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INTRODUCTION18 90 different artists' ways of seeing, and many more reasons
for drawing the world. To these I have added my own
THE THINKING EYE drawings to explain elementary materials and techniques
and offer introductory approaches. Note that the drawing
Techniques and materials are the grammar and vocabulary classes are allocated to subjects, but not confined to them.
of drawing and can be studied and shared. An artist's
personal voice is something that also evolves through In the total wealth of these pages, we still only glimpse a
lessons learned. However, it is this voice that is the subtle corner of the magnitude of this subject and the infinity of
part of their art and something that ultimately, when they what can be achieved. This practical journey will take you
are more experienced, comes from within. Imagination through the door into the vivid heart of drawing. Once
needs nourishment. It rarely flourishes in isolation. As you there, the path is yours. The real drawing book has yet to
draw, seek ideas in the life around you. Look to your own come; it will be your creation as you discover your own
experience and also learn from the work of others. personal vision.
Drawing is a living language that over millennia has
grown and changed, adapting its form and occupation, and
enfolding new media. The chapters of this book present
AN ARTIST'S HANDS ELECTRIC BULL
These are the hands of the artist Phyll Kiggell With a penlight, Picasso has just finished
(see p. 150).Their elegant strength seems to his drawing, which is held frozen in space
summon a lifetime of drawing, and became a
great subject for me. I was particularly attracted by a camera lens. Its sensuous and
to their gentle articulation and understated flowing line seems to drift like smoke, three-
determination, caught between action and repose.
dimensionally. Picasso is poised smiling,
staring straight through his image of a bull,
which of course he cannot see.
Picasso Painting with Light at
the Madoura Pottery
1949
