TheBanyanTree: seeing

[tybrent at gmail.com]

I use the Canson travel watercolor notebooks and a fine tip permanent marker, a tiny  watercolor set or watercolor pencils and a  brush that can be filled with water like a fountain pen. The idea is to sit down, find something that interests you and look at it.  Draw the shape with simple  lines and don't fuss with them. Just a swoop to get the general shape. Then color with light washes. 

We're on a cruise ship on the way to the Panama Canal. Right now we're sitting in the bay at Cabo San Lucas and I'm going toi do a quick sketch. I'll take a picture of it and se d it when I'm done

Theta
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The exercise sounds fascinating - and very appealing to a tactile sort of person.   I'm curious about the drawing diary though, Theta.  Can you share more with us about that?  B eing one of those who can't draw a straight line with a ruler, it sounds fascinating... although I do often try to spend time "seeing" rather than looking, this is foreign to me.
Jana

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From: Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: TheBanyanTree: seeing
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Date: Thursday, November 4, 2010, 10:02 AM


This is a great exercise, Tom.  The role of Camera is like the role of Artist, because when you draw something (even if you don't feel like you draw "well enough," as the too-judgmental world might decree) you have to look at it intensely.  I encourage my friends who don't consider themselves to be artists to still keep a drawing journal.  Even if no one else ever sees it, every time they turn of a page of their drawings, they will remember vividly the look of the item, the time of day, the feel of the air, the smells and exactly how they felt at that moment.

As my first drawing teacher said, looking and seeing are two different things.  We spend all our waking hours looking.  For our souls' sake we need to spend some of that time really /seeing/.

Theta

On 11/3/2010 7:28 PM, Tom Smith wrote:
> Along the edge of a mountain meadow, we were randomly paired
> and assigned Photographer and Camera roles.  The Photographer half
> of each pair guided his or her Camera person with hands on
> shoulders from behind.  The "Cameras" were to keep their eyes
> closed until their shoulders were tapped, and close them when
> tapped again.  After a while, roles were reversed.  As a Camera,
> I found myself enthralled with every instant of viewing that my
> Photographer briefly allowed, and at the second tap closed my eyes
> ravenously hungering for more.  I had never noticed before how
> exciting tree bark could be.  I left this experience feeling wealthy
> beyond measure, knowing I could look at anythine I wished for as
> as long as I liked.
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> image at:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/9482738@N07/5143830489/
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