bristol City Council's Arts, Festivals and Events Service.

drawings on the tree drawing

drawing round trees