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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 4 July 2013

204 - W.I.P


I've been sitting on this painting, metaphorically speaking, for the last 2 weeks. I painted it over a couple of days and then went back to work and sort of lost momentum, so I'm posting it as a work in progress in the hope that it will motivate me to finish it off. I think it's just the fear of going back into the painting and not messing it up that has put me off. I just need to dive back in! Alas it isn't my own design, but a copy of a painting by the artist Brian Keeler. He has several tutorials on the Artist's Network and I just loved the colours in this picture and decided to give it a go, following along with his video.