Tag: painting
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Still drawing
A few weeks ago I wrote about picking up a pen and some watercolours after more than two decades of not drawing at all. Since then, I’ve kept going. As I’ve continued, I’ve noticed a few things change. I think more deliberately about which lines deserve emphasis and which can fade into suggestion. I’m also…
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Picking up a brush
Aside from user-interface sketches and diagrams of computer systems, I don’t think I’ve drawn anything for 23 years – since the moment art became optional at school, and I gleefully threw in the brushes. At the time, I found art frustrating. I wanted to reproduce the ideas in my head, or the basket of fruit…