Tuesday 17 April 2012

Why do you draw? Do you draw because you have to? Do you draw because your dealer asked you for a drawing for the group drawing show? Do you show your drawings? Are they private? What do you expect from a drawing? Are your drawings an end in themselves? Or do you draw as a preparatory stage for your paintings or sculpture?
Drawing is immediate. A single line can completely transform an entire sheet of paper. A single mark can give the viewer enough information on how to look and direct them at what they are looking at. Drawing can be done anywhere at any time.
I remember reading about Jackson Pollock being so broke that he would go and take the deposit slips from the bank and draw on them when he could not afford paper. You can always draw.
You can't hide in a drawing. It is all there.
I often look at master drawings and try to figure out where the first mark was made and how an entire drawing can be built around one single line.
I am the person at the large painting shows standing alone looking at the small little drawings that go unnoticed.
I draw because I have to. Every single day.  They are an end in themselves and take me to places nothing else can.

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