Day Three - Drawing possibilities

Day Three is a practical art task - experiment with different drawing media on a range of different surfaces from printing paper to tinfoil.

What we are learning today:
* Use a journal to keep track of your ideas and learning
* Try lots of possibilities with different drawing media
* Record what works and what doesn't
* Think about how these experiments can be used in later drawings

We started with a recap on what we did on the first two days, to make connections between art and writing and the end goal of making a self-portrait book. The emphasis is on the mark-making possibilities of each media. While the goal is to explore the uses of drawing media and papers, remember to see it as part of the whole project, thinking about the posiible ways of using your experiments later.

As usual none of the tasks are compulsary, feel free to adapt or leave out parts, but do try to experiment with new ways of working. In the pilot project everyone used their journals to record what worked together and what didn't:

Today we took different approaches. Maria made a rainbow with different media and I made a collage roughly based on my self-portrait drawing from day one with different papers before drawing over.

We used pencil, pen, oil and chalk pastel, charcoal, marker and crayon, tinfoil, tissue paper, scraps of old photos, wallpaper, sandpaper, newspaper, bubble wrap and shopping bags, but anything that's handy will do. Have fun and remember you can use the journal to draw aspects of the world around you, keep track of important events, emotions and feelings and planning for the finished book. I used mine today to write down all the sounds I could hear around me outside, there's no rules!