Today we drew the Queen

 For the scale project, artist John Bentley came in to do a drawing workshop with us considering scale and using it in a differnt way. The project took scale to the extreame where we were all given a small segment of an anonymous picture to blow up to A1 size.

Segment of photograph and my drawing blown up.

My drawing, blown up to A1

The tiny segment of the photograph.

Step 1, tape it together.

Step 2, role it up. carefully! 

Step 3, get it to the balcony.

Step 4, turn it around! 

Step 4. Drop carefully, and there is the Queen in all her glory. 

You can see my section, it makes sense now.

Drawing up to such a big scale was so so much fun today as we all worked as a team to create something great. I think the image works so well because people were drawing without any knowledge of what they were drawing, and so lost the subconscious attempt to create perfection and just drew what they saw. That's what I did anyway, I had no idea I was drawing pearls but if i had i wonder if it would have looked quite the same.