EYE TO PENCIL: WORKSHOP NOTES AND RESOURCES
The resources on this page are related to various workshops led at the wonderful Eye to Pencil Drawing Studio, London. The slideshows are presented without context here and therefore might not make much sense without accompanying mumblings. That said, they may not have made sense with explanation, but hopefully everyone had a nice time.
THE BOOK OF ART EDUCATION 23 FEBRUARY 2024
What happens when 10 artists, art educators, illustrators, writers and/or enthusiastic others come together to write-draw-make a book about art education ... in one day?
This experimental workshop was aimed at proactive artists and educators with a passion for words and pictures. Participants explored a range of publications and prompts with particular inspiration from medieval illuminated manuscripts.
This experimental workshop was aimed at proactive artists and educators with a passion for words and pictures. Participants explored a range of publications and prompts with particular inspiration from medieval illuminated manuscripts.
BOOK LOOK BEWARE! 19 JAN 2024
What is it with 'book looks', 'work scrutinies', assessment and what-not that drives art teachers to distraction? Plus, what's the obsession with 'markmaking' and the 'formal elements'? (Or title pages, research pages, eyeballs, hands, unicorns ..).
What are the foundations for the hindrances and habits of sketchbook working - and what happens when these are playfully and collaboratively dismantled and disrupted?
An experimental CPD workshop aimed at (but not exclusively for) teachers of art and design at Primary, Secondary or HE level.
What are the foundations for the hindrances and habits of sketchbook working - and what happens when these are playfully and collaboratively dismantled and disrupted?
An experimental CPD workshop aimed at (but not exclusively for) teachers of art and design at Primary, Secondary or HE level.
THE GAMES WE PLAY 1 NOV 2023
From playground chalked-doodles to Surrealist-inspired parlour games, drawing and ‘play’ have long held close associations. But then, the games we play hold associations and histories - and drawings are rarely innocent or neutral in this. Be it for procrastination or political subversion, personal expression or educational insights, this workshop provided a day of playful collaboration, reflection and drawing-based word-play and mischief. Game on!
LEARNInG DRAWING; DRAWING LEARNING 22 SEPT 2023
What would learning look like if it had visual or tangible form? What are the lines that teachers can or should be drawing - be it for expectations, lesson mapping, modelling or mischief-making?
An experimental CPD workshop aimed at (but not exclusively for) teachers of art and design at Primary, Secondary or HE level. Participants came together to draw, collaborate and re-imagine art education in practical and profound ways. A range of ‘big ideas’ and art-room activities were shared and concocted in support of personal and professional creative development.
An experimental CPD workshop aimed at (but not exclusively for) teachers of art and design at Primary, Secondary or HE level. Participants came together to draw, collaborate and re-imagine art education in practical and profound ways. A range of ‘big ideas’ and art-room activities were shared and concocted in support of personal and professional creative development.
CROSSING THRESHOLDS: LESSONS IN DRAWING 15 FEB 2023
An introduction to ‘Threshold Concept thinking’ as a means for reflecting on the affordances and possibilities of drawing. What does it mean to learn to draw in the 21st Century? What transformative knowledge or troublesome ideas might – or should – be encountered along the way, and who decides these? And how might the words we choose - or invent, even - translate, describe, contextualise or further mystify our individual and collective experiences of drawing?
Taking inspiration from Artpedagogy’s Threshold Concepts for Art, this experimental drawing workshop playfully explored notions of the ‘traditional’, ‘modern’ and ‘contemporary’ alongside the potential of words - within and alongside drawings, as lines and marks that shift and shape meanings.
Taking inspiration from Artpedagogy’s Threshold Concepts for Art, this experimental drawing workshop playfully explored notions of the ‘traditional’, ‘modern’ and ‘contemporary’ alongside the potential of words - within and alongside drawings, as lines and marks that shift and shape meanings.