Drawing by Touch

Workshop title: Drawing by Touch
Presenter: Douglas Cooper, Andrew Mellon Professor of Architecture
Time: 1PM - 3:30PM
Date: Thursday Oct 04 2018
Location: The Centre for Digital Media. 685 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC V5T 0C6
Room: The Hanger

This workshop is being held in conjunction with the Sketching In Practice Symposium on Oct 05 2018, to find out more go to http://sketchpractice.ca

Description

There is a large body of research within Embodied Cognition that finds a correlation between spatial thinking and hand gestures—e.g. the kind of gestures we make when giving someone directions. With this as background, this workshop will explore the spatially expressive drawing exercises of author/teacher Kimon Nicolaides: The Natural Way to Draw (1941). His pedagogy was directed squarely at the action of the hand itself in making a drawing and suggests an underlying reason why drawing by hand may still matter even in the digital age.

In the workshop we will draw from projected images to explore Nicolaides’ pedagogy—principally his contour, modeled and gestural exercises. Materials will be soft conté crayon on newsprint (available at the workshop). No substantial prior drawing experience is necessary.