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• Can drawing enhance your power of
observation?
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“The real magic of discovery lies not so much in finding new landscape as in
having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust
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•Contour Drawing:
1. Select a leaf or twig and observe it for a few minutes.
2. Concentrate on this small part for a minute or so.
3. Now put your pencil on your paper and without looking at your
paper and without lifting your pencil, trace the object in great
detail. Do this for two minutes, in other words “take your time.”
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Student Work:
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•Gesture Drawing: Here you are trying to capture the essence of the object.
1. Using the same object, now sketch it in 5 seconds.
(Hints: hold the pencil about in the middle and hold it loosely)
2. Using the same object, now sketch it in 15 seconds.
3. Now sketch it a third time, for 30 seconds (you may be
impressed by the quality of the drawing and remember, it was
done in 30 seconds!)
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Student Work:
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• Memory Drawing:
1. Now move away from your object and take 3 minutes to draw it
from memory. Try to concentrate on only one or two things
(texture, color, form, space, etc.).
2. Hopefully, now you realize that you can sketch objects in
nature, the key is observing.
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Student Work:
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Resources:
Leslie, C.W. & Roth. C.E. (2000). Keeping a Nature Journal. Storey Books, North Adams, MA.
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• “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