Drawing From Clouds

Mark West will lead the second workshop in Drawing Matter's Public Programme - an exercise in 'Drawing From Clouds'.

This drawing method relies on precisely the same perceptual trick as seeing the "man in the moon", or seeing animals or faces when staring long into clouds. Seeing recognizable patterns in a disorganized, random, or meaningless field is called Pareidolia, and is a natural way of seeing for pattern-seeking animals like us. This approach allows you to see things, and draw things, you did not know; it is simultaneously invention and copying; a curious mixture of careful technique and automatic freedom.