Drawing and Painting People

Gaston Bachelard’s book Poetic Imagination and Reverie asserts that the distinction between good and bad is of no value: ‘Good taste is an acquired censorship’. T

you use your materials you can be conscious of improving the quality, definition and inventiveness of your marks. If you have been inspired by the touch and textures of other artists’ work, or the sensation and shape of things from your experience, then this is an opportunity to test them out and see how they feel using your materials. Respond to the marks. Let them guide you and seduce you, and then invent new marks that can become fresh additions to your vocabulary.