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“It is in the order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call ‘The Ten Thousand Things’ around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is”.

(Frederick Franck, ‘The Zen of Seeing’).


Thursday 19 July 2012

147- The Umbrella


A copy of George Cruikshank's The Umbrella drawn digitally using Sketchbook Pro. I found a copy of the original online and thought it was just a really funny picture, in hindsight, I wish I had drawn it first in pencil and then inked and coloured it. Maybe next time.
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Wednesday 18 July 2012

146 - Cragside Hall


A pencil drawing of Cragside Hall in Northumberland. I feel that I rediscovered my love for the pencil on this one, it's not great up close but from a distance I think it's quite pleasing to the eye. The original was drawn quite small and on relatively cheap paper so it wasn't ideal, but I'm still pleased with the overall result. 
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