Saturday, November 19, 2011

Update on drawing room project: 2011 November

I'm back!!!! and.......With Liz Sheehan's help, I am currently collaborating with Bo Lembo, Melinda, Kenya, and the gang at the Gately Center at the Peabody Middle School in Cambridge, and working some Thursday afternoons with youth who study, create, and collaborate there in the afternoons. We are working on drawings based on themes; these are some of the themes so far:

build a story based on words selected by a group vote which included a location, two actions, two characters
draw a sign for your neighborhood
draw a hybrid character based on an animal, person, object combination
lastweek, students made small books with cardboard covers and each page contained a letter from their first name

Next week, three students will go to the senior center near by to teach and work with them on themed drawings.

All of the drawings will be studied and reviewed, and we will decide how to create a zine, produce an exhibit, and maybe another public workshop somewhere in the community.

Images and more details to come.......smiles, Alex

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

theme for the week of 7 to 13 february 2011: botany and plant life

Greetings!!! This week's theme for drawing in public is botany and plant life. You might want to try a botanical drawing, sort of like a diagram, or scientific arrangement on the page. You might want to draw your favorite flower from memory, or invent the plant life that might exist somewhere across the planet, which you have never seen.

Happy drawing!!!

Monday, January 31, 2011

theme for the week of 30 january to 6 february 2011: animal

theme for week of 30 january to 6 february 2011: animals
draw an animal, invented, real, or imagined.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

theme for the week of 2 to 30 january 2011: autobiographical



Greetings!!

24 to 30 Jan
autobiographical
Draw from a past or recent event in your life that represents something meaningful or has had an impact on your being.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Sunday, January 9, 2011

theme for the week of 10 to 16 january 2011: sensation

3 to 9 Jan 2011
Theme for  the week of 10 to 16 January 2011 sensation
draw from a sensation you have experienced (without using words).

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

theme for the week of 3 to 10 january 2011

Happy New Year!!!!! More themes to come, please continue to check out the exhibit at CAC for drawings  and send your images to me here as well!! I'll let you know when I plan to come down!

3 to 9 Jan 2011
Theme for  the week of 3 to 9 January 2011: daily routine
Draw something/some activity from your daily routine.