Archive for the ‘Figure Drawing For Design’ Category

For the next 8 weeks or so one of the subjects I’m doing is Figure Drawing for Design. Late yesterday afternoon we went to the museum to sketch anatomical studies. Between the teacher arriving 10 minutes late and then we were all urged to leave by museum staff 15 minutes before the hour - we barely managed to get half an hour of drawing done.

This puts me in mind of an episode that occured when I worked at the museum in it’s old location in Swanston Street next to the State Library. It was a hot Friday afternoon during the height of summer at the tail end of the seventies. I had been in the stacks at the State Library doing research and had come back to the museum a little late but still well before it officially closed. My office in the museum had already been locked by security by the time I got there. I ran back to the museum entrance but now it too was locked and everybody had left.

I leave it up to your imagination to picture my chagrin, then panic and finally anger when accused by the security guard of breaking in. My view of museum security staff remains jaundiced to this day. However this has nothing much to do with today’s topic of Figure Drawing For Design. As an experiment our art teacher has decided we must all maintain a (we)blog for the duration. I’ve created a new category (Figure Drawing For Design) to accomodate this requirement for the unit. If I manage to turn out any drawings that won’t make me cringe too much, I’ll post those as well as my thoughts on the subject and anything else that takes my fancy on the subject.

So for now, logging off,
Jools