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

Experimental Drawing - Time-lapse recording

Experimental Drawing at Outline from TJ Schoen on Vimeo.

This is a time-lapse recording of the experimental drawing workshop, which took place last Thursday evening at Outline.

Outline Drawing Event

The images show the latest Outline Drawing Event which took place to coincide with the College Open Evening and not only provided an opportunity for students to participate in what we call...

“Project in a night”

The Event also gave visitors to the Open Event a chance to join in and make some drawings themselves. The main purpose of the event, led by programme manager Ian Andrews, was to show students and visitors not only how to improve their basic drawing skills but also to demonstrate how drawing can be used as a medium for the development of ideas.

The students were asked to produce five A1 drawings starting from observation but which showed certain qualities/visual characteristics/ideas being emphasised and expressed across the sequence of work produced. The pressure was on because the workshop was only 2 hours long and the participants responded wonderfully to the pressure and an amazing number of quality drawings were produced which did indeed show the development of ideas across the sequence of studies.