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Originally Posted by David Draime
With this drawing I relented a bit and began to let the medium have a "say" as to what would be best for a particular passage. Giving up some control. It seems like a good thing - especially for a control freak like me. I'm more aware now that every medium has particular virtues that are just waiting to be exploited - things that only that medium can do. I know that my task as an artist is to "open up" more to what the materials "want" to do. To me, it's the difference between talking and listening
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David, I've been thinking about this interesting statement since you wrote it and I think you've hit the nail on the head. Changing just one thing when you work often makes a huge difference in the result and the "will of the materials" may play a far larger role than we artists would like to think.