We had a really fun session drawing and painting the musical instruments that we had brought in.
We did observational drawing with graphite and coloured pencils. We also did observational drawing using water-soluble graphite pencils, really effectively showing the highlights and shadows of the brass metal of the cornet. We also did abstracted work on pre-prepared musical sheet paper with acrylic paint and posca pen. A red bugle on a black & white piece of sheet music using chalk pastel created a dramatic piece of artwork, befitting to a bugle.
Many of the artworks used expressive mark making to suggest sound and movement. We used free and expressive black charcoal and red sepia contes. Watercolour and pen has been used in gestural ways to suggest music sounds and movement.
And finally we have a ‘horizon line’ of all the instruments on the tables, drawn in a continuous line with the non-dominant hand and without looking at the paper, with bright ‘musical’ colours added using felt-tip pen. We have expressive use of colour to great effect, again indicating great energy, movement and music.
Thank you everybody for brining in your beautiful musical instruments, and for really fun session!
