Drawing is the basis of observation, but not with scientific detachment. Instead, drawing connects the artist intensely with the seen. As Cezanne said, “The landscape speaks to me.”
These are pages from my sketchbook.
A day at the zoo – there is something so immediate about drawing an animal that keeps moving – For these drawings I like to use a pen that flows across the paper with continuous movement:
Clifornia (Blue Lake) drawing
California (Arcata flatlands) drawing
Adirondacks roads drawing
Hand one
Maybe Del Sarto’s foot
The Madonna’s hand
Gondola one
Gondola two
Boat in Venice
Zebra drawing – pencil
Zebra drawing – pencil
Zebra drawing – ink
Chair of Italy – Venice
Chair of Italy – Milan
Chair of Italy – Duomo somewhere…
Mexican sketch, 2 (church grounds)
Mexican sketch, 3 (church courtyard)
Mexican sketch, 4 (Another church)
Bellini hands, Vatican museum
Hands from the Vatican
Drawing at the museum
Drawing at the museum
Drawing at the museum
Drawing at the museum
Drawing at the museum
Drawing of a gravestone angel
Drawing Bayre’s lion at the Louvre
Two baby owls
Sketching at the Uffizi Gallery
Treacy Ziegler 
Great work! Love the drawings and also section on process. I’m about to move into using armature after a couple of my pieces blew up in the communal arts centre kiln. Thanks so much for sharing.
Miranda (formerly art school trained, landscape architect & lecturer, newly taken up mainly animal , clay sculpture)
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Thanks Miranda! You can see more process on my facebook page. I just created a 12-foot giraffe – It was a big deal to make the armature for that because the armature had to hold about 700 pounds of clay on relatively thin legs. Can’t remember if I posted any of those photos
on my webpage. If not, I will post them. Good luck with the armature. (By the way – I had to take two semesters of welding to figure it out.)
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