3rd drawing workshop - FILM!

This time, as the Halloween was just in few days from our Drawing Workshop Monday, George and the King of Illustration (I mean, Darryl Clifton), prepared for us quite unusual tasks. 

They presented to us two horror films - Suspiria and Kwaidan.

We were supposed to draw stills from the movies in many different, creative, non-obvious ways, like, for example, reversing colours or by line contrast the most important element of composition.

Those are my best attempts on interpretating the Suspiria moments:

Here you can see the Kwaidan stills:

As I were told, my way of creating is very 'exhausting to look at', because I work very quickly and spontaneously - yet I sometimes cannot find the perfect moment to stop and leave the drawing at its finest. Nevertheless, I realised that I can think in a completely new way, when the time is limited and my media are unpredictable, behaving in very organic way - and I am going to use that more often in my future creating. 

ROOM - 2nd Drawing Workshop.

My Outlook says, that our next experimental drawing workshop was on 27th of October, which means it was one thousand and three days ago. 

This time, we were meant to create the enviroment, the ROOM, thinking not only in a terms of creating a visual composition of lines and spills, which you consider during creating a drawing, but also in terms of filling the space, objects influencing each other, bringing the mood and the atmosphere to the place absorbed, place you want to change, rule on your own.

We did that in groups, which I always find diffcult yet useful. This is how the final outcome of artsy minds working together look like:

Copyrights go to Mathilda and her amazing iPhone

What we hopefully achieved, was the feeling of the forest at night, slightly lightened by the Moon, the atmosphere of a mystery, where the shadows play games with your mind. Nevertheless, we certainly created a lovely, vibrating chiaroscuro on the walls, simply by using the branches found outside and single lamp hidden behind the house (which we actually stole from the first, ice-braking project - is it being lazy or genious?).

After all the groups finished their ROOMS, we were meant to draw them, to re-interpete our own enviroments and approach other groups attempts.

I particulary got interested in portraying the branches and their relationshop with the strings, as they were braking their vertical repetition with horizontal accent.

TEXT - 1st Drawing Workshop with George Mellor, who appeared to be a woman and I was very surprised about it.

On Monday, 13th of October, year two thousand and fourteen, Camberwell, South London, England, Great Britain, Earth, Solar System, I had great opportunity to attend the first experimental drawing workshops in my life. 

As a student, with quite conservative background gained in Art High School, I was expecting typical life drawing of a model in clothes completely hiding his shape of a body. 

Then I have been told to draw a sound. 

And completely fell in love with experimental drawing. 

This is the only drawing from the sound excercise which I find worth mentioning, as the rest of them looked like I had a panic attack - but still, that was one of the first keys opening the door to the new thinking of describing the reality around me. As I was shamelessly sceptic in High School about 'those weird tasks given by this crazy woman' (hello, Ms. Wołonciej, how are you?), I used to be faithful to the strict copying the lines and shapes.
Drawing something abstract as a sound itself, truly helped me to turn on a switch. I cannot wait to see the consequences in future creating.

The next task presented was interpreting pieces of a... TEXT! (as the title probably already spoiled the surprise) - and God, please have a mercy on me, as I am not able to find them on the Internet, although through my drawing I still can sense the sense of a sense of those poems.

I discovered the magic of a ink mixed with water and big brush, allowing you to the enjoy the blessing of coincidence. 

(it was picked by George and she like it - made me blush a tiny bit)

I finished this day with hopes for completely new way of drawing to be expierenced over the next workshops.