Experimental Drawing Workshop

Programme manager Ian Andrews delivered the regular experimental drawing workshop "Project in a night." This year it attracted a record number of participants with over 30 students volunteering for a two-hour evening session. As in previous workshops the emphasis was on the development of ideas under extreme time pressure.

OUTLINE encourages all students to participate and a wide range of different levels attended from first year subsidiary diploma, AS/A2 art to HND Fine art. These workshops create a space/arena in which students can operate outside the criteria of normal projects, where anything can happen and  experimental discoveries can be made.

“FEED” Evening with visiting artist Saranjit Birdi.

OUTLINE welcomed  former student Saranjit Birdi to the first FEED evening of 2013/2014. Saranjit spoke about his varied practice as an Architect, Choreographer, Theatre Designer and his work on Public Art Commissions.  His fusion of drawing and dance was of particular interest to the OUTLINE initiative.

At the end of his talk he demonstrated his drawing abilities with different parts of his anatomy! Making a portrait of Programme Manager Ian Andrews in 10 minutes using his feet!

Then it was “socks off” for those  willing to have a go themselves!

 

Book of Birmingham

Come along and join us at The Birmingham Book festival in the library. The City of 1000 Stories team invites you to participate in our latest art installation, the Book of Birmingham. Share you personal experience and tell your story through words and images using a range of simple mark making and drawing techniques, before adding your contribution to the flying pages of the Book of Birmingham installation in the pop-up bookshop.

Spend some time or simply drop in for a moment to add your ‘visual voice’ to the many fragments. Join us, let your story be part of the installation, be creative and make your mark!

The Birmingham Book Festival runs from the 4^th October until 13^th October at the Birmingham Library, weekdays 10am – 5.30pm, Saturdays 9am – 4.30pm, Sunday the library is closed. 

Find more information about the Festival here.

The view from the outside in

Welcome to Outline!

Today Outline welcomed the next generation of artists and designers for a taster day ahead of the start of their level 3 Subsidiary Diploma, which will start in September. The objective of the day was to give the students the opportunity to 'tell' their stories and introduce themselves to the group using the medium of drawing. At the same time the taster day was designed to give our next generation of students the opportunity to meet fellow learners and to familiarise themselves with their new college environment. The group of over 40 students took part in a series of workshops, as a group they produce a final piece of fine art drawing.

At the beginning there were individual drawings....which later were joined through further sketches and drawings of personal items that the students brought with them.

 A students mapping her journey from home into college...

Students expressing themselves through 'silhouette-drawings'.

Keywords such as 'Heritage', 'Education' and 'Magic' prompted a mind-map.

The students regularly rotated and changed their positions, which led to the creation of a final communal piece of work. 

 "Jazz-hands!"

Outline would like to thank all students that attended today's taster session for their effort and for the fantastic outcomes they produced during the session, it would have not been the same without you! Welcome to Outline!

Research trip to museums in Oxford

Students from AS and A2 Level in Graphic Communication, as well as students from the Subsidiary Diploma in Illustration on a recent research trip to museums in Oxford. The students visited the Ashmolean, the MoMA and the Pitt Rivers Museum. All students used the trip to gather visual research and inspiration for their current projects, with the Pitt Rivers Museum being of particular interest and inspiration due to it's quirkiness and the shear overwhelming amount of pieces of 'everyday usage' that are on show.

The group attentively listening to a brief introduction to the Pitt Rivers Museum given by a member of staff from the educational team.

The group of illustration students was asked to gather research and inspiration for their own character developments, of which there was plenty in the many showcases of the Pitt Rivers Museum.

1, 2, 3....say spaghetti!