Drawing can be so simple, but it takes practice. In this workshop you will find new tension and movement for your line work in drawing: Just like a gym workout for your creative drawing muscles. The artist duo Meeting Lines (Marcos García Pérez and Carla Schliephack) will challenge you with varied exercises from your (visual) habits and help you to release your creative blocks. 

100 years ago, the Brücke artists wanted to depict personal experiences and emotions in pictures. They not only painted what they saw, but also what they experienced or how they felt. Paintings conceal numerous narratives that are not always in the foreground. What ingredients do we need to tell stories? Together we will look for figures, places and actions in the museum that can inspire us to tell our own stories. Different materials, tools and games will help us to experiment with drawing and overcome creative blocks.

The very choice of wood as a grown material was a small revolution at the beginning of the 20th century. Exactly what earlier generations of artists had cut to size, polished smooth, or painted over appealed to the Brücke artists: grain, cracks, unevenness, even the irregularly grown form. All the randomness of nature was now incorporated into the design. It became an artistic program.