Tuesday 4th August
Today we did a drawing workshop called Drawing Machines with tutor Oliver Kraft. I found this one the MOST FUN because we did some really messy stuff with paint and it was hands on. In the morning we had to draw objects as we saw them, then with another part of our body (not using our hands) which was really funny because i tried with my mouth which failed and then with my pencil attached to my elbow which is really harder than it looks! But it was really fun. In the afternoon our task was to create our own drawing machine in partners which i found the most fun. The first idea my partner and i came up with was to attach a ruler to the edge of the desk, put string through the hole in the ruler and attach a chalk or felt on the bottom of the string with a piece of paper on the floor, this should have made marks on the piece of paper when pushed… It worked but wasn’t as effective as we hoped.
The next thing we decided to do was to draw with chalk on a car tire and then roll it across a large bit of paper.
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I found that process really fun because we sat in the sun and drew patterns on the tire with chalk, then rolled over the paper.
Our third attempt was with a large bit of paper on the wall, and a paint brush hanging on the bits of wood on the ceiling in our cell. we put paint on the brush and pushed it towards the paper which created paint marks on the paper. This was the most funnest because we got really messy.
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