oil on canvas David Grudniski

Drawing Journal

The Boys

I don't think these guys know they're in a band, it's more like therapy for all the shit that happens during the day. It's the music that makes life worth living and when they're all together their lives are art.

Just "The Boys" in the band.

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Afternoon

She was so calm, reaching for the twilight. I could hear it in the way she spoke as she began to drift off into a state of unknown ecstasy. The surroundings changed as her dreams became her reality. Her vulnerable beauty induced by calm and trust this afternoon.

Queen Birta

She is the Queen of Buckwheat Zydeco and she moves around that stage as if she has something big to tell the world. She's a world shaker and her music will grab a hold of ya. Her squeeze-box will take ya straight to New Orleans.

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Attack of the umbrella people

Here we were, trapped grasping at straws while the rain just hammered us. That wasn’t the worst of it, we were being attacked by people with umbrellas. They used them like weapons with skill and accuracy. I didn’t blame them really because we were the foreigners and everyone was

shorter than us. Little people with big umbrellas taking over the world. Yahh! that's right attacking us big people and taking over the world. They all spoke Italian at least the ones that were attacking us. I guess that's because we were in Italy. I bought one of their umbrellas.

Drawing is the foundation

Everyone has the capacity to produce amazing images and it all starts with drawing.

Sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, textiles, painting, will all be better if you can draw well.

Drawing is the precipitous for good preparation and is the map that will formulate your creativity; it will guide you in a direction that is congruent with your abilities and will open you up to new ways of seeing.

Piet Mondrian used drawing to script out how he would

approach a painting, where as Leonardo DaVinci created drawings for his own reference to have a clear understanding of the functionality of objects.

I use drawing to document my process. When I was learning to draw and paint I would look at unfinished paintings like: DaVinci’s “Adoration of the Magi”; it helped me understand the process of moving from drawing to painting.

Drawing creates spontaneous transitions from concept to canvas.

Art History has traditionally sited drawing as a form of documentation and communication. Today drawing is a primary means for creative expression, which is a relatively new considering that Neolithic man, used drawing to communicate.

Drawing is Expression

If you want to learn to express your self through drawing then;

Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain is a great first step.

Drawing is only a tool for collecting visual information; not unlike a camera. The difference is the long-term benefits you will gain from the process.

Here are a few of the benefits: Understanding design elements, form and space relationships, balance, technique, developed skill-level , a new way of seeing your surroundings, understanding how things work, a connection to your subject, the materials and tools of the trade; the list is endless. The thing is; you will always be learning something new as long as you live and draw.

"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character." ~ Camille Pissarro.

Picasso understood the benefits of drawing from his earliest recollections.

He knew it was the foundation for everything he had created or would create in his life.

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model.” Ingres

Michele Angelo cartooned the whole ceiling of the Sistine Chapel before his apprentices blocked-in the images. He would also draw lines on the marble before he would begin a sculpture.

I think it’s safe to say that drawing has been used in one form or another to create most of the products we see and use today.

Drawing is taken for granted and is thought of as that thing artists do.

Well! What I would suggest is that most people have used drawing in their life in some form. With a little effort you could use drawing as an exceptional means of expressing your self.

So after all is said; drawing is not just something that artist’s do but it’s what you can do to be an artist.

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