Each 'round has a theme and this theme will be Landscape and Drawing.
I started at School of Visual Arts as falling into a nest of some of the best figure drawing of the time. I drew 3 times a week for about 5 years and continued the practice more sporadically for the rest of my life .
I met Paul Georges at that drawing workshop at SVA in 1972. We went off to Skowhegan I as his assistant and there I tried to tackle the Landscape which had been mastered there by Alex Katz. Later that summer I painted with Fairfield Porter. That solidified my direction.
I didnt know this then but my process has pointed the idea out. One sits in the landscape and tries to find a shape or shapes that will represent what one sees there.
When one draws this shape and is convinced one draws an especially hard line which brings the subject into reality to the surface. This become what one was looking for. Later Harold Bloom recounted this as the Romance Quest, I had read ideas of it in Joseph Campbell. He called it the Heroes Journey.
I started at School of Visual Arts as falling into a nest of some of the best figure drawing of the time. I drew 3 times a week for about 5 years and continued the practice more sporadically for the rest of my life .
I met Paul Georges at that drawing workshop at SVA in 1972. We went off to Skowhegan I as his assistant and there I tried to tackle the Landscape which had been mastered there by Alex Katz. Later that summer I painted with Fairfield Porter. That solidified my direction.
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| Paul Georges |
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| Fairfield Porter |
I didnt know this then but my process has pointed the idea out. One sits in the landscape and tries to find a shape or shapes that will represent what one sees there.
When one draws this shape and is convinced one draws an especially hard line which brings the subject into reality to the surface. This become what one was looking for. Later Harold Bloom recounted this as the Romance Quest, I had read ideas of it in Joseph Campbell. He called it the Heroes Journey.
