London 8-10/10/12

Drawings made whilst on a foundation residential trip to London:

8/10/12 Tate Britain

8/10/12 Tate Britain

9/10/12 V&A

(L) 9/10/12 Hotel lobby (R) 10/10/12 Tate Modern

10/10/12 Trafalgar Square

10/10/12 Tube Figures

10/10/12 Tube Figures

22/9/11 Tops of things/Hepworth Museum/Leeds

Had an induction trip with my first year Illustration Degree students - we visited the Hepworth museum in Wakefield in the morning and then Leeds Art gallery in the afternoon. The students had to work in homemade sketchbooks, documenting what they had seen and felt throughout the day and so I took the opportunity to do also do some drawing myself...

The visitors were difficult to capture, however some of the students were easier to draw as they at least stayed still for a short while...

Various figures (Hepworth Museum & Leeds City centre)

Figures in the Hepworth Museum

Various Buildings - Leeds City Centre

Making Marks Exhibition (9/9/11)

As I'd mentioned in one of my earlier posts (see sketch day 10), I had entered some drawings recently into a drawing exhibition run by Artlink, a local centre for community arts here in Hull (Link HERE) entitled 'Making Marks'. The theme of the exhibition was to take inspiration from local architecture, landscape and  culture which fitted perfectly with the range of drawings I've been working on recently, and all three of my pieces were selected for inclusion :)

The three pieces I submitted...

On the night of the exhibition, one of the other members of the Hull Urban Sketchers group - Quentin Budworth - arranged a wall drawing event where anyone in attendance was invited to draw their favourite parts of Hull to build up a collaborative map of the city using chalk and charcoal.

The night was a great success with fantastic levels of participation from people attending, including contributions from myself and some of the other members of the Hull Urban Sketchers.

L to R: Myself, Lewis Jackson, Gareth Sleightholme

The wall coming together...

And here are the four drawings I included on the wall...

The Church on Princes Avenue next to the Artlink building

Pearson Park folly

Cafe Nero/Maritime Museum - Hull City Centre

The British Extraction Co. building

So a good event overall which I really enjoyed taking part in, and which has rekindled my fondness for doing larger scale stuff with charcoal...