UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

Leonardo Da Vinci Ankle muscles of a paw

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William Kentridge  detail from Thinking Aloud 

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Albrecht Dürer Muzzle of an Ox

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Up Close and Personal is run by Deborah Beck. It involves two days of intense drawing at the Australian Museum in College Street, where students will have access to all the public spaces to work on at least 10 studies.  Students can take advantage of the chance to get up close to the objects in the museum, and will be given a choice of drawing closely cropped sections of heads of animals, parts of skeletons, feet or claws, skin textures or architectural details of the museum.

The final two days of drawing week will be spent at the NAS working on very large drawings based on the studies. The large scale works will provide an opportunity for bold expressive drawings. These works will involve changing the scale and materials used at the museum, so very small drawings can be scaled up to fill a large sheet, or the surface can be altered by adding ink, watercolour, charcoal or collage.