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Sketchy Panorama of Parkhead Cross

Working together at Parkhead Arts Centre on a large cartridge paper piece of the view of the historic Parkhead Cross buildings outside. We had to work quickly to sketch in the shapes of windows, roof lines, roads, road lights, and passing folk. We took turns… Read More »Sketchy Panorama of Parkhead Cross

Collage and mixing up drawings and text – Parkhead Men’s Art Group

The group has experimented creatively with word drawings, bringing in looser drawings/ illustration also to express their ideas about their community, experience and activity within the city..

Sketchbook work at Parkhead Men’s Art Group

Cracking start to the Parkhead Men’s Art Group combining drawing with creative writing. Inspiring community space at the Parkhead Arts Centre set up by Rebecca Fraser. We began with some fun tasks such as sticking down magazine cuttings of words and pasting onto our sketchbooks,… Read More »Sketchbook work at Parkhead Men’s Art Group

Developing the initial sketches – Maryhill Art Group

Developing the fast initial sketches (in the previous post) into longer pieces. Folk started bringing in shapes based on memory and their experience. Also we moved into nature related compositions. A couple of folk who are into gardening and flowers worked on topographical map like… Read More »Developing the initial sketches – Maryhill Art Group

Maryhill Art Group – drawing architectural shapes

We worked on some creative and futuristic drawings inspired by architecture. Mostly 3 to 5 minutes for each drawing. One of the students responded to her drawings: space invaders – doctor who… or maybe even cosmic mess!

Discussing creative approaches at the Mitchell Library for combining art and literacy

At the Aye Write ’17 Adult Literacy event at the Mitchell Library, March – Blair discussing the creative approaches to combine art and design and writing – for the publication ‘Future’ which was launched at the event.