A day of Inspiration..

Today I visited both the Manchester museum and the Manchester Art Gallery.

I wondered around a variety of different exhibitions, absorbing the information that was in front of my eyes, I thoroughly enjoyed taking time out to look at all of the work.

The best part of the day for me was In the Manchester museum, I was extremely inspired by one section in particular, this was the shells, fossils, crystals and minerals area.
As my project is based a lot around this kind of work, to see the actual objects in front of my eyes gave me a lot of ideas for the rest of my own practice. 
The shapes, the curves, the dents and the formations of each and every object have given me a lot of motivation to now go away and draw from exactly what I saw, taking photographic evidence is also a brilliant way for me to look back on what I discovered today. 
It was really interesting to see that the museum took a different kind of approach to its exhibitions by having a hands on attitude to the artwork, I was able to have a real feel of the shells which gave me a better idea of the kind of what kind of work I would like to do, an example of this is to have very vibrant and wild drawing work along side the most textured and experimental work that I have ever done.