British Museum: The Museum of the World Virtual Tour

One of the fun things about my job is getting to join in sometimes...

The British Museum has created a virtual tour of some of their archives. As part of one of our creative sessions, my colleague Lucinda incorporated a research exercise into the day; to look at, draw and respond to some of the things we were seeing. 

This was always my most enjoyable part of developing a project when i was a student; drawing and responding to primary sources to create your own ideas is a great starting point for any collection. 

I chose an Assyrian sculpture that was excavated somewhere between 1845-1851, and a piece from Japan by Kitagawa Utamaro - 'A Parody of Narihira's Journey to the East'

In a sketchbook, i used a mixture of different pencil densities, watercolour pencils, biro and felt pens to quickly respond to sections of the artifacts to create interesting lines and shapes. 

If you would like to access the virtual tour of the British Museum, click on this link