The Artist’s Diary
Artistic Inspiration for a Life in Bloom
Drawing Tips & Tricks
That is the part that stops people, and it is the part meditative drawing quietly removes: you need one mark and the willingness to make it again.A dash.
Louise Bourgeois kept paper beside the bed and filled 220 sheets on the nights she was awake. Not studies for anything - just the hand, repeating.
Drawing Ideas
A nature journal is not a sketchbook you have to be good at.
Every guide tells you to note the date, the time, the place and the weather. None of them tells you what to actually put on the page.
Drawing Tips & Tricks
The bird will still read as a bird, and faster than the one you have been labouring over since Tuesday.What goes down instead is a shape.
A man painted birds for fifty years and never once counted a feather in a wing. He counted the wings. Twenty-two birds, three shapes each.
Drawing Ideas
Master ‘How to Draw Patterns’ in One Evening: 18 Fills Artists Rarely Explain (+ Free Pattern Chart)
Copying it, tile by tile, for days, with his wife helping.
Escher crossed Spain twice to copy tiles off a palace wall by hand. Zen doodle patterns get you the vocabulary from the kitchen table.
Drawing Ideas
A card is the only drawing you are allowed to make out of one thing.
Nobody keeps a card because the drawing was good. They keep it because you sat down. 50 occasions, and the confident half is already inked.
How To Guides
You are not going to draw it.You are going to draw around a saucer.
The oldest wreath on record was drawn around a name, not a door. Egypt called the loop shen — to encircle, to protect.
Drawing Tips & Tricks
A psychiatrist in Switzerland spent the end of the First World War in charge of a camp of interned British soldiers, and every morning before the day started he drew a circle.Not as a hobby.
Jung drew one small circle every morning of the war. How to draw a mandala, and what the ring is actually for.
Drawing Ideas
A man once won the biggest job in Europe by drawing a circle.
A drawn line is a seismograph of the hand that made it. One line drawing works because a line that keeps travelling has nothing to confess.
Drawing Ideas
In the winter of 1949, a photographer named Gjon Mili walked into Picasso's studio with a camera and a strange request: draw for me in the dark.
The hard part of drawing an animal is not the animal. It is being allowed to stop and think. 20 exotic animals to draw, each in one flowing line.
Inspirations
Whether it’s a detailed pencil sketch, a playful doodle, or an imaginative digital creation, artwork captures stories, emotions, and moments in time.
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