Big Issue 6th July

Today we didn't do any drawing other than twenty minutes in the Big Issue office. Then we met Marmite who took us up to the Dove Street flats behind Stokes Croft to meet Smiler who has been gardening there outside his flat and inviting his Somalian neighbours to help. He's got a beautiful garden with vegetables, herbs and flowers on a little slope. Our plan is to go and draw there when he gardens next week and see if people are up for joining in drawing and if we can learn some gardening.

We've decided that for the Big Issue workshops the best thing to do is draw for half an hour in the office, using it as a base so if people want to come and find us they know wher we are at 2 oclock every Tuesday. If no-one comes by half past two we go out looking for people to draw with, like Lisa who drew with us last week in the Bear Pit.