Drawing slows me down to really see the object or the person I'm drawing. Frederick Franck said it perfectly in The Zen of Seeing:
Drawing is the discipline by which
I constantly rediscover the world.
I have learned that what I have not drawn,
I have never
really seen.
To draw something is to really see its parts, its proportions, its wrinkles and curves.
I drew this pencil piece in 1979, when I had a previous surge of time and drawing obsession. I haven't done such an ambitious reflection piece since!
It's a rare piece kept from earlier drawing days, thus the smudges (posted here back in 2005 when I started this blog). I still have the carafe, too.
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