This is from the last pages of Frederick Franck’s The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation (1973). It’s valid for me … maybe it speaks to you too? I want to say something about what I discovered to be valid for me, even though I am not sure it is valid for everyone. It concerns photography and […]Read Post ›
The Meaning of Life is to See. ~ Huineng How does one progress in drawing? By making the eye-heart-hand reflex ever more sensitive, so that the hand may become ever more the willing tool of the eye. ~ Frederick Franck Jacaranda seed-pod study VI Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic […]Read Post ›
Why not sketch some books instead … Books “cited”: 1. Marguerite Duras: Elskeren (L’Amant) 2. Karen Blixen: Babettes gjestebud (Babette’s Feast ) 3. Marilynne Robinson: Home 4. Ian McEwan: Solar 5. Michael Glover: Great Works: Encounters with Art 6. Julia Cameron: The Complete Artist’s Way: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice Michael Glover’s book is the […]Read Post ›
To my fellow sketchers, here is a brilliant blog-post on getting ready to sketch (or draw, if that is what you prefer to call your actions), written by Roz Stendahl at Roz Wound Up Why Warm Up When Drawing? a short excerpt: I do warm up sketches in my journals because I want to connect my […]Read Post ›
a jar and a bunch of twigs in a more or less continuous line As you might notice my pen suddenly ran out of ink – and thus the pen decided THE END on its own. I have not used this fountain pen (a Platinum PTL-5000 14k Gold Nib + Carbon black permanent pigment ink) […]Read Post ›
modes & methods – notes om pages
I am testing my watercolours; types and shades I have already told you (several times – yes, I know!), that I haven’t been drawing for almost 30 years – AND regarding watercolours: I am a novice. So there is much – VERY MUCH – for me to investigate. Today I have been especially interested in […]Read Post ›
Being an atheist, I suspect this is as close to God I’ll ever come:
An essential part of sketching, especially if you — like to/have to/ want to — draw fast, is to know your tools well. You have to experiment to find out how the different kinds of pens, pencils and watercolor equipment in your kit works, what kind of line quality different pens will give you, color […]Read Post ›
Rediscovering sketching has been, and still is, such a joy! I have always kept written journals, notebooks filled with a mix of my own thoughts, reflections & ideas, and quotes & phrases from books and things of interest. I have always had an urge for writing, but I very rarely re-read my own writing. I […]Read Post ›
