Drawing is my exploration, description,education and meditation. It helps me to understand the shape of anything, something and lots of things. I have almost a pathological need to draw. As my creative ideas grow and form, I have to find some way to begin to describe them and that is by drawing.
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My drawings vary by medium, by time and effort and by the reason for my drawing. A line can be a start, it can be the middle description and it can be the final line of any idea. Many years ago I was privileged to view some of Walt Disney’s ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’ original pencil drawings and I was reborn. Drawing a line has huge power. As Spiderman once said, “With great power comes great responsibility.” It can say so much or so little.The potential of a line is enormous.
I love to sketch in an evening before bed, chores done, animals asleep and I focus on mark making in some way to get ideas on paper. If my drawing really excites me or asks me for more attention, it can keep me awake at night. Is ‘drawing-itis’ a disease ? I hope so because I definitely have it.