Drawing Tuesday - Wellcome Collection

Last Tuesday was a very rainy morning so I sat in the cafe for a while to dry off, and got out the pieces of fresh chalk I'd collected from the cliffs at Saltdean during my cat-sitting weekend. While wrapping them in tissue paper  so they wouldn't make a mess in people's bags, I started drawing some of them from various angles, using an indigo inktense pencil -

 and experimenting with using the chalk to smudge (and intensify) the colour ... which led to trying other types of pencil.

 Eventually I went into the Electricity exhibition and mussed about with this'n'that -

The film by Bill Morrison was great - an animation of the physical basis of electric current, and its distribution. See scenes from it here. "In a commissioned film, American artist and filmmaker Bill Morrison used material from the Electricity Council archive at MSI (the Museum of Science and Industry) in Manchester to create a visual journey that explores the production and distribution of electricity and its profound impact on our daily lives. "

Michelle had based one of her drawings on the film - and the other, the sprite, came from a vintage label -

 Jo was intrigued by this early electric motor, the Barlow's wheel (1822; read how it works here) -

 Mags found Edison's first lightbulb -

 Janet K put a lot of nails into this Nkisi figure -

The "round" fish on Najlaa's ancient plate is electric -

 Carol limited herself to using one colour -

 Judith was upstairs drawing the marvellous staircase -

 ... and here it is on its lower level (with an Antony Gormley sculpture nearby)

 Sue found a striking head -

 Extracurricular activities

Janet K has been drawing the nasturtiums on her patio

Carol has been examining and capturing irises

  Coincidentally...

Great minds think alike...

And again, a visual coincidence 

... which gave us another chance to see Mags' "electric" sketchbook