“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, 7 April 2011
61- Digital Portrait
Found this old photo of a Cheyenne Indian and thought it it would make a great painting exercise. So far I've spent about 2.5 hours on it and now it's all about adding detail and more contrast.