{"id":141,"date":"2007-07-13T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2007-07-13T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T15:53:00","slug":"drawing-i-work-copying-the-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/13\/drawing-i-work-copying-the-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing I work — copying the masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Making a drawing is nothing like, say, creating a worksheet detailing the journal entries of the merger of two companies.<\/p>\n

In the latter case, the process is logical, orderly, comfortable, and and I know when it’s done I know whether it’s right. In the former case, all bets are off.<\/p>\n

The assignment: to make a copy of a drawing by a master. My choice: a drawing of a bear foot by da Vinci (original shown here<\/a> at The Royal Collection website). The blue sheet of charcoal paper stares me in the face, challenging me with its blankness. I wonder how in the world I can possibly end up with a 16″ x 20″ copy of his 5.4″ x 6.3″ drawing. But it’s homework, and it’s due, and that’s beauty of it. Somehow it gets done. And it even works — even if it takes awhile to be sure that it is<\/span> finished, and even if it’s not clear at first that it’s successful. There are no reconciling figures or completed worksheet to signal the end of the drawing.<\/p>\n

Some time after taking a week-long workshop with Ann Hechle<\/a>, I attended her lecture at the 1990 Letterforum about the process of working on the piece about the first hexagram of the I Ching, The Creative. It was also a lecture about the nature of working creatively, which gave me insight into the stages of the creative process — the new idea and all its possibilities, the first stages of work on the ideas and culling out\/giving up extraneous ideas, advice and input from others, the chaos in the middle, knowing when it’s finished, and letting it go. All very valuable wisdom … which I completely forget every time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Making a drawing is nothing like, say, creating a worksheet detailing the journal entries of the merger of two companies. In the latter case, the process is logical, orderly, comfortable, and and I know when it’s done I know whether it’s right. In the former case, all bets are off. The assignment: to make a … <\/p>\n

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