Instructions for making plunger fork tool. Drawing for the trigger assembly.
drawing and making - Pitt Rivers Museum · PDF fileIt is designed to help students explore the...
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Most art groups that visit the Pitt Rivers come to draw and expect to leave with a selection of high-quality studies for future reference. This section looks at a range of materials and techniques that can be used in the Museum. It is designed to help students explore the varied and exciting ways of recording through drawing and making.
drawingand making
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Head ornament of macaw feathers, Achuar, Peru
The materials that can be used in the Museum are limited to ensure the safety of the collections, but there are still many approaches that artists can utilise. Not all rely on pencils and paper.
Consider bringing some of these materials:• Pencils(verysofttoveryhard)• Colouredpencils(includingwhite)• Fine-linerpens• Biros• Colouredpaperandcard(includingblack)• Tissuepaper• Collagematerials(fabric,pipecleaners,string,etc.)• Scissors• Gluesticks(water-based)• Staplers
On the following pages there are examples of how these mixed media have been used to record objects in the Museum.
What, no charcoal?
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Throwing knife,Democratic Republicof Congo
Barkcloth,(toprowfromlefttoright)Hawaii,Nicaragua,TaveuniIsland,Fiji
ThePittRiversMuseumHandbookisacollaborativeeffort,andtheMuseum’sEducationServiceisindebtedtoallthosewhohave offered advice and support. ThankstoDeclanMcCarthy,SuzyPrior,ChrisJarvis,FloraBain,PhillipGrover,ChristopherMorton,KateWhite,KateWebber,JeremyCoote,AliceLePage,SianMundell,MikeO’Hanlon,CarolineCheeseman,ClareHarris,MalcolmOsman,OrlaCrean,GeoffreyLawson,JaneMcDonald,JanRuddock,EmmaBush,HannahDingwell,AlisonFincher,SeldaKilic,SolangeMateo,TabassumRasheed,Beth,MarthaSwales,EricaTso,FreddySachs,theEducationServiceattheDesignMuseum,theWaddingtonGalleries,theBloombergSpaceandtheLicensedVictuallers’School.
acknowledgements
AllimagesandphotosinthisbookarecopyrightPittRiversMuseumunlessotherwisestated.MuseumphotosbySuzyPriorandMalcolmOsman,artworkbyAdrianBrooks,AndrewMcLellanandMelodyVaughan.
Page 5: Handstitchedmola,Panama(1924.46.65).Page 7: Headornamentofmacawfeathers.Achuar,Peru(1945.7.25).Page 8:Throwingknife,DemocraticRepublicofCongo(1908.65.2).Page 9:Barkcloth,(toprowfromlefttoright)Hawaii,Nicaragua,TaveuniIslandFiji(1886.1.1203,1908.5.36,1914.56.23,bottomrow1914.56.34,1884.87.82).Page 10:Mask.PapuaNewGuinea(1906.74.1).