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Pencil: An Artist's View Of Research Proposal

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An artist must be taught, by another artist -- or through trial and error, the artist can teach him or herself. But sometimes the pencil teaches me. I will be doodling, and suddenly find myself amazed at the strange, symmetrical beauty of the shapes of the squares, triangles, and hexagons furling out from the nib. The presence of the pencil has released something from my unconscious mind. I will be staring at a line, attempting to draw my other hand or even just write my name and the strange turn and twist of the lines will urge me on to newer, more fruitful creative heights. A tropical flower, a dog jumping rope, or an abstract image will suddenly come, generated by the presence of the pencil and the inspiration of the lines it makes, not my thinking mind at all.

Richard Selzer has said that a surgeon...

After creating an image, bringing it to life, the artist must go back and edit out what does not work: ruthlessly, I must erase, re-do, reshape, and re-shade.
Sometimes the pencil is simply a way for me to exercise as an artist, a work-out tool, as I practice figure drawing and other assignments, or I copy sketches from famous black-and-white artists from the past like Escher and Durer.

At other times, the pencil is merely a precursor to what I will attempt with a brush, on an artist's canvas, or a graphic design I create on my computer. But no matter what other media I explore, from clay to computer design, I can never abandon the pencil. For me, the pencil is the original inspiration of my art, connected to my body like an extension of my hand.

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