Drawings are at once the heartbeat, the bones, the musculature, and the spirit of all art. Drawings constitute a unique language for each artist, and the viewer is privileged to glimpse the skeletal elements of the art process first-hand. Drawings are personal: they reveal , they are intended as notes, they are a means to an end, and they represent the embryo of genius...the moment of an artist's truth.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Multiple
Multiple times had the ancient mariner sought to catch the great beast of the sea. This, too, would be yet another unsuccessful attempt - as this shark was just too smart to be brought down by such a feeble-minded fool.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Theory
Everyone has theories. I have a theory that students in my class will create noticeably more dimensionally robust drawings of objects if they understand the anatomical structure which lies beneath. Cross-sectional lines...therein lies truth!
Although I am not a graphic designer, I rendered this handout for my class for them to better understand these ideas. I have included a cropping of it, because I feel it has a certain aesthetic quality to it. Handouts can be beautiful, can't they?
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Choose
Imagine the pitfalls we would avoid if we would choose to use our brain for something other than a last resort...
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Blanket
Suddenly, a menacing deep "meow" echoed through the wallboards, like thunder through a valley, causing Chester to cradle himself deeper under his blanket?
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