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Learning to Paint – Leapday

Around a dozen friends gathered in London yesterday to take advantage of Leapday. We were hosted by the very fabulous Coopers Natural Foods. Amongst other things we practiced drawing and coaching, and we got some fantastic water colour tips from V…

The image below shows one of the busy shelves at Coopers. It also shows two pencil drawings I made of a pencil. The one at the top left was before being coached, the one shown bottom right was the after result. In this image you can also see two examples of me playing with wet paint on a wet and dry background. I had not tried painting wet on wet before yesterday and the results interested me. The final part of the image is a grape, painted using the wet on wet technique.

I really enjoyed our Leapday session and I hope I don’t have to wait another four years to experience such a useful fun day again.

Postcards From the Edge

I am at the edge, the edge of France 🙂

One of the things I want to practice on this trip is drawing and painting. I thought it might be fun to draw and paint a few postcards, and I wondered if you would like one? If you want to participate in this experiment just drop me a direct message on Twitter with your address or send it via the contact us page on this website. I will make the cards on a first come first served basis and I reserve the right to close the list at any time. I draw pretty slowly!

I will post images of the cards on Twitpic before I snail mail them to you.

Thanks for playing.

Corine Zoopler

You have 120 seconds to co-create something. Don’t hang about.

Sitting in pairs or a group of three, take a blank piece of paper. Take turns to draw a part of a face. Draw, pass on. Quickly now, you only have 70 seconds to complete the face. And of course you don’t know how your colleague will interpret your previous move. A picture quickly emerges, the face is complete.

Now name the face, one letter at a time. Write, pass it on. Quickly now, you only have 50 seconds to complete the face. And of course you don’t know how your colleague will interpret your previous move. You write C for Charlie, they write O for COlin, you write R for CORy, and so it goes on.

Say hello to Corine Zoopler, it’s amazing what you can co create from a tiny idea and very little time. With thanks to David Zinger for the idea and Katie and Liz for helping to make the drawing.

This tiny experiment emerged at David Zinger’s “Think different inside our hives” workshop which took place in London today. More on this – very soon.