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"Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing:
it reveals, better than does painting,
his true personality."
Edgar Degas-
I am doing preliminary work for the mural and should be ready to make the drawing on canvas this weekend.
A big step.
I always feel hesitant to make the first mark. Of course pencil is easily erased, but for me the first marks on a canvas are important and set the tone for the entire piece.
I do not work out the entire painting before hand and then transfer the image to canvas. That would be nice, but its not my way. My process involves "intuitive drawing."
Most of my preliminary work is mental. I work through images for weeks or months in my mind--thinking and comparing, imagining and discarding ideas and marks, reworking and formulating.
A torrent of visual "what-ifs".
I tend to write more than draw as I get close to starting a piece- my line drawings are kin to writing. Letters and words give us the image instantly, my lines demand more.
When I do start the drawing on canvas it is a flurry of action:
a watch-out, get-out-of-my-way type event.
One motion.
Then I see the image for the first time, all the pieces and parts that I have been imaging are now made real.
If Degas is correct in his assertion that the drawing reveals the artist's most direct expression, his true personality, then what does my drawing say about me?
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