Vancouver Draw Down 2011

Vancouver Draw Down 2011 is over, but this website can still help you get inspired to draw. 

All of the Vancouver Draw Down drawing activities focused on the process and pleasure of drawing, rather than skill and technical ability. Participants were invited to suspend critical judgment and share their creativity in social settings using a range of drawing materials.

We invite you to explore this site and discover how you can get drawn back to drawing.

Check out photos from all of the finale events that took place on Saturday, July 23 on our Finale Events page. 

Visit our Creatures Gallery, Doodle Gallery, Faces Gallery and Pinprick Birds Gallery to see samples of our Draw Down activities along with detailed do-it-yourself instructions. 

Find out more about our Daily Drawing Project and browse through the daily drawing instructions posted on this website and Twitter during the 23 days of this project. 

Look through other peoples' responses to the daily drawing instructions in our Daily Drawing Project Gallery, and try them out yourself. You can chose the challenging instructions (15 minute drawings for people with more drawing experience or time), or the just for fun instructions (5 minute drawings for people with less experience and/or time). 

If you send in your drawings based on these instructions before Saturday, July 30 we'll add them to our Daily Drawing Project Gallery (be sure to include the date of the instruction you've used).
  
Participating Organizations

Vancouver Draw Down workshops and the Saturday, July 23 finale events were presented at each of these organizations: Britannia Community Centre, Carnegie Community Centre + Oppenheimer Park, Creekside Recreation Community Centre, Kitsilano Community Centre, Sunset Community Centre + Moberly Arts and Culture Centre, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Roundhouse Community Arts + Recreation Centre and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Vancouver Draw Down 2011 was presented in partnership with the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.

You have until Saturday, July 30 to send us scans or photographs of your Daily Drawing Project drawings, or drawings based on the instructions you find on the gallery pages and we'll include them in our galleries. Email us jpeg files no larger than 72 dpi, 1024 X 768 pixels.

All drawings featured in our galleries remain anonymous 

This year Vancouver Draw Down was pleased to collaborate with Vancouver DRAWN, an exciting festival of drawing taking place
July 16 - August 6, 2011. Vancouver-area galleries and museums will host a special series of exhibitions devoted to the medium of drawing. Vancouver DRAWN also includes an exciting program of free lectures, gallery tours, exhibition openings, artist talks, and more.

For more information visit: www.drawnfestival.ca

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