Colouring the city

How do you look at the city? How do you experience colours, shapes and sounds, while at the same time your mind can be somewhere else, following the world news and talking to your friends on the other side of the globe? A city is always in motion. There is building and changing, greening and aging. There are people and opinions. And the city is the mirror of what is happening in the world.
 
This week, we will spend the first few days on the road in the city, making small-scale studies with pencil, charcoal, coloured crayons and paint in various locations. We will settle down in parks, but also in construction sites, at harbours and at intersections.
 
What will you be doing?
While making these studies, you get a small crash course in drawing and painting: you work with different drawing materials and acrylic paint. You will learn about composition and making choices, zooming in and out, about light and shadow and mixing colours.  The human figure and the portrait are also dealt with.
 
At the same time, you try to catch the momentum and make notes of what else you experience while drawing and painting: e.g. conversations you overhear, sounds you hear. Thoughts, ideas and questions that come to mind. 
 
These first days are for research; how do I represent what I want to show in line and colour? Is my perception also influenced by what I have read in the media that day? What I hear on the street? Does sound, for example, influence the colours I want to use? Would I want to write with them?
 
The last days of the week you work on a large format painted collage on paper in which you incorporate your preliminary studies and impressions in the way you want. You can combine painted pieces with other materials in your final piece.  Your personal notes; painted, drawn and written, come together in a new form: your final work.