My art practice is rusty, for a few more months. It’s on hold while I put energies into my art research.
Ideas keep cooking, of course, and the odd spot of sketching happens naturally, but yesterday I took the day off to try something new. I’d booked myself onto a Drawing Theatre day to indulge in an unusual life drawing session, where the models are performers.
The setting, in the Grand Hall of the Battersea Arts Centre, was as grand as its name. A ornamental space, huge, was filled with less traditional props, like a makeshift staircase and naked people.
By the end of the day, pink and yellow balloons, inflated by the models, were all above us and around our feet, and the metaphors extracted from the intriguing performance added to the inspiration of the music organ, decorated ceiling, arched windows and human beings. To respond to the theatrical scene, participants used pencil, watercolour, collage, charcoal, felt-tips, even an iPad! Creativity flowed abundantly and a few of my drawings are good enough to share.
Here is a snippet from my take on the event:
