Drawing workshop.

14th November

Today for my drawing workshop i was put into a group, my group was taken to the Manchester university museum. When we got to the museum we were told there is so much in the rooms that we would not have enough time to draw everything and we have to give ourselves a rule. I was very nervous about this because i did not know what the museum was like inside and i was scared of giving myself a rule and it not working in the space. When i was outside i first thought of the rule to look at the windows, i did this as it links with my sleuths, spies and lies project as i can not get in side the library and i can only see inside by the windows, so i thought this would be really interesting. However when i got inside the windows were all curtained off, this could have looked really interesting however i was really looking for more pattern so i decided to change my rules, this was very stressful because every one was drawing and i was clueless, people had rules such as draw fur and draw the floor, I decided to take chance and i stood in the middle of the museum and i started spinning with my eyes closed and my friend told me to stop and random times, This was so helpful because i did not stress about what to drawing and as soon as i knew where to draw i did it. I was drawing many different parts of the space including the corner of the room, the floor and a snake. I am linking this to my project by looking at the library being constructed and thinking about the risk of working on such a old building and how so many things colour go wrong. I really enjoyed letting go and taking risks in my work. I did this a couple of weeks ago in my drawing workshop when doing the blind drawings, as that told me to just draw what i see.