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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’).


Tuesday, 14 June 2011

111-112 Animal Sketches



Some quick sketches out and about this morning. I don't think I've ever sketched animals 'live' before so it was a new experience, plenty of room for improvement. I did try using a fountain pen which was a bit temperamental and didn't really help the quality of the line. (Not that I'm making excuses).