Inspired by a drawing class on my course I've been experimenting drawing big, first in the class with charcoal and then at home with pastels. I've got hundreds... and I've never used them, I've got quite a few unopened boxes and also a huge pencil case full that my son gave my last year so I have been having a little play. The drawing course was run by one of the fine art team and concentrated on bringing out shape and form rather then creating a accurate representation of the image we were drawing - We were asked to bring objects rather then photographs in to draw that was pertinent to our current project and I was a bit stuck as I was working of last years summer garden pictures so I took in a garden trowel and fork - not too bad a choice as it gave me quite a lot of shape and texture to work with. We only used graphite and charcoal and were encouraged to draw BIG - it was an enjoyable and strangely liberating experience. I'd never used charcoal before a...