Going back to the school where my art jounrey began was nerve racking, exciting and having an overhelming sense of dejva vu. Going back into the class rooms I had spent so long in. Beccie and I had been asked to teaching Lower 6th and Upper 6th girls some workshops that we had done on our foundation. The jump from being at school to foundation was and is a big one. You get thrown in at the deep end which is a great stepping stone into a degree.
We taught four different group giving the same workshop and then showing and explain our jounrney from foundation to our degree and how the skills we learnt on foundation still informs our work now.
Workshop:
- giving each person a 10cm by 10cm piece of cartridge paper
- a varitey of different drawing tools; fine liner, colur sticks and grafite
- looking at the still life ( based on their topic destruction and reconstruction) for 1 minute
- then closing their eyes and drawing the area they studied for 1 minute
- passing the piece they worked on to the left of them
- looking at the still life again but for 30 secs
- closing their eyes and drawing for 30secs
- pass to the left
- looking for 15 secs
- closing theirs eyes and drawing fro 15 secs
- pass to the left
- Using three different adjectives; To fold, To tear, to punctur to destroy/destruct the piece of paper infront of them 1 minute
- pass to the left
- Using three more adjectives; to sculpt, to combinem to weave to try and reconstruct the piece that you have been given for a minute
- What you are left with is your piece - through collaborative means and intriging mark making the end result may not look like much but it helps to let loose and not be intimated by being messy or fearing the white page
The workshop was really successful and all the girls got involved and took part. It was really good to revisit these old techniques especially going into our final year.
