The Tree of 1000 Stories

This is a time laps of our latest  drawing workshop, which was held at Birmingham Central Library.

Details of the "flying book of Birmingham" installation.

The drawings produced were gradually added to the "flying pages" Installation, which changed and evolved across the duration of the Festival.

Book of Birmingham

Come along this week or next to join us at The Birmingham Book festival in the library. The 1000 stories team invites you to participate in our latest art installation, the Book of Birmingham. Share you personal experience and tell your story through words and images using a range of simple mark making and drawing techniques, before adding your contribution to the flying pages of the Book of Birmingham installation in the pop-up bookshop.

Spend some time or simply drop in for a moment to add your ‘visual voice’ to the many fragments. Join us, let your story be part of the installation, be creative and make your mark!

The Birmingham Book Festival runs from the 4^th October until 13^th October at the Birmingham Library, weekdays 10am – 5.30pm, Saturdays 9am – 4.30pm, Sunday the library is closed. 

Find more information about the Festival here.

The view from the outside in

Workshop at Birmingam Museum and Art Gallery

To follow up our first workshop at the BMAG, the Outline team worked once more with a group of participants from the Friends of the gallery. After a brief demonstration by Ian Andrews, the participants used the same methods that artist would use to establish accuracy and proportion in their drawings. The practical workshop at the gallery was concluded by Graham Lawler with an art historical analysis of proportion within the work of past and present artists.

 Above: Observational drawings produced during the workshop on accuracy and proportion.

Olympic Family Day

Experimental drawing workshop at the Olympic family day held at the Matthew Boulton campus. The drawing workshops were combined with a host of other activities across the College celebrating the carrying of the Olympic torch by the principal and two college students. This exercise is designed to encourage those not  involved in art to express themselves through the tracing of a body shape that expresses something about their feelings on the day.

Hold still mum almost finished.

Some body shapes were more flexible than others as the sports team came to participate.

Participants were asked to express their stories through the position of their bodies and this father has obviously had a hard day!