Monday, July 25, 2016

Embrace your drawing skills

You can try to avoid drawing and there are lots of tools that you can buy to make art with out drawing: stencils, stamps and coloring books.

sketch to make better monoprints

But if you have the urge to make your own unique art, to express your voice in the world, then the tug of drawing is there. I know because I am not natural lover of drawing. I judge myself too harshly and I often resist the process.

Now I know that:

  • drawing is an essential tool.
  • the more I draw the more I like what I draw
  • drawing can be a scribble (google Cy Twombly drawings)
  • kids drawing are moving because they are raw and real

block printing gives your drawings life

Try this:

  1. Get 10 sheets of copy paper
  2. Stand up, wiggle, breathe and stretch
  3. Arm out stretched and soft pencil in hand scribble with abandon
  4. Just keep making marks
  5. Get a new sheet when you feel like it


How did it go?

  • Did it feel fun? Foolish?
  • Were you judging or allowing?
  • Did you trust yourself?
  • Do you feel looser, freer?

 

 

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