sketchbook
I carry sketchbooks everywhere. When I discover a leaf, acorn or flower I look for the tiniest details, as I try to understand its structure and movement. Sitting down with my sketchbook, while focusing on a leaf, can take on a meditative quality, giving me a few moments to block everything else out, as my eyes and pencil follow the form.
“If I were a drawing master, I would set my students to copying these leaves, that they might learn to draw firmly and gracefully. It is a shore to the aerial ocean, on which the windy surf beats. How different from the white oak leaf with its rounded headlands on which no lighthouse need be placed.”
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