Drawing, week 2

Starting with two basic shapes, adding another, and another, to fill the sheet of paper... We get into groups and talk about them, select our "favourites", then use the awareness of shapes to do an elevation of an object (an electric pencil sharpener in this case) -

After lunch, back to those basic shapes - they become 3D and we have to arrange them somehow -

Going round the group, with everyone saying what size these would be, and what materials and colours they would be. From the way the clay behaves when it rolls into cylinders (the ends sink in) I see these as beads made in glass or resin, crackled inside but smooth outside, the different thicknesses giving it degrees of opacity.
Homework is drawings that will develop our ideas. We photograph our bits of clay and destroy them.

Here's a closeup of that wire-dipped-in-paper-pulp bird that sits in the tree outside the building -