Some of us were in the Flight Gallery -
Dioramas have fallen out of favour, so it was nice to see this one of the Wright Brothers' first flight -
I found somewhere to sit near this engine, the
De Havilland Ghost (1947) - turns out it powered the first passenger jet flights -
I started out with blind drawing - literally, with my glasses off - and then had a closer look at the central area, leaving the blind-drawing around the edges -
Eventually it was the criss-crossing tubing that caught my eye, so I started any old where and rubbed out when those first lines needed realignment -
Often you get school groups stopping to look at the drawing and usually they're very complimentary. This time they couldn't figure out what I was actually drawing so I held the book up to the engine, to the astonishment of one little girl: "They look the same!" (I was very pleased to hear it.)
It looks like this is the part that distributes the gas to the compression chambers, which are behind the blades. One part of this component (distributor??) is cut away to show the inner workings - hence the tube that ends in mid-air.
Janet K drew four biplanes, or bits of them -
Mags focussed on plane wings -
Judith was intrigued by the glider on runners -
... and the Morane-Saulnier Parasol, 1915 -
Elsewhere, Najlaa found an aluminium handbag and some microbes
... and had another go at a bridge drawn previously -
Carol reclaimed some domestic items she'd known from her youth -
Janet B warmed up with a sewing machine -
... went on to a teas-made -
... and also a cooker with an eye-level grill (drawn from a sitting position) -
Extracurricularly, Najlaa brought along a weaving experiment -
... and Mags brought this little book based on a 2004 exhibition at the British Library -
With Xmas in mind, Janet K had been using mosaic tiles to embellish a flower pot -
Judith had been in the US for five weeks, and during visits to music venues she filled a sketchbook with people (they obligingly sat still, listening...) -
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