Drawing Tuesday - King's Place

The level 1 gallery at King's Place has a good show - or had? I can't find information about it!  I was so busy looking at the work that I was late starting my own work, which was based on Bryan Kneale's giraffe skeleton drawing -

close up

a pale imitation

Others had been elsewhere ....

Lynn Chadwick sculpture by Janet K

"I liked the designs" said Sue

One of the Jeff Lowe pieces, by Joyce

Carol tackled the architecture

Judith's rhino, two ways

Two views of Julie Brook's "burning stacks" by Jo

 Drawings from the David Nash exhibition in Eastbourne -

Joyce

Janet K

I had been to see that exhibition earlier, and did some quick drawings in the small sketchbook -

small pieces

A "leaner" in the corner, and  "Platter and Bowl" 1988

The cafe terrace was delightfully colourful on a grey day! (drawn sitting down, photographed standing up) -

Further extracurricular activities from the group, in paper and stitch -

Drawing Tuesday - Royal Academy

A temporary display from the RA archives -

 We weren't too bothered who was who, but there's a guide -

(click to enlarge)

So many people had been drawing, encouraged by the materials left lying around

but we took our work home with us -

Joyce

Judith - one of three

second of three

third one in the trio

Jo - one of many!

Janet B - one of many!

Sue

Janet K

 Najlaa had been elsewhere in the building -

and so had I, tucked in an alcove with a soaring view of the massive Hercules. He was too big to fit into the photo -

... and tricky to fit onto the page.

Seen, enjoyed, photographed, noted

Display of postcards from the printmaking department's postcard exchange at Morley Collete

... including one of mine

my favourite

The kinetic work of Takis at Tate Modern - most of my pix are videos and I've never figured out how to put videos on blogger

 Also at Tate Modern, Olafur Eliasson's retrospective (till 5 January 2020) includes things, maquettes, light, liquids, fog... ideas, ideas, ideas -

Selfie in the fog - the fog was yellow, the camera lies!

 At Bankside Gallery,  wonderful watercolours in "The Art of Travel" (till 9 November) -

Gertie Young

Anne Lynch

 At Japan House, lovely exhibition of the illustrations of Anno Mitsumata, which made excellent use of scaled-up versions of his papercuts for window display (till 27 Oct) -

 At National Portrait Gallery, drawings by Elizabeth Eyton (till 5 January) -

 Society of Graphic Fine Art at Menier Gallery (till 2 November) -

 Antony Gormley at the RA - good to see his varied early work -

Land Sea and Air (lead cases for stone, water, air)

In the RA magazine he said that the work started on an excursion with his brother:

Other favourites -

Blanket Drawing - drawn with clay - handle with care

A lead bowl. A bowl full of lead. Heavy.

"Grasp" - altered stone

 Love the simplicity of the drawings -

 ... and the multiplicity of the notebooks (four vitrines) -