Big Draw Workshop with Art + Power

We set out to use the Learning Revolution funding to run a drawing workshop at the school for the local adult learning group, art + power, who without funding have been unable to run activities for their members for many months.

art + power supports participants who are disabled, Deaf and/or people who face social exclusion to achieve their creative potential by facilitating support from a wide range of groups and individuals.

For the workshop, which was led by the landscape artist Kate Raggett, we explored different ways and materials used to make drawings. Using inspiration from nature and seasonal subjects we experimented with different methods of mark-making, initially working small scale and then really big!

Participants benefited from the opportunity to explore their creativity, they enjoyed making the work and made the most of the instruction from Kate. They also benefited from being able to meet each other were able to chat during the breaks and there was a notable increase in social confidence from all of them by the end of the day.

Big Draw Resource Day

Bristol Drawing School and DRAW group provided a free day of information sharing, drawing resources and a guide through how to develop and run a Big Draw Event in your community or place of work. The theme of the day was ‘What is the Big Draw Campaign all about?’ with practical tips, ideas and useful resources as well as an opportunity to explore the drawing potential pertinent to your community situation.

Big Draw with the Fine Artistes at Cribbs Causeway

Our second Big Draw 2009 event and another successful day. The Fine Artistes were on hand again to entertain and inspire.

Big Draw with the Fine Artistes at The Mall, Broadmead

Our Big Draw event with the Fine Artistes was a great success with people of all ages taking part. We will be running another event at Cribbs Causeway on Friday 30th October so please do join us again!

Bristol Drawing School @ Bristol Festival 2009

Come and see us at the Bristol Festival this weekend, we'll be in the workshops tent life drawing with Valerie Bowes, full workshops event list is:

Saturday
All Day - Deamon and Doppleganger
11:00 Drumming Workshop
12:30 Rag Dolly Anne, felt making
14:00 Bristol Drawing school
15:30 Yoga Workshop
17:00 Ugly Sisters Theatre Workshop

Sunday
All day - Hula Hoop workshop (Thirzie)
11:00 Tai Chi
12:00 Bristol Capoeira
14:00 Jewellery Making Workshop
15:30 Bristol Drawing School
17:00 East Side Roots- Permeculture talk

If you've always wanted to try life drawing - now's your chance!

Full details of Bristol's community festival here:

http://www.thebristolfestival.org/

Big Draw Bristol 2009

We've created a website to list all the Big Draw events in the Bristol area this coming October.


It’s just gone live and we are encouraging people to register and post their own events, we will be expanding it soon with a forum, more info and maps.

We enjoy putting on events for the Big Draw here at the Bristol Drawing School, and we thought that last year there was a number of good events in the Bristol area but no real co-ordination between them, so we thought it would be good to have a local resource for people to get know what each other and doing and perhaps swap ideas and experience.

Having this resource should also help with local publicity as we can present all the events more as part of a wider festival, city wide as well as national, and hopefully get more people involved and drawing!

Hope you like it, any feedback or comments welcomed

Street Studio at The Mall Broadmead Bristol

As part of the Big Draw celebrations we put on a free come and draw street studio in the Mall Broadmead (formerly Galleries). We had entertainment from Rose and Brian Popay from the very fine Fine Artistes encouraging passers by to sit down for a while and draw a still life, or take part in a large collaborative drawing of Bristol.

We had a huge response with people of all ages overcoming the initial reluctance to take the time out from their frantic shopping and draw us a picture, some stayed for only a couple of moments others for a number of hours!


















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