Drawing to Print

Published on 27.03.15

It’s the Easter Holidays, which means the students are not here! This finally gives me some time to make a blog post on the work that they produced on one of their first modules “Drawing to Print”. “Drawing to Print” is a module that focusses on developing the students’ skills and confidence in drawing in

It’s the Easter Holidays, which means the students are not here! This finally gives me some time to make a blog post on the work that they produced on one of their first modules “Drawing to Print”.

“Drawing to Print” is a module that focusses on developing the students’ skills and confidence in drawing in a number of situations and scenarios, as well as demonstrating the links between certain drawing techniques and Print-Making methods.

To achieve this we undertook a variety of tasks, including creating jungle scenes using plastic children’s toy animals, matchbox cars and left over foliage from a local florist (think Henri Rousseau but even more surreal – not even he would have drawn a piglet driving a Chevrolet); exploring composition through arranging and drawing the contents of approximately 50 large boxes of matches (hiding these from the Health and Safety expert proved to be a most difficult task, thankfully all matches were accounted for and no naked flames made an appearance) and even braving the life drawing class for a few sessions where we were treated to a (female) life model who had the laugh and sense of humour of Sid James.

To add to this we had the indispensable help of Print Maestro/Art School Guru Roger Biggs, who gave us the advice needed to not lose any body parts that might be near an etching press (note to readers – keep it clean) and how to tidy up after ourselves (something the ball and chain still thinks I need to work on)

Anyway, keeping things short, here are some of the fruits of our students labour.

Neil