Drawing Tuesday last week was back at the
Brunei Gallery at SOAS. Id brought coloured pencils and pens but was so overwhelmed by all the wonderful textiles I didn't know where to begin! So I settled for something simpler (haa!) a selection of silver bracelets rendered in graphite
After lunch at
Mary Ward ( delicious vegetarian food) I headed back to Wellcome Collection to collect some more information for the Contemporary Drawing Sketchbook Course
On the previous visit I'd been intrigued by the x-ray quality of white ink drawings on slate by
Michael Hopkins so came armed with black paper and white pencils and crayons!
They're beautiful when you look at them closely, the combination of hard and soft edges and diffuse overlapping shapes reminiscent of bones. On a different scale to
Ian McKeevers 'Temple Paintings' but sharing some of the same qualities .
In the 'electricity' exhibition ( no photos allowed) I didn't get past the first room with the very early studies of discharge patterns . Again the black paper and white gel pen came in handy and I remembered the subtlety of Rothko's
graphite on black in trying to show the
'Lichtenberg Figures' on copper plates.
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Your drawings are wonderful - so skilled. You can really "see".
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