Sketch Book for the Artist

INTRODUCTION

Where We Begin

There is a fundamental drive in our human nature to make take in what is said. We are surrounded by drawings in

a mark. Children cannot be restrained from running across our daily lives, not just chosen pictures on our walls but

the pristine white lawn of newly fallen snow, inscribing every everywhere—maps, signs, graffiti, logos, packaging, and

fresh part of it with their eager scrapes and trails. Most adults patterns on our clothes. We are bombarded with linear and

still feel that certain exquisite pleasure on arriving at a beach tonal pictorial information, and we spend our lives reading it.

to find the tide out and the sand perfect, like a great canvas The sense of relief we may feel from the information overload

for them to mark. At home and at work we doodle, scrawling of modern commercial life when visiting a country in which

shapes and cartoons when on the telephone, in lectures, and we can no longer read every written word, is not afforded us

in meetings. Sometimes we draw because we are bored, but by drawing. Drawing is international, irreverent to language

more often because drawing actually helps us to focus and barriers. We can always read each others drawings.

"CAVE OF THE HANDS"

In this drawing, a great crowd is raising silhouettes were drawn with earth pigments

their hands in greeting, waving to us from rubbed onto rock. They have a natural affinity

many thousands of years ago. These ancient to many modern graffiti signatures.

Cueva de las Marios, Rio

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