to forms around us

“Drawing can accommodate all attitudes, whether we are reacting directly to forms around us, refining forms from memory, inventing new forms, or even planning complicated relationships.”
- Bernard Chaet, The Art of Drawing

“We should talk less and draw more.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I want an entire year that I can put all my focus and effort towards my artwork. But with time often being dear, I try every day to put some effort towards drawing. The immediacy of drawing, that ability to pick up a pencil and just go at something, free of all the preparation that other mediums can demand, is one of the things I enjoy most about it. I have an easier time getting right to the heart of it with a pencil rather than a paint brush. Drawing is the basis of all the arts and, for me anyway, a continuing and, hopefully, endless effort to describe and make sense of what I see.

The drawing I’ve posted here was very enjoyable to work on. I was staring at this orange inside a plastic bag and suddenly it was not some mundane object. It was full of interest - - - there were both solid and transparent areas, physical weight contrasting with the light, crisp emptiness of the bag. I like these contrasts and they were fun to draw.