Sketch Book for the Artist

The Visual Detective

DRAWING FROM MASTERWORKS was once a staple component of an artist's education.

It is now viewed with some skepticism and often seen as academic. I draw in museums

in support of written research and as an artist seeking answers to questions about the

practicalities of image making. Drawing work by another artist enables you to discover

and understand the inventive hand in their composition. Forms, characters, perspectives,

and narrative pulse become vivid when you realize them in the middle of your study,

feeling them through the attentive movements of your own hand.