For those that chose to follow the focus to draw in the ‘poorest of huts’ and the ‘dirtiest of corners’, we have a messy corner in the garden (don’t we all have those! And of course from mess, new things can grow); we have sore and dirty knees from working in the garden (a very messy and dirty place to be sometimes!); and a very useful and appreciated kitchen bin (I bet it LOVED being drawn).
We also have flowers in a vase, and flowers in a red umbrella - and as we know, flowers grow from rotted down ‘mess’ and ‘dirt’; we have a beautiful piece of perspective drawing, truly an awesome piece of architecture, and again thinking about where the raw materials for this structure will have come from before they were turned into what we see today, they may have been metaphorically speaking, ‘dirt’, and someone saw the potential in them; finally we have the tools of the artist’s trade, without which we couldn’t create these amazing artworks that tell about the world around us, much gratitude to the tools, who are now in a piece of artwork all their own.
“The way to know life is to love many things.” Vincent Van Gogh
We have been practising using mindful drawing to look at the world around us with the eyes of love. Vincent Van Gogh seems to endorse this method! For this, our final week before we break, look to see if when drawing something you love, you come to know it a bit deeper, and, know yourself a bit deeper in the process.
