Doodle now!
Preparing for our month-long sketchbook challenge for the Big Draw campaign, I accidentally came across this TED video about doodling and how it improves comprehension and unlocks creativity. Doodlers unite!
And once you've shed your inhibitions about doodling and become empowered by this short video, you'll be interested to run to our nearest Big Draw station at uni and sketch away. Here are the details:
The Big Draw: Sketchbook Challenge
The Campaign for Drawing has one aim: to get everyone drawing!
Held throughout October, The Big Draw is the Campaign's flagship programme and aims to bring communities together in creative ways. Join the largest drawing festival in the world! The Sketchbook Challenge, this year’s Big Draw activity of the university’s Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, has been inspired by the sketchbooks by the artist and art historian Stephen Chaplin (born 1934). To find out more about Chaplin and to see a selection of his fascinating sketchbooks please visit the Brotherton Library foyer from Monday 3rd October – Friday 21st October.
Between 1 and 21 October, ourlovely concertina sketchbooks will appear in various places around the whole university campus so you can sketch in all of them!
You can pick up a map of the locations at the Gallery. Please note that not all areas are open to the public.
Start drawing!
Take a few minutes to look around your surroundings, document the moment through a quick sketch in the sketchbook provided.
Stephen Chaplin often sketched the most mundane objects such as crumpled crisp packets and his mug of tea, often annotating his sketch with a couple of words, date and time, the weather, or his personal impressions, e.g. ‘Tea & ham sandwich in the first floor café – waiting for departure, platform 6, Salisbury’. You might have time to draw what’s going on the next table or out of the window. You could add a date, time, include your name or remain anonymous, annotate your sketch to set the scene for others. Be part of the exhibition.
Fill the sketchbooks with your observations, ideas and doodles, and your art will be displayed in the Brotherton Library Foyer and outside The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Court from Monday 24th October.
Doodle and chill with friends: Big Draw Day in the Gallery
In connection with the month-long drawing campaign, the Gallery will host a drawing and sketching afternoon on Saturday 8 October.
The Gallery will celebrate Big Draw Day by transforming the Gallery space into a cosy place where you can drop in to meet people, doodle and have a chat about art, universe and everything.
There will be beanbags, pencils, sketchbooks, music, and lots of inspiration.
The sketchbooks collected from campus and the Gallery will be exhibited from 24 October 2011.
The Campaign for Drawing will finish when the words 'I can't draw' are dropped from our vocabulary!
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