Drawing is the most important means of studying and reflecting reality, and a fundamental principle of creating any realistic image. Ability to draw is necessary for artists of all specializations, graphic artists and painters, architects and designers, sculptors and masters of applied art. An artist often records his/her first, sometimes unformed and to some extend vague ideas in brief outlines, rough delineations, later selecting the most appropriate material, fixes in drawings – sketches his/her observations, and finally finds his/her future composition in drawings – esquisses.

Michelangelo, who was a painter, a sculptor, and an architect at the same time, used to say, “Drawing is a source and root of every science”.

For an artist, drawing is the best possible school teaching to see, look intently at the surrounding world, compare, analyze, and feel what is seen.

Drawing is a starting point for comprehension of the fine art craft, development of the ability to see and reproduce what is seen in works of art.

Drawings can differ significantly by their nature. These can be some dashes instantaneously outlined, helping artist to record his/her instant impression or thought on paper. These sketches may seem ordinary scribbles to a stranger. These could be thorough and fully completed images with detailed light and shadows; though the notion of completeness is relative and peculiar. Sometimes, fast drawing can be very expressive and perfect for its artistic values, ergo fully completed.

Such peculiarities of perception of drawing are connected with certain psychological features of our sight, since the major part of visual information derive from perceiving contour lines, which play first fiddle in the object recognition process. The line is indeed the most vivid element of a drawing.

Tuning

I am not preoccupied with competing with other artists or paint a picture better than somebody else does. It sounds like a kindergarten; just Being in an interesting creating process is much more interesting for me. However, this is no ars gratia artis, but a message or a talk, wherein my attitude echoes, and of course, I am trying to be understood.

Paintings make that space of love and inner power; being there and expressing self is simple and cheerful. Bright thought-images laid on a blank canvas are like magical talismans-amulets, which can heal and support the one who buys and gets my painting as a present.

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