Visit to the castle musuem

Today, the class visited the castle museum. Our objective to draw the environment and life of exhibitions; the displays and the people who observe them. Which proved to be an interesting day, trying to draw life in a museum...

(My first attempt: Wild life scene)

Settling down in the wild life section, I began drawing the display, which I realised it was so busy the more I began to look, I would constantly see new things. This enabled me to layer my drawing. I drew straight into my A3 sketchbook, using a Sharpe marker, and then adding water colour ontop. I created a scene in which I hoped to capture people looking at- however, looking bold with such a large sketchbook, I found that many avoided this display and me.
The sketchbook enabled me much more space to play with, however it faulted that it made others comfortable so I could not draw them.

I decided to look else where for life, even though it was other students drawing displays.

Even though I was not able to capture the nature of life exhibiting the museum displays, I was able to capture the atmosphere of students drawing displays; the relationship with the body pose and the display they are drawing. The way they choose to stand/sit. 

I did some drawings in my A5 sketchbook, that enabled me to draw a lot more subtly with out upsetting the scene that I am drawing; the only problem was that I needed to move the drawings to my main sketchbook, which lead to pages having to be split into two, or accidently having parts ripped off. 

 I also found it interesting to draw the displays, the way that there is a focus on one thing, yet through the structure you can spot other things through the glass.
Or how busy one display maybe.