“There is something that’s very intense about the experience of sitting down and having to look at something in the way that you do in order to make a drawing or a painting of it. By the time you’ve done that, you feel that you’ve really understood what you were looking at…. and somehow it becomes a method of possessing the experience in a unique way.“ - Robert Bechtle -

Drawing is visual reasoning–it involves decisions about mark making, evaluating and reevaluating these marks, and ultimately, taking action to create in a particular way. The images made on paper during drawing form a partial record of thinking. Preliminary sketches – early ideas – are easily done with a pencil on paper. In this way, they are easily revised and redone. This is one of the quickest and most direct means of creating visual representations of ideas. Free hand drawing and redrawing allow multiple interpretations and reinterpretations, and thus a constant production of alternatives. The process may be exploratory, expressive, or inspirational. It can scrutinize, map, record, exemplify, explain, symbolize or objectify. It is a way of discovering and ultimately, a powerful and important way of knowing.

Monkey, Colored Pencil on Paper, 2002

Quick layer, white flower in can using phthalo blue, permanent rose and indian yellow as well as zinc white instead of titanium.

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