Laura K Smith Paintings

New blog post: "Trusting Your Eye: Lessons from Drawing Class"

"The other day, I was making a quick sketch of the maple tree outside of my window. Recently I’ve been sketching more. With pencil crayons in hand, I was getting the impression of this large tree down on paper. “Draw what you see, not what you know”, was the foundational lesson I learned in drawing class. This means to register the shapes, colours, and tonal values of the object(s) in space (a scene). The difficult thing is to do so without getting caught up in your thoughts, judgements and assumptions about the object(s) or scene."

Full blog post available here: Trusting Your Eye: Lessons from Drawing Class - Laura K. Smith Paintings (lauraksmithpaintings.com)