[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”1″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”85″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ content_parallax=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”160314″][vc_column][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”596236″]What exactly is going on when I decide to make a drawing I wonder, what is so complex about this apparently simple decision to make my mark? Sketching has waxed and waned as a significant part of my artistic life and career and I have often wondered why. This article is by way of a personal tracing of my tracks. I look at how drawing has been present at different times in my life and absent at others and what it has meant to me. I have history with mark making: I suspect there’s an arc in my story moving from drawing for other peoples approval towards sketching for my own satisfaction – or dare I say – delight.

I almost always find drawing hard work, I have to do quite a lot of it before I find I have lost myself in it and forgotten that it is hard work and really entered the process and become truly present.

The article is published on the a-n website under my blog series Restart:[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”1″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”85″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ content_parallax=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”343317″][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ align_horizontal=”align_center” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1/1″][vc_button button_color=”color-wayh” border_width=”0″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.a-n.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Frestart%2Fpost%2F52599040%2F|title:Read%20the%20blog%20on%20the%20a-n%20website%20now|target:_blank”]What’s so tricky about drawing? Read the blog [/vc_button][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”646813″]

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