“The most satisfying and most basic art experience is looking — pure unmediated observation and sensation.” Roy Thurston

How many of us really look, anyway, I wonder? I remember when my 16 yr-old was very small, and I would see beautiful cloud formations, or a sunset, and I would always get him to look. I just thought it was important. Or perhaps it’s that we look and don’t see? During the first two or so weeks of school, we have been doing blind contour line drawings to begin class — to focus and warm up. I tell my students how we have to learn to draw what we see, not what we think we see. Basic. Browsing Pinterest, I found this really nice continuous line drawing by Kris Trappeniers. So, a good example of what you can do with continuous line.