Life Drawing Session - Friends Institute, Moseley, Birmingham

By Saranjit Birdi 2011

Saranjit Birdi

Dimensions
32 x 42

This is a series of works from life drawing sessions held every Tuesday at the Friends Institue, Moseley, Birmingham. I became fascinated by the poses, mannerisms, animation and concentration of the other artists engaged in the act of drawing the model. I was also interested in the contrast between the frozen or languid pose of the model compared with the postures and repeated movements of the artists. All drawings are from life and not photographs.

Saranjit Birdi

Saranjit Birdi

This drawing was created live over four days through August 2012 and is part of an ongoing series titled 'Limits'. begun in 2011 at the Folkestone Triennial Fringe Festival. The process was to stand on the paper and draw using both feet, overall the drawing took around 12 hours. The fun part was meeting the locals in the hustle and bustle of the market nearby and in some cases creating portraits of them as they looked down at the work. The work was video documented.