Day Four: Malaga

Today we went Malaga. There were some great exhibitions on and it was a good day for photographs and drawing.

The Alcazabar was my favourite location of the day last time and it didn't disappoint on a second visit! It is a most beautiful place - I love all that moorish styling and with a new found mode of 'useful drawing' I had a great day!

Here are my 'surface patterns' from the day:

And a more painterly psychedelic study:

There was an exhibition by Subodh Gupta: The Imaginary Order of things at the Contemporary Art Gallery which was excellent. My favourite pieces from the show ticked the texture box that I have been collecting:

The window holes invited you into another world: 

There were other sculptures playing with mirrors/concealment:

The 'combine' sculptures were my most favourite:

Along with the simplistic vessel forms:

The composition

And the layering

I mean look at it - wow!

That's some more details to add to my list then...hanging, fixing, rope and thread

We discussed relief painting in ceramics during the tutorial and ideas behind installation. I think this is the area I want to explore with my work. Although I would like to try lots of other materials, I can save some of that for later. Having enjoyed working with ceramics over the past few years I would like to challenge my current uses of it and perhaps incorporate more drawing... a good day though, on lots of levels, it's off to the sugar factory tomorrow - yippee!

Day Three: Malaga

We head out to Malaga today. A few vists planned; first stop was to the old Moorish settlement Alcazaba de Malaga. I loved this venue. I have an affinity with Moorish architecture and its stylings, and here it was in complete abundance - WOW! Taking the advice from last nights tutorial, and the short discussion on composition, I walked around the settlement, choosing my favourite spots to work from. I took lots of pictures of the interiors:

But it was when I came round to draw that I really had a great time!

We then went on to the Contemporary Art Gallery and visited Picasso's old sherry bar:

We drank dry and sweet sherry, and found they had a very cool way of keeping your tab 

(in chalk on the bar top!)

Malaga's old town had some beautiful street scenes:

whilst being dotted with quirky installations...

I loved these olympians:

and this bench too - WOW!

After the gallery we had a short break in the rest garden outside the cathedral. I made the most of this space of moving figures and scribbled down a page of quick sketches, which I enjoyed.

Exciting tutorial - we are all producing some different and interesting work...I wonder what the remiander of the week will bring...?