Eva Hesse Self-Portraits

Eva Hesse self-portrait show at the UCLA-Hammer Museum. While at the show I heard "a four-year old could do that."

If looking at and imagining the construction of the painting-it is gestural, non-detailed, and emotional--with art tools available universally and inexpensively and requiring no more deftness than already acquired by age four, yes.

If you look at the overall EFFECT, I bet you don't know one four year-old who has achieved the maturity to see that his role is NOT being the center of the universe. A 4 year-old isn't as Jimmy Hendrix is, EXPERIENCED. Hasn't inhaled the Purple Haze yet. Can't express how he feels about the world and his perceived place in it.

THIS PAINTING EXPRESSES the Artist and his Place in a certain view of the world.

In our Drawing Classes, we are trying to develop both our over-all viewing QUICK EYE and the process-observant detail-oriented seeing and saying. See-more. Say-more.

Doing Drawing is a Fundamental component for our art-making. The drawing that we practice weekly shouldn't be weakly done. Have a goal. Get some bigger picture idea captures into your sketchbook's collection.

Give yourself some choices of where to take your figurative art during the rest of the days. Get some context. See what other Figure Artists are doing. Take your eye and your sketchbook to a Museum or Gallery RIGHT NOW to capture ideas.