Girl with drink at the beach
Currently I have been taking drawings from the past summer with figures at the beach. In drawing I can work out the composition and add details from life. I have always enjoyed drawing. Drawing is the foundation of painting. Making many lines, marks and smudges to make one big picture. Whether you use a paintbrush or a pencil drawing is crucial. Like in music each note adds to the piece and it builds slowly to create form and volume. I like going over and over again changing and correcting trying to make the space real and pleasing.
Drawing takes time. It sits you down and you are forced to look at things and study them. In a way it is a form of meditation. Some times it takes a lot of energy to look at things. Really study them. We don't want to slow down enough to do the looking. Drawing helps me slow down and really be amazed at what is around me. Reality is so strange and wonderful yet easy to take for granted. As I look at people moving in space and try to discribe that space and those bodies in it I become more a part of what is around me. More connected to what I am looking at. Most of the time the scene is very complicated and I am forced to simplify. Below is a small study of a girl at a beach and then an empty beach in Maine.
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