What can I say, except for thank goodness for BBC iPlayer, because without it The Towers would have missed out on a very special bonding experience …….
….. to wit, BBC 2’s Life Drawing Live, except in our case it wasn’t really Live, just everso slightly secondhand!
How on earth we missed out on this little gem of audience participation of a voyeuristic artistic type bent I’ll never know, especially considering Darrell’s pronounced artistic tendencies, yet somehow we did ……. until, that is, a friend plastered their proud efforts all over their Facebook page!
Well, after seeing that, there was a most unseemly fight for the remote control between Nigel and Darrell …… while I went in more leisurely pursuit of our sketch pads and drawing implements.
Could there be any better way to spend a meltdown afternoon than by mutually drawing obliging peoples bare naked, taut bits. Our pencils were poised with not a rubber in sight, “There is no such thing as a mistake in art” Nigel announced “…. just a series of squiggles, lines and other stuff to make you ponder and embrace!”
Admittedly we all started of a little tentatively, but when we were told that we only had 30 seconds to capture the “live life”, probably to stop the accommodating models from becoming too cold or stiff, we got a wriggle on ……
The last thing we wanted was for Yusef to get a chill on his kidneys on our behalf …….
…….. so we moved swiftly, each feeling, I think, our confidence growing with every stroke of the pencil ………
…… until it was time to put our tools down and evaluate our work.
I don’t think any of us could be found wanting ………
…….considering it was our first time, I think we all gave a pretty good account of our skills …….
…… but sadly we weren't able to send pictures of our work to be appraised by the studio expert as suggested, because as I said before, we weren’t actually watching it in real time, perhaps next time though?
Our only slight criticism of the two hour programme would be perhaps upping the budget and replacing Yusef's carefully fashioned black bin bag to protect his modesty for something a tad more substantial and maybe even providing him with a softer sheepskin rug on which to pose to help prevent his delicate parts from chaffing during longer poses as a thank you for all his hard work. Happy Happy Meltdown Days!
XXX STAY ALERT XXX
1 comment:
A very good idea and some impressive artworks.
I, however, am the World's worst artist....
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