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An invitation is extended to anyone visiting Bath or its surrounding areas to join the Bath and District SAA (Society for All Artists) Group to view an exhibition of members' work to be held at St Michael's Church, Broad Street, Bath from 19th - 21 April (10 a.m . to 4 p.m.- 3pm on Saturday). Admission is free, there is a public car park nearby, disabled access and you can take the weight of your feet and have a cup of tea in the peace of the Church cafe. We will be delighted to meet you. :-D
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Looking around me now, there's a container of brushes; a pile of books; a computer monitor, obviously; my battered old fedora; a mug for my tea; and, reprehensibly, the bowl I had my porridge in this morning, still sitting on my desk. Any of those would make a subject for a drawing - although I think I'd find the monitor a bit of a bore .... there's even a bottle of smelling salts (for me choobs, you see; yes, I've been under the Doctor with me nose...). <div>
</div><div>So many possibilities!</div>
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Thanks, guys, this is really useful!
What I am doing, is studying the concept of entropy. Entropy is the gradual, time-based decay of something- a synonym for destruction, fragmentation and disorder. So, I want to take something very common, recognisable and well-structured (an everyday object) and subject it to entropy until it is broken down and quite unrecognisable- whether this is through drawing, photography or physically!
I've got things like tools (carpenters pincers, wrench) - things that come in parts and pieces that can be deconstructed...
All pretty interesting.
Thanks again for you replies :-)
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Ah Bloodaxe, I am afraid it is not a myth, anything can be interesting, you only have to approach it the right way. There is a difference in drawing to copy and drawing to find out and explore. Objective drawing can be an adventure in itself no matter what the subject is, you just have to assume you know nothing about the object and use your drawing to explore how it is put together, if you approach it with the right frame of mind anything becomes interesting because the act of drawing is interesting.
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Hi, Bloodaxe, I tend to think about it the other way round, the student is being a lazyarse for not willing to go out of his comfort zone. Drawing can be looked at two ways , either to illustrate another interest or as a pleasurable activity in its own right.
Being good at drawing never stopped anyone who has it in them to be creative, but lack of skill does if you don't have the tools to express yourself.
I've known people who are good at drawing steam engines, ships or dogs, usually from photos, but are hopeless at trying to make sense of anything else in the real world. When you can draw properly you can draw anything.
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I do a weekly leisure session for mostly retired people. One morning I set up a load of junk, found objects, brooms, old cardboard boxes a pair of scissors etc in a complete jumble on a table. I told them they were going to draw it and did a quick demo about looking for edges, points of contact, angles and most important, to forget the names of the items they were drawing and think of them as abstract shapes. . They got on with it and an hour of compete silence followed except for scratching of pencils on paper. At the end they all produced good drawings but more important there were a lot of remarks about how they didn't think that drawing junk was going to be interesting, but when they got into the activity as I described, they got absorbed in the actual process of drawing and time just flew by. They still talk about that exercise, and I will do it again with them some time.
The point of this anecdote is that as long as you engage in the process of drawing to discover something it becomes an absorbing activity in its own right and you can find pleasure in drawing anything. This is right brain drawing, as distinct from left brain, where we name something first and then try to copy it.
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