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Il faut aiguiser nos crayons

Annie Copland
November 23, 2017
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art, creativity, design, drawing, gestural drawing, improvement, learning, mastery, order, pencils, practice, productivity, talent, thought process, tools, writing

After Voltaire, who said: “Il faut cultiver notre jardin” (We must cultivate our garden) – To this I add: “Il faut aiguiser nos crayons” (“We must sharpen our pencils*”) [*I hope!] First, literally. – ‘Start the day with a sharp pencil’ as I like toRead more…

Gesture Drawing and Fast Work / Developing a Style

Annie Copland
February 27, 2015
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amsterdam, art, art college, artistic, creativity, developing a style, ECA, edinburgh college of art, expression, fieldwork, gestural drawing, illustration, plants, sketching

Gesture Drawing and Fast Work / Developing a Style In this blog post I want to show you about developing a style, and how I advanced my drawing/sketching technique – primarily by doing more gesture drawing. Going to Art College In 2002-2003 I went toRead more…