You Encounter To A Greater Extent Than When You Lot Depict #Startdrawing

The Rijksmuseum has started a crusade - #startdrawing - to acquire to a greater extent than people drawing. I promise the fine art museums inwards this solid pose down laissez passer on the crusade their endorsement too.

“In our busy lives nosotros don’t ever realize how beautiful something tin travel be. We forget how to hold off actually closely. Drawing helps because you run across to a greater extent than when you lot draw. People who desire to depict are ever welcome inwards the Rijksmuseum.”

Wim Pijbes, General Director Rijksmuseum

First - something of what happened concluding calendar month during the #start drawing campaign.

Then around of my sketches done inwards fine art galleries together with museums!

The Rijksmuseum used a banner to holler for people should halt taking photos together with outset drawing!

In Oct - every bit business office of the Big Draw - the Rijksmuseum launched a large-scale crusade called #startdrawing.  The museum edifice featured a large banner encouraging drawing together with ‘banning’ photography.

The aim was to assistance visitors notice together with appreciate the beauty of fine art together with history through drawing – because you run across to a greater extent than when you lot draw together with acquire closer to the artists’ secrets.

It invited people to take in the museum’s galleries to depict together with larn how to hold off at art

You can:

• check out the drawings produced past times looking at Instagram together with using the #startdrawing tag to search
• get around inspiration from the collection of drawings inwards the Rijksmuseum - I dearest looking at these

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The crusade is carrying on later on the Big Draw calendar month of October

The museum wants to arrive clear that anyone who wants to depict inwards the Rijksmuseum volition ever last welcome.

From straightaway on every Sat volition last Drawing Day together with visitors volition last able to selection upward a sketchbook at the Information Desk. During each flavor throughout the twelvemonth at that spot volition last Drawing Tours together with populace drawing lessons amongst the regular programme inwards the Drawing School.

#startdrawing is made possible inwards business office past times the Rijkmuseum's master copy sponsor ING

This is the Rijksmuseum's Facebook Page

For to a greater extent than data nigh the #startdrawing crusade acquire to www.rijksmuseum.nl/startdrawing

When was the concluding fourth dimension you lot went drawing inwards the fine art galleries together with museums you lot visit?

Here's are iii of my rattling many sketches done inwards galleries together with museums inwards the concluding few years. It's sure been my sense that you run across to a greater extent than when you lot draw!

Viewing Renoir Landscapes at the National Gallery (2007)
pencil together with coloured pencils inwards Moleskine sketchbook

High Watermark at the Mall Galleries (2011)
pen together with ink together with coloured pencils inwards Moleskine sketchbook

Judy at the Wallace Collection (2009)
pen together with ink

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