has news for those who think they can barely draw a stick figure. If desire to draw is there, says the 麻豆传媒映画artist, just about anyone can learn to express themselves through pen and ink.
Drawing is seeing and thinking, says Morstad, reached at her East Van home. Its basically about slowing down and looking, too. I definitely do think drawing is a very important and very learnable skill.
To illustrate her point (pun intended), Morstad who might best be known for her cover art for the 2006 Neko Case album is taking part in . The annual daylong art celebration (Sat., June 9) offers 27 free workshops in 19 locations across Vancouver.
Murals, typography, portraits and still lifes are among the many different types of drawing that will be discussed, taught and encouraged, for artists of all different levels of experience, from the closet Pictionary buff and practised doodler to those who want to show off their mad charcoal skills.
Morstads workshop, at (621 Kingsway, from 2 4 p.m.), is called Circus! Aimed at three-to-six-year-olds though anyone is welcome the idea is to create a paper circus, complete with elephants, ringleaders, and other big-tent characters.
Therell be items designed by me, like drawings and colouring pages, says Morstad. Theyll be interactive so kids can cut them out and add to them and do their own drawing.
A mom of three and a childrens book illustrator, Morstad has another, more macabre side to her. In eerie, elegant drawings, some of which she has collected in one volume (Milk Teeth) with another on the way, little girls are held captive by their own hair and miniature women, stranded on top of a dapper gentlemans head, tumble off one by one.
With my own work, Im trying to describe things that are hard to explain with words, she says. I usually have an image, then try to figure out what it means later.
But thats for another workshop.
June 9s 麻豆传媒映画Draw Down is the biggest one yet with participation from ArtStarts in Schools, Collage Collage, Contemporary Art Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Mountain View Cemetery, Museum of Anthropology, Satellite Gallery, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 麻豆传媒映画Art Gallery, and numerous 麻豆传媒映画Parks Board Community Centres..
