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2 pages from one of my student sketchbooks, Hal Isen drawing instructor
page detail
page detail from another page in that same sketchbook
The note says: When there is no contrast the “form” is flat and no design - there is nothing.
When there is “total” contrast the “form” is flat and there is a design there is a composition
(”total” contrast being only black and white and no grays)
Done after seeing a Henry Moore exhibition of small sculptures and drawings & some of the imagery is based on the news images from Viet Nam.
… upon which the Ideas of Painting & Sculpture Hang… They provide a view of the Artist’s Mind…
A direct relationship between Mind and Hand… In many cases the Drawing provides an unedited vision of the Hand’s Work & the Concepts of the Mind.






















