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The Drawing Archive

Doing a drawing every day for several years adds up to a whole lot of drawings. It became necessary to construct the Drawing Archive.

A few years ago my husband pointed out that I was probably contravening the labour laws by drawing every day, so I now take the weekends off.

Here you will find previous drawings organized by the date they appear on the Drawing-A-Day Email list. I post the drawings to the Archive on a monthly basis or as soon as I get around to it, whichever comes first.

Some of the drawings make me wince. I think my technique is slowly improving, but I have a long way to go. That is one of the things that I love about art. You never create the perfect drawing or the perfect painting. There is always more to learn and room to grow.

The Japanese artist, Hokusai, said it best: “From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the form of things. By the time I was fifty, I had published an infinity of designs, but all that I have produced before the age of seventy is not worth taking into account. At seventy-three I have learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. In consequence, when I am eighty, I shall have made more progress, at ninety I shall penetrate the mystery of things, at a hundred I shall have reached a marvelous stage, and when I am a hundred and ten, everything I do, be it a dot or a line, will be alive.”