Drawing: Plugging Away

Reading: "The Undressed Art: Why We Draw" by Peter Steinhart

Challenge: Draw from life/photos; draw stories without words.

I'm not that interested in sketching good representations. Attitude about that: "hand me the camera." But I'm getting into the energy of drawing — how it engages my mind and what happens on the paper that I hadn't planned.

Practice. I tore pages from magazines. Bland faces, interesting positions. Sketched the woman, then sketched the unrelated man sitting on the same bench. Fiddled with their eyes. Hmm... They began to interact.

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There is distance between them (she's dressy; he's informal). He is withdrawn (eyes, mouth). She is intrigued (eyes, the shoe) but self-protective (arm across her body). Several different stories come to mind. She is... a stranger? his boss? his therapist?

(Go, Cards)

10.27.06

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