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Sketching (1908)
'And let those who despise sketching remember that there are certain truths, certain beauties, certain swift relations between the thrilled observer and the fleeting beam of light, of which sketching, and sketching alone, is the human and intellectual expression. While they must admit this, I haste to concede that the highest and strongest flights are not to the mere sketcher. And further, a truth which demolishes the sketcher, even on his own ground, it is only the artist whose sketching is informed by the necessity of making it a means to something further, who touches the highwater mark of excellence in the sketches themselves.'
SICKERT
Those of us that draw and love looking at drawings by the masters, receive a lesson in instruction and further, there is no greater way to learn about drawing than to copy directly from them. It is always a surprise to find out how small in scale these great drawings often are.
I owe a debt of gratitude to my art teacher, Mrs Gunns, for taking an interest in my future when I was twelve years old. Later, I used to think how much further on my drawing would be had I been taught drawing properly as a child. Children, though, are naturally creative and it is once we have matured and found our true direction we may want to ask questions and hopefully find someone to answer our enquiries. The most profound and pertinent answers come from people who practice the art and indeed who love it.
Ingre placed drawing the highest. To him it was a calling, like entering the priesthood, something to be taken completely seriously. One thing a drawing must do in my opinion is to portray life. I recall two great examples, one by Leonardo and the other by Rembrandt. Both have caught miraculously a moment in time. Both show and possess movement in an extraordinary way. Leonardo’s sheet of studies show a boy desperately trying to hold a cat in his arms, bursts from the page. Rembrandt’s old man and a child, show through a brilliant series of swiftly observed studies, the child taking the man by surprise by grabbing his hat!
Drawing is a subject that can engage you all your life but it is also an activity that needs to be done constantly if you are to get anywhere with it. Unlike riding a bike, it requires constant attention. If you leave it off, you go back years.
Ernest Jackson, who taught Peter Greenham and Bernard Dunston among others, left us a memorable quote that “drawing should be legible”. Drawing then is a language that goes back 30,000 years or more and is quite possibly the first language of man.
Martin Yeoman
'And let those who despise sketching remember that there are certain truths, certain beauties, certain swift relations between the thrilled observer and the fleeting beam of light, of which sketching, and sketching alone, is the human and intellectual expression. While they must admit this, I haste to concede that the highest and strongest flights are not to the mere sketcher. And further, a truth which demolishes the sketcher, even on his own ground, it is only the artist whose sketching is informed by the necessity of making it a means to something further, who touches the highwater mark of excellence in the sketches themselves.'
SICKERT
Those of us that draw and love looking at drawings by the masters, receive a lesson in instruction and further, there is no greater way to learn about drawing than to copy directly from them. It is always a surprise to find out how small in scale these great drawings often are.
I owe a debt of gratitude to my art teacher, Mrs Gunns, for taking an interest in my future when I was twelve years old. Later, I used to think how much further on my drawing would be had I been taught drawing properly as a child. Children, though, are naturally creative and it is once we have matured and found our true direction we may want to ask questions and hopefully find someone to answer our enquiries. The most profound and pertinent answers come from people who practice the art and indeed who love it.
Ingre placed drawing the highest. To him it was a calling, like entering the priesthood, something to be taken completely seriously. One thing a drawing must do in my opinion is to portray life. I recall two great examples, one by Leonardo and the other by Rembrandt. Both have caught miraculously a moment in time. Both show and possess movement in an extraordinary way. Leonardo’s sheet of studies show a boy desperately trying to hold a cat in his arms, bursts from the page. Rembrandt’s old man and a child, show through a brilliant series of swiftly observed studies, the child taking the man by surprise by grabbing his hat!
Drawing is a subject that can engage you all your life but it is also an activity that needs to be done constantly if you are to get anywhere with it. Unlike riding a bike, it requires constant attention. If you leave it off, you go back years.
Ernest Jackson, who taught Peter Greenham and Bernard Dunston among others, left us a memorable quote that “drawing should be legible”. Drawing then is a language that goes back 30,000 years or more and is quite possibly the first language of man.
Martin Yeoman
