Drawing, something I am ambivalent about. I remember loving it when as a kid my friend Malcolm and I would try to copy all the comic characters we could. The bash street kids and Dennis the Menace. When we found we could do it, it just made us do it more and more. Now I shy away from direct recording of scenes as I just feel that it is outside what i want to do in art. But it can feel very rewarding at the same time. If I draw a river scene, what does it say about me?
My wanting to make original art coupled with a shyness about my skill at drawing is at the base of this. I seem to be able to copy and not able to innovate. But I have, thanks to an exhibition at the V22 Summer Club rediscovered my love of freehand contour drawings. This I intend to pursue further.
But all this aside Jography today was great fun. I revisited the pedestrian bridges at the South Bank, so I can compare today and Monday’s sketches.
