DRAWING in LONDON's MUSEUMS

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Verrocchio drawing

'Head of a Woman' by Verocchio - from the British Museum website

Drawing the Human Figure &

Renaissance Drawings at the British Museum

June 26, 2010

Learning to create gesture and a sense of movement, as well as measurement and proportion of the human figure.

 

Wallace Collection

A gallery in the Wallace Collection - from the museum website

Drawing Interior Spaces

at the Wallace Collection

May 22, 2010

An investigation of one-point perspective using the Wallace Collection's ornate period rooms as subjects for drawing.

 

V&A image

Drawing the Head at the V & A

February 27, 2010

Learning the proportions of the human head and how to capture facial expression from scultpure in the newly renovated Medieval and Rennaisance galleries.

petrie pots

Drawing from London's Hidden Museums

October 16 - December 11, 2009

At the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeaology, the British Museum, the Grant museum of Zoology, the Wellcome Collection, the UCL GEological Collection, the Sir John Soane Museum, the Hunterian Collection, and Pollack's Toy Museum. Course covered foundations techniques of drawing.

marcia with student

Drawing from the British Museum

June 12 - July 3, 2009

Four intensive Fridays. Course covered foundations of drawing, from how to get started to creating the illusion of three-dimensionality. Students drew from objects in quiet corners of the museum, such as the Korean, Mexican, African, Enlightenment and Ancient Roman collections.