Intuition

Intuition isn’t innately dumb or smart, and it can be educated. The process is a combination of constructive critical analysis and attentive and persistent doing. Throughout the process, you have to talk to the drawing and about the drawing. Each next set of marks and choices becomes smaller, but the cycle continues and the process must always be active, alert, and vital.

More than you think

It’s easy to think you know what drawing is until you ask it to solve problems posed by the imagination, the unseen, the mysterious, the complexity of reality, the connective tissue of the human and natural worlds, the depth of the human experience, the sound of eyes freshly opened. Then it becomes a language capable of grappling with a world constantly bubbling up new universes. Its flexibility, nuances, capacities, potentials, universality and persistence get called upon. It’s an act that, by its nature, draws out aspects of the human experience that do not as easily emerge through the act of forming meaning through words.

Drawing, like writing...

Drawing, like writing, is not something you learn to do but something you keep learning to do.

Draw!

You want to draw? Draw! It doesn't matter what it looks like. It only matters what act draws out of you.