Drawing

Mastery of Line by Jeannine Cook

Suzanne Valadon, from very inauspicious beginnings, worked her way determinedly and passionately to great success and recognition as a woman artist of enormous courage and great skill especially in drawing. She achieved all this at a time when women of humble birth were simply never accepted in the artistic worlds of late 19th-early 20th century Paris. She came from hard-working, stoic Limousin stock, as she depicted in this portrait of her mother.

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Drawing in the Studiolo by Jeannine Cook

An interesting and thought-provoking drawing exhibition was on view until the end of September at the Centro de Arte e Cultura da Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal. Many of the texts accompanying the show were worth pondering.

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Revisiting Earlier Drawings by Jeannine Cook

The tang of mint, the fragility of a lily - botanical drawing teaches about so many aspects of plants. Yet it is interesting to measure that as I have evolved as an artist, those earlier drawings have led me on to learning so much more about trees, rocks, environments, places. Seeing two exhibitions of my botanical metalpoint drawings up now in Berkeley and Oakland at the same time is both a celebration and a realisation of how the world can teach us artists so much more, all the time.

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A Passion for Drawing by Jeannine Cook

Three exhibitions in New York, each by a superb artist in a different century, but all united by a lifelong passion to draw, draw, draw, anything and everything. For an artist, these current exhibitions are a wonderful reaffirmation of the central role drawing potentially plays in the development and creativity of an artist. Gainsborough, Delacroix, Wayne Thiebaud - three very dissimilar artists, yet they are all on the same page in a drawing book.

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