I turned up at the excellent Tent City University at Occupy LSX this Wednesday to host drawing workshop. Just so I don't have to explain my take on the drawing + Occupy thing again, look here.
Lots of my workshop ended up being about this crazy 'installation' I discovered in Paternoster sqare.
The workshop was well attended by people from the camp and visitors, including a guy who wandered in half-way through, demanded 'social justice', and seemed a little annoyed that I couldn't provide it for him then and there.
We focused on the low-key, everyday realities of the camp, drawing parts of our neighbors, what we had for breakfast (both warm-up exercises really, but I particularly like the second one because it starts to combine observational 'life-drawing' with what I'd call 'applied life-drawing': involving memory, circumstances, emotions - plus this exercise gets diagrammatic which I like too).
We went on to draw any one thing that had particularly drawn us to the St Pauls camp.
People took away sketchbooks and, I hope, will keep on drawing.
I'll be back on 19th for a follow-up workshop. If you didn't come to the first one (or if you did) you're equally welcome.
And if you have a drawing of Occupy London and would like to add it to the Flickr account where I've posted more of the Occupy sketchbooks, please send it to me at badaude at aol dot com.
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