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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’).


Friday, 30 November 2012

189 - Squirrel


Earlier this month I came across an artist called Colin Bradley who works in pastel and was inspired to give it a go. This is my first attempt at painting with pastels using a photo taken at Penrith Centre Park. I started with pastel pencils and then switched to some soft pastels because I was struggling to get the colour right.