These exciting workshops are designed both to hone drawing skills by learning to look in different ways, and to challenge and re-animate ways of using water-based paint media. We always start by drawing – with the left hand (if normally right handed), looking at the shapes in between objects (‘negative shapes’), taking a line for a walk, drawing with eyes shut, anything to both loosen up and refine habitual ways of seeing. We start . . . → Read More: Experimenting with mixed media – and other things. Workshops with Elizabeth Haines 2011.
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It was a marvellous day: Seimon Morris played various chords and sequences which we listened to carefully, and then visualised in colour the character and intervals in each one; this included the unresolved dominant 7th at the end of Messiaen’s L’Ascension. (During this some swallows were chirping in the barn – wouldn’t Messiaen have loved that!) 12 versions of Tallis’ ordinal were played in different keys, and everyone wrote down what they thought was . . . → Read More: Art & Music Workshop at BrynMorris May 14th 2011 |
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