Beginning to draw
I have started drawing this summer, and am enjoying going out and finding bits of nature to draw. The different grasses above are from the meadow at my brother's house in Vermont. (Double-click on the image to see more detail.) I was inspired by an exercise called "Find a Child": "If you have a child of two or three, or can borrow one, let her give you beginning lessons in looking. It takes just a few minutes. Ask the child to come from the front of the house to the back and closely observe her small journey. It will be full of pauses, circling, touching and picking up in order to smell, shake, taste, rub, and scrape. The child's eyes won't leave the ground, and every piece of paper, every scrap, every object along the path will be a new discovery." From Learning by Heart by Jan Steward and Corita Kent (NY: Allworth Press, 2008; first published 1992), p. 14. I recommend this book highly! For more on Corita Kent (Sister Corita), look here . Ev...