Communal drawing (part of our last evening before Christmas)

The aim of this exercise was to encourage intuitive response to pre-existing marks on the paper, whilst the mood was created by music (stride piano). Everyone had a large sheet of paper and made random marks for 2 minutes. They then passed their sheet to the left, and over the next 2 mins responded to the marks they saw, making either representational or non-representational marks of their own. The process was repeated, and when all 16 members had marked each sheet, the exercise stopped.

The pictures below show a selection of the "images" produced by the same people using the same media. There are echoes of surrealism and cave-paintings.