Hello,
Last week I took myself for a midweek museum visit. I picked one of my favourite museums which I've been to countless times, the V&A. I always feel so lucky to have such a fantastic museum within easy reach of me, and since I moved to London many years ago it's been a staple place to visit for me. I always come away so inspired by what I've seen, and it really seems to fire up the creative juices!
I intended to sketch on site a lot more than I actually did, but in the end I did a lot more looking, wandering, and took a lot more photos that I could use as reference later. The plan then was just to sketch freely, drawing from what I'd seen, and seeing what ideas would come along as I did. Once I got home I picked a long random piece of paper that was a wonky end from a roll of paper I have, and just began drawing. It was so much fun. I was completely absorbed in that drawing, it didn't matter how it turned out or what came about to draw next, I was just letting it flow very naturally and it felt wonderful. I wanted to just sketch with pencil and without colour, as this is something I've only been using recently to do very quick drawings, so I really wanted to explore using just that one medium. I was so happy with how it turned out and it has produced seeds of new ideas which may or may not be taken further (more scribbling is due to commence)! It's also definitely taken my mind off into new subject matter which is always a bonus, and was something that I really hoped would happen. To top it all off the whole process has given me an enormous amount of pleasure which has been an amazing gift to me. I could have just carried on drawing and drawing if the paper hadn't run out!
This is the full drawing.
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