1. drawing for those who don't draw; the role of method, the automatic; the mechanical;
2. my favourite drawing
3. drawing on film, McLaren and Len Lye.
4. drawing as performance.
5. Life drawing, techniques and intent.
6. Drawing in non-Western cultures.
7. A History of Drawing.

Drawing is "going for a walk with a line" Paul Klee.

"It is characteristic of all my drawings that the paper `opens up' and that its whiteness (or blackness) is regarded as an area or space of light and atmosphere, in which energies, represented by the dot, crystallise in forms partially suggested by outline." Claes Oldenburg.

"Drawings are the first ideas of a painter, the first flash of his imagination, his style, his spirit, his way of thinking. A painter while painting corrects himself and restrains the impulse of his genius, while making a drawing, he dashes off the first flash of his thoughts, he shows himself he is. A painter's way of drawing is as distinctive as handwriting and much more revealing than a writer's style." Dezallier d'Argenville.

Rene Robert Bouché a fashion illustrator works in stages from A Complete Guide to Drawing, Simon & Schuster New York 1948.

"Does the line possess order to the others or is the mark maker lost - is it the cut line in stone - the hard line of mill iron - to make a mark - to set a stroke - which demands its space; to defile the white sheet or make the mark of honor - are these the strokes that elicit sympathy or are these the strokes that isolate the difference - who are you making them for - you and who else ?" David Smith.

"The line of contour should be closed, continuous and should end so as to promise more forms beyond itself and also to make evident the parts which it hides or implies." Xenocrates of Sicyon. "Drawing is the basis and theory of painting and sculpture." Ghiberti "Drawing should give the eye in the shape of a demonstration the intention and invention first first conceived by its image. Line has not matter in it or any other substance, but since it is thus conditioned, it takes up no room. Contour is a surface which is neither of the body nor a part of the atmosphere, but a medium interposed between the atmosphere and the body." Leonardo.

James Thurber.

" For me, drawing's uniqueness has something to do with the fundamental activity of actually trying to lay a ghost or exorcise oneself. I like to have a dialogue with the drawing, to let the drawing tell me something." Ralph Steadman

"Drawing is the probity of art." J.A.D.Ingres.

"Certain Japanese formalities seem close to me, such as the beginning of a stroke outside the paper continuing through the drawing space, to project beyond, so that in the included part it possesses both the power of the origin and the projection. This produces the impression of strength and if drops fall they become attributes or relationships."David Smith, American sculptor.

"By now I had developed a drawing style that was not easily printable in newspapers, so I concentrated on magazines. This necessitated abandoning topical subject matter and finding material with a shelf-life of at least six weeks." John Glashan,UK

MEDIA
Pen, pencil, chalk, silverpoint, wash, watercolour, pastel, stump,

advert from The Studio June 15 th 1920

SOME EXAMPLES OF BRITISH PEN DRAWING

from G.Montague Ellwood, The Art of Pen Drawing Batsford London 1927.

FUNCTION
The function of the brush is not in the brush, but in something of value created - the function of ink is not in the ink but in its receptivity and response. Likewise the functions in mountains and water lie not in themselves but in their respective silence and mobility." Lin Yutang, The Chinese Theory of Art. Descriptive, interpretative. Anatomical, court room artist, police artist, engineer, drawing as intention.

LANGUAGE
section headings from Rawson, Seeing through Drawing. The Surface; Analogy and FormMarks; Shape and Structure; Enclosures and the Third Dimension; Chiarsocuro; Deep Space; Image; Field.

from Modern Mechanix Oct. 1937, Correspondence Course in drawing,

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