This week, artist and pal Prashant Miranda joins me to discuss one of my favorite books by one of my favorite artists. Paris Sketchbook by Ronald Searle: geni.us/72sOqW (Amazon)
Prashants' gorgeous enthusiasm has inspired me to get some ink inside my Twsbi !😉 planning a trip to Paris in my dreams ... Thanks for sharing this book Danny.
Great video and it was lovely to see Prash join you. He is one of my favourite Sketchbook Skool teachers...love his enthusiasm. The book was definitely inspiring.
You’ve probably seen it before, but Picasso’s “the artist and his model 180 drawings” is another fascinating book. Plus the movie! The mystery of picasso!
short info on Searle for those below who use his name in present tense..he was a great artist and I adore his works...thanks for this video :-) Born Ronald William Fordham Searle 3 March 1920 Cambridge, England Died 30 December 2011 (aged 91)[1] Draguignan, Var, Provence, France Nationality British Known for Illustration,graphic artist, cartoons
Searle's work is (to my mind) very calligraphic. He is not just drawing. He is writing. His work is two dimensional writing (as opposed to one). There is in his work the balance of white space and black space that one sees in written text on a page. You could call it the diametric opposite of photography, in *that* sense. It is WRITING.
Ben Shahn. Don't forget Ben Shahn. He has the same calligraphic, anti-photographic quality. Writing. The time component is very important. And MUSIC! This kind of drawing has the time component of music!