Sandra N.

“In addition, you can be sure your drawing of your surroundings will have a modest degree of originality. After all, nobody else ever made a sketch of the dishes in your sink. That you probably can’t think of a similar image is also helpful.”
― Anna Held Audette, The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse

“a predetermined idea of the outcome. And if you don’t know how your drawing will (or should) appear, you will be forced to observe with more concentration. Finally, your drawing will have a contemporary quality because it is most certainly of your time. One of the many problems with traditional still-life concepts is that they are felt to be based on some vague historical aesthetic and, as in all noncreative revivals, are irrelevant to contemporary art.”
― Anna Held Audette, The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse

“After all, nobody else ever made a sketch of the dishes in your sink. That you probably can’t think of a similar image is also helpful.”
― Anna Held Audette, The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse

“What aspects of the room have meaning for you? Do you have special feelings about a certain chair you prefer or associate with someone you care for, or dislike? (See fig. 13.) Is it something about the relationships between pieces of furniture, crowded or widely spaced, baroque alongside plain, the character of the curtains or the rug? Perhaps the important qualities are more abstract: the color of the light at a certain time of day or the geometry of the windows and doors.”
― Anna Held Audette, The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse