Week 3: Video Drawing Lesson #2

I videoed this one myself... I didn't want there to be too big of a laps in time from the last one to a second. So, here you go -->

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Learning to OBSERVE the world like an artist. Become curious about how everything is connected: the shapes that make things up; their relationships to each other; the environment surrounding and to you!

“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.”
~William S. Burroughs

In the next lesson (this weekend) we will draw together. So, in the meantime practice observing the world in a new way. Look at the things you always look at in a new way by discovering what shapes would make them up how the shapes are related to each other (bigger, smaller, wider, longer...) and what is the shape of the space/relationship between you and the object?

We each have a very unique way of observing the world around us. I want for you to become more aware of how you observe things, how you feel about them and the relationships that connect them all so that you may begin to express that through your art!

I don't care what kind of art an artist does, they are keen observers of life... the details. Do you know an artist? If so, spend some time with them and recognize how they see things.

You can start right now by noticing the little things. The sway in a bench from lots of sitting; a ladybug on the window sill; how the wind changes the color of the grass; or how when a bird flaps it's wings in flight you can't really see his wings - just impressions- until it stops flapping them.

Have fun discovering your world over again!

Everyone is naturally an artist, we just all have to relearn some things we lost along the way.

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