{"id":9162,"date":"2018-05-21T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T09:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2018-05-21T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T09:37:05","slug":"drink-and-draw-at-the-museum-of-classical-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/2018\/05\/21\/drink-and-draw-at-the-museum-of-classical-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink and Draw at the Museum of Classical Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"

One gallery. Two expert artists. Heaps of pencils and lashings of white wine. It can only mean Drink and Draw!<\/h2>\n

The Museum of Classical Archaeology<\/a> has been a haven for artists for aeons, with its gallery jam-packed full of casts of the masterpieces of classical art. But in May 2015 I decided to build on this popularity by tapping into the popular idea of Drink and Draw, events which take place nationwide and beyond in which adults can sketch in a relaxed environment with a pencil in one hand and a drink in the other. What better venue for this sort of event, we thought, than our Cast Gallery, filled with hundreds of casts for our visitors to test their drawing skills on? I even like to think that this is our own playful take on the important role casts have traditionally played in an artist\u2019s training: many art schools used to have plaster cast collections so that artists could practise drawing the human form. We\u2019ve just added wine into the equation.<\/p>\n

A Facebook Live walk-around this May’s event:
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