Created by Marion Deuchars
Laurence King Publisher, 2011
$19.95, all ages, 224 pages
Have you ever taken a pencil for a walk?
Without lifting your pencil off of paper, draw a picture that someone would recognize.
Not easy, is it?
That's how Swiss artist Paul Klee used to warm up his drawing students.
In this eclectic book of drawing lessons and doodle prompts, Deuchar challenges readers to look beyond what they expect to see.
Have you ever taken a pencil for a walk?
Without lifting your pencil off of paper, draw a picture that someone would recognize.
Not easy, is it?
That's how Swiss artist Paul Klee used to warm up his drawing students.
In this eclectic book of drawing lessons and doodle prompts, Deuchar challenges readers to look beyond what they expect to see.
On one page, readers blow ink through a straw and try to relate the shape to something they know.
On another they draw an upside-down sketch of Michaelangelo's David without turning the sketch around.
On another they draw an upside-down sketch of Michaelangelo's David without turning the sketch around.
As if whispering over readers' shoulders, Deuchars instructs artists to focus on the lines and shapes of the famous sculpture, and not think about what the picture represents.
