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My Son’s Drawings II

August 17, 2018 by Nicholas Hedges

I’ve written before about how I find inspiration in my young son’s drawings, or in how he draws. He drew this picture before breakfast one day and I was very taken aback by it, particularly the way he’d coloured it in, using (in the main) fairly neat blocks of different colours. It has inspired me to just draw, to not think too much about what one is drawing, or rather how one is drawing, but to just take, as Paul Klee famously said, the line for a walk.

It shares something with a painting he did some times ago in which again, he painted using blocks of individual colour.

Filed Under: Eliot's drawings

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