Live Drawing Wednesday

For our penultimate open studio we invited the public to take part in a live drawing event. Between 4 and 6pm Nina and Ying went on a series of walks to the areas of wasteland, that surround the studio. Every time they returned to the studio they brought with them an object collected during the walk and added it to the still life that Ying had set up earlier in the studio. As our visitors arrived, they were asked to select paper and drawing materials and to join Sarah and myself in drawing the gradually accumulating still life. During the progress of the open studio many drawings were completed and exhibited throughout the studio.

During this event I took the opportunity to try out an idea that I had recently been considering. I interspersed various instructions amongst the table of materials that we had provided for our guests. These instructions came from the previous open studio, where we left guidance to our fellow Association members to encourage them to preserve certain aspects of the studio during the clean-up process. I wanted to see whether these instructions affected the decisions our visitors made.