Look & Draw Workshops

On Wednesday 8 July, Fiona Oliver Larkin will lead the next Expanded Drawing session at Look & Draw, in collaboration with Jill Martin Boualaxai. This multidisciplinary workshop explores drawing through movement, character and performative mark-making.

Beginning with a short movement warm-up, participants will experiment with simple objects used as extensions of the body and interrupters of the mark. Through a series of prompts and collaborative drawing exercises, gestures are exaggerated, redirected or disrupted by the objects being used.

Working on large sheets of paper, the drawing surface becomes a shared stage where movement, character and action leave traces. Marks emerge through tapping, dragging, balancing and shifting weight rather than controlled hand movements.
By altering the relationship between body, object and drawing surface, familiar drawing habits begin to shift and new gestures emerge.

Fiona Oliver Larkin is an Edinburgh-based physical theatre maker, puppeteer and circus performer whose work explores movement, storytelling and the body in space.

Further details can be found on our website.
Head to the link in bio to book your place. https://www.lookanddraw.co.uk/service-page/expanded-drawing-interrupted-marks?referral=service_list_widget

Drink & Draw // Monoprint Life Drawing
Our monthly monoprint life drawing session is coming up on 25 March, 6:45–9pm at in Abbeyhill.
In these sessions we use printmaking as a way of drawing from the figure. Unlike pencil or charcoal, where marks can be moved, rubbed out or corrected, monoprinting is much more immediate. Once the mark is made, it stays.
This interrupts the usual rhythm of drawing, asking you to respond differently. Plates often retain marks from earlier prints, drawings build through layering, and unexpected results become part of the process. The outcome is a series of quick, gestural one-off prints made in response to the model.
Here are a few images from last month’s session to give a sense of what to expect.
All materials are included.
https://www.lookanddraw.co.uk/service-page/drink-draw-the-safari-sessions?referral=service_list_widget