Who makes the grass green? « Heartstorm Studio

Who makes the grass green?

20Aug08

Strummy Porch Sitter, Graphite on paper, 4 x 6 in

Everybody thinks you gotta go through a lot of effort to realize your union with everything, but actually you’re experiencing your union with everything all the time. Otherwise you wouldn’t be experiencing anything. You make the grass green. You make your highs and you make your lows. But you don’t do it alone. You’re making it out of your union with the universe.

Robert Anton Wilson

This is a sort of contour drawing made with almost complete attention on the subject and very little looking down at the pencil on the page. It’s so relaxing to forget about what your drawing looks like and just soak in the shapes and lines you see in front of you. Also, this type of drawing can be an incredibly helpful warm-up for doing an observational drawing. Sometimes a contour drawing turns out really silly looking, but sometimes not! I really like this one. In my experience, if you’re doing the drawing while focusing all your attention on the subject, it’s much easier to express the aliveness you’re witnessing.

You almost can convince yourself that your pencil knows the subject. It’s so much fun when the object in front of you and your paper and your pencil all seem to merge together. That’s when art-making demonstrates a “union with the universe” for me.