Barrow Hill Junior School

More Doodling...

'If you can draw, even a little bit, you can express all kinds of ideas that might otherwise be lost - delights, frustrations, whatever torments you or pleases you.'

David Hockney, Campaign for Drawing Patron

   

   

More doodles in the album 5F Feet Doodles...

Drawing...

 

The Campaign has revealed and animated and organised an extended national interest in drawing. It has allowed people to draw, and to gather together to draw, in the same way that they gather together to sing. It has brought thousands of people into our galleries and museums. Many of these might not otherwise have come; and almost more importantly, the Campaign for Drawing has, noticeably, altered the relationship of these visitors with the institutions. They arrive with a purpose, their interest has a focus. This is a triumph of the best kind of accessibility…establishing the importance of drawing not only as a mode of self-expression but a tool in learning and in science and design.

Quentin Blake CBE, Campaign for Drawing Patron

Big Draw Launch 2008

      

As I mentioned in the previous post, in a couple of weeks time our art week will be underway and again, the focus will be drawing - linking to The Big Draw, which is organised by The Campaign for Drawing.

'The Campaign for Drawing has one aim: to get everyone drawing!'

'Everyone can draw.' Posy Simmonds

'Without some drawing each day, there's no proper seeing. That's how it is for me.' Andrew Marr

This weekend is the Big Draw launch 2008. This free festival in London launches The Big Draw 2008 - a month of national drawing events.

There are some amazing sounding masterclasses, performances, workshops, screenings and talks happening over the city starting on Friday - some require tickets but some are drop-in events. Take a look at the website here.

We're still here!

Ok, so we're well into the new school year here and I'm busy planning for Art Week 2008, which will take place in a little under two weeks time!

For those of you who weren't with us for our last one, in October 2006, here are just some of the many photographs that were taken throughout the week.