Another book that really discusses the way gesture becomes a finished drawing is from Kimon Nicolaides book, the Natural Way to Draw. This is the book that I began with and still use. Unfortunately Kimon died during the writing of it and a lot of the examples in the book were filled it by students.
There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started… at the beginning. …Kimon Nicolaides
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If you want to see more of Sheldon’s ideas, you too can get the IT book directly from him at this link for $35.00.
Hôtel du figuier (known as D’Anjou)
Théophile Tardif-Desvaux, from Angers pittoresque (Picturesque Angers), author mentioned only by the initials E. L., Angers, 1843.
(Source: archive.org)
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You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing. (Kimon Nicolaides)
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You feel frustrated, depressed and life is unbearable, because you can’t do the one thing you love to do most… (Rachel Ballon)
Rachel Ballon, Ph.D. is a licensed psychotherapist and the founder and director of The Writer’s Center in Los Angeles. The author of two critically acclaimed books, Dr. Ballon has reviewed hundreds of scripts for major Hollywood studios & has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Spoiled Children aka USC School of Cinema and Television
This is the next series of drawings that Shelly does….showing how gesture is the “life that you put into the drawing”. I would agree with that. Historically gesture was sketching, for whatever reason, I guess sketching was a bad word at the Art League or they wanted something more profound, sketching became gesture. So now it is gesture.
What’s cool about this series of sketches is that the first one definitely catches the spirit of her dancing. The second is more fleshed out and the third you could see could become a finished drawing — complete with clothes if one wanted to make her a little more presentable.
