Drawings & Sketches - Northamptonshire - UK

This information is similar to that for Studio Archive # 1 Drawing & Sketches UK.

These are drawings done were in Northamptonshire - where I live and have my studio.

Sometimes I draw to gather information for a specific studio idea. Other times drawing actually creates the ideas, and sometimes I draw for the sake of drawing.

There isn't always enough time to draw what catches my eye so a few fast lines have to suffice and it appears that the sketch is barely there, but even that brings the scene alive to me later on.

Sometimes there is too much time for what should have taken half the time.

Just attempting to draw the trajectory lines a berserk fly makes is as fascinating as spending hours drawing a landscape. Nothing is outside notice.

At times I draw in air leaving no visible marks behind, looking for all the world as if I am conducting an orchestra, when I do it's mostly when no one is around or I might get carted away! Drawing in the air or on a solid surface is drawing on my internal 'memory board'.

Ideas are generated by drawing - sharing knowledge of a technique is like sharing an idea, it gives it space to grow - I have leaned from many different people and sources and hope to go on doing so. The Imagined Landscape drawings were a way of drawing I learned from the book 'Creative Drawing' Point and Line by Ernst Rottger and Dieter Klante, Pub. Batsford.

Drawing is thinking and not thinking.