For Day 9, we’re going to look at ‘Energy Stores’ in plants. It’s fascinating to think of these ‘life support’ systems resting just underground, ready to give energy for regrowth when the season changes.
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Today is Day 8 of Da Voar Draw, and it’s hard to believe we’re over half-way through this series of daily creative activities taking a fresh look at nature through drawing!
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Today, we’re taking inspiration from ‘In Praise of Shadows’, an evocative essay by Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki: “We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates...”
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Today’s drawings will further develop our exploration of shape by looking closely at just a few of the underlying geometrical patterns of design found in flowers.
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Today we are taking inspiration from Buds. With tiny leaves all folded up inside, ready to burst open in the spring sunshine, they are miraculous forms.
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Through looking closely at leaves, we’re now going to move from line to shape, the next ‘fundamental’ in drawing.
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In Spring, action and change is visible everywhere, as a result of astronomical cycles. The limpet might be very unassuming and not travel very far, but it is certainly connected to celestial rhythms!
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As spring progresses, we see plants bursting into life everywhere in the environment, beginning as fragile forms like these seedlings but soon gaining strength and structure.
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Welcome to Da Voar Draw, a series of daily creative activities taking a fresh look at nature through drawing!
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There's still a few days left to register for a FREE materials pack for Da Voar Draw, a series of online art activities!
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Beginning with a series of daily activities on Instagram and Facebook @a.labourne, this new initiative will form new creative connections and take a fresh look at the natural world through drawing.
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To start creative connections in the north east of Scotland, participation in this new initiative is welcomed from individuals based in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Orkney or Shetland who have a drawing practice or interest in drawing.
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This spring, I’ll be holding two workshops with Adult Learning Shetland, ‘Gradations’ and ‘Shapes in Nature’.
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Very excitingly, my ‘Da Voar Draw’ project is one of 10 new initiatives selected by Look Again’s Creative Networks Project, based in the north east of Scotland.
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This spring, as part of encouraging well-being and creative activities here on Bressay, there will be a new drawing group.
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Yesterday was the 40th (and final) Elements, a series of online drawing activities! Thank you so much to everyone who took part, and to The Big Draw!
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In association with The Big Draw, ‘Elements’ will begin from Wednesday! Until the end of February, I’ll be posting daily drawing activities on Facebook and Instagram @a.labourne.
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Coming soon - a series of creative activities exploring nature, environment and the elements of drawing! In association with The Big Draw whose theme this year is ‘A Climate of Change’.
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Christmas is nearly here and as an early present from Bressay Development Ltd, decoration craft packs were sent out this week to every child here on Bressay!
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Happening tonight! Join us for ‘Timelines’, a drawing workshop and part of the Mind Your Head Shetland October 2020 Wellness Activity Programme.
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