Free Drawing School Online Challenge led by Mick Peter

Join the Free Drawing School live online every Monday at 10am.

A different drawing challenge is announced each week for you to get involved with at home between 10am-12pm guided live with an artist.

This Monday artist Mick Peter will lead the challenge. Mick is an artist who makes knotty and playful objects, drawings and installations that investigate symbols of power and authority. We are working with Mick on the 2021 Annual Sculpture Commission.

The Free Drawing School Online continues over the spring and summer with many more challenges as we invite lots of guest artists to design the weekly challenge for you to join in with.

The Free Drawing School challenges are designed to be done at home with the resources you can bring together from your drawers and cupboards.

What you’ll need:
• Pencil
• Pen
• A4 paper
• Pair of scissors
• Colouring things (e.g. pencils / pens /paint / ink)
• Internet access
• A camera phone/scanner (if you would like to share your work, and we hope you will)

Details
The details of the challenge will be announced here and on social media at 10.00am.

You will have two hours in which to complete the challenge and post your work either in the comments on the Facebook event for others to see or on twitter or instagram with the hashtag #freedrawingschool.

You can also email your outcomes to kirsten@hospitalfield.org.uk

The Free Drawing School is made possible with generous funding support from The Robertson Trust and The National Heritage Lottery Fund.

This challenge is set by Mick Peter. Mick is an artist who makes knotty and playful objects, drawings and installations that investigate symbols of power and authority. We are working with Mick on the 2021 Annual Sculpture Commission.

Instructions:

1. WIDER/TALLER or WIDER/LONGER – draw something that gets taller or longer when you open up the pop up.
2. REVEAL – draw a scene that create’s a new scene when you open up. Surprise!
3. HIGH TECH ANIMATION – Animate two drawings using this ‘High Tech’ method.

For 1 & 2 – WIDER/TALLER or WIDER/LONGER or REVEAL:

• Carefully cut your A4 paper in half and cut or rip length-ways to form a long strip.
• Fold this strip in half.
• Turn the paper over and fold back edges to meet the centre crease.
• Now, take the two wings you’ve made and make sure folds A and B are touching and aligned.
• Keeping A + B together squash the your paper flat to make two more folds.
• To make the image pop out bring fold A+B together and then pull the whole thing open to reveal what’s in the drawing.

For 3 – HIGH TECH ANIMATION:

• Carefully cut your A4 paper in half and cut or rip length-ways to form a long strip.
• Fold this strip in half.
• Unfold and draw the second part of the animation first in a nice dark pen.
• Fold in half again, using the image you can see through the paper draw the other frame of your animation.
• When you’re done roll the top sheet tightly round a pencil.
• Flick the paper back and forth to animate the drawing.

Ready…DRAW!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Pop-Up Pictures Challenge. Here are some of the drawings created…

All images and videos courtesy of the challenge participants. Video editing courtesy of Hospitalfield.