Open Drawing / virtual courses
Courses open on different days and times, in Spanish and English. Write to us and we will send you the available options for days and times.
Classes are virtual, 2 hours long, with one session per week.
Inquiries and registration:
Marcela Rapallo
marcelarapallo@gmail.com
Upcoming courses
In June, two one-month courses begin:
Drawn Dialogues
Introductory course to Open Drawing.
Dramaturgy of Live Drawing
A course focused on developing a live drawing script.
In August-September, a two-month course begins:
On Stage Drawing Project
A course focused on the development and guidance of an on stage drawing project.
Drawn Dialogues
Drawn Dialogues is the introductory course to Open Drawing, a series of virtual courses that explore live drawing in relation to other people, space, and real-time animation tools.
In this course, we will learn the foundations of this language, exploring different resources for drawing live and animating traces in real time.
Through guided practices in Trazos Club, we will experiment with forms of dialogue, listening, and improvisation through drawing, developing strategies for collective composition and shared drawing.
At first, it is hard to imagine “what it is like,” but in just a few minutes the logic becomes clear, and a comment often appears after the first practices: “I don’t want to stop doing this.”
Dramaturgy of Live Drawing
In this course, we will develop a live drawing script, exploring drawing as a time-based art and as a practice capable of creating scenes, rhythms, transformations, and its own forms of storytelling.
Through exercises in improvisation, composition, and real-time animation, we will rehearse ways of narrating through drawing, considering its relationship with the stage space and with other elements of theatrical language.
The screen will become a drawing surface, a stage, and a rehearsal space, allowing us to imagine how these experiences might later move beyond the screen, into scenic, performative, or installation-based contexts.
On Stage Drawing Project
In this course, each participant will develop an on stage drawing project, focused on working with live drawing, real-time animation, and possible forms of projection in space.
Over two months, we will explore drawing as a time-based art, in dialogue with physical space and with languages such as animation, audiovisual arts, music, dance, theater, or performance.
The course will combine live drawing practices during synchronous meetings, asynchronous activities by each participant, and work-in-progress clinic spaces, where we will share processes and support the development of each person’s ideas.
We will work with the Trazos Club ecosystem, using the online platform Trazos Club and the software Andiamo to imagine, rehearse, and project an on stage drawing work or experience. Having a projector is not necessary to participate.
About the Open Drawing virtual courses
In Open Drawing, we open drawing practice into several dimensions:
Time
We draw live and, through digital effects, animate in real time the lines we make by hand. Because the image transforms at the very moment we are creating it, the present moment becomes the center of the experience: drawing means being there, and the drawing is built through time, like a story being told and imagined by the person listening. The drawing becomes a moving narration, lived through transformations and held in memory.
Space
We create digital lines that can be projected into space. This allows the surface we draw on to be an object, a wall, a building, a tree, a person, or an animal. We can project onto still surfaces or draw onto life in motion.
Dialogue
We draw with other people. Collective drawing enables a way of communicating with images, without the need for words: we propose, listen, respond, and build images through dialogue, as if we were a music band.
Play
We always begin from play. Play is both the method and the entry point: through simple prompts, we open ourselves to the freedom of exploring. We learn a language through enjoyment.
Scene
Because drawing transforms in time, it can become a scenic action. The role of the person drawing live appears, a drawer on stage, in dialogue with the space and with those who act, dance, or make music.
Open technologies
To make this possible, we use tools from the Trazos Club ecosystem, free and collaborative technologies for real-time animation that allow the line to move and transform in the moment. In some workshops we also work with Tagtool, explore programs that were not originally designed for live drawing, and integrate analog media.
Who it is for
Open Drawing courses are aimed both at people with no previous experience and at image professionals, illustrators, teachers, and people who draw every day and want to add a new way of drawing live, in groups, and in relation to space. Drawing is accessible to anyone: this practice can be relearned, reinvented, and shared.
