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What with my American adventures and
the Loch Lomond Quilt Show and mildly sick children, I haven’t had much time
for my own work recently. However, I
have started trying to draw every day.
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Traditional drawing has never been
one of my strengths. I think the most
charitable thing any tutor has ever said about my drawing was ‘I drew really
well with a camera’. This is all well
and good, but I do want to improve my drawing skills and although I’ll never be
Picasso, by practice I can improve.
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At the Met Museum in New York, I was
really excited to find a booklet solely on the ancient Greek figures that
interest me, 'Art of the Aegean Bronze Age', so it had to come home with me (I did pay for it!). I’ve been drawing the figures in it for
approx 25 mins each time. I’m not sure
of any improvement yet, but I am pleased that I can really see the difference
between the 10 minute sketch and the 25 minutes ones - can you tell?
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I hope if I can keep this up, it
will start bearing fruit in my artworks, but we will have to wait and see. It is a lovely calm way to start the day even
if it has no obvious benefit...
2 comments:
These are really interesting and I so like the first one.
Thanks Maggi
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