get the drawing right ain’t necessarily perfect
Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you. (Sherwood Anderson)
If you have followed this blog for any time at all I hope you have noticed two things.
- How much I admire the work of Charles Burchfield.
- How important I believe drawing is to the painter.
This unfinished painting by Burchfield gives a glimpse into his process and how the drawing so influenced his work. It also shows us how willing he was to go back and rework in order to improve upon the representation of his vision.
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child. (Charles Burchfield)
Make a drawing, begin it again, trace it; begin it again and trace it again. (Edgar Degas)
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Rose Creek 04
12×9, mixed media (watercolor and graphite)
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01 Rose Creek plein air 11/02/2014
12×9, grahite
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Rose Creek 02 comp
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out my backdoor 06 …drawing 01
9×12, graphite
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take me to the river 08 …along the white trail 12×9, graphite on tracing paper (State Botanical Garden of Georgia)
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Take me to the river 07
12×9, graphite
along the white trail
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take me to the river …06;drawing 01
12×9, graphite
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take me to the river …06; drawing 02
12×9, graphite
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take me to the river_05_drawing 03
12×9, graphite on tracing paper
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take me to the river_05_drawing 02
12×9, graphite
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take me to the river_05_drawing 01
12×9, graphite
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looking out my backdoor 03_drawings
graphite
understanding trees in 3 dimensions…in winter you can see the real anatomy of trees…when you have leaves and such you must imagine through them to the structure…
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drawings 1 & 2 looking out my backdoor 04
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drawing1_lombd_02
graphite
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drawing2_lombd_02
graphite on tracing paper
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21 figure 8×11, acrylic; 15 min.
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27 figure
8×11, acrylic, 30 minute drawing
the bones upon which you hang the painting
admiration
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