Dear Students,
If you copy this image with NP blue pencil and let it drive you a little crazy because it won’t be easy, then if you use color pencils you’ll learn a lot. It will take at least two hours — even more—-but by the end you may have a crazy ass drawing on your hands but you will see so many things things about cubes and spheres and and angles and shadows and light and depth that you didn’t see before you took this image on. You can also try it in ink and wash or water color, or Uniball or anything else you can think of. No bigger than 8.5 x11. There is a three point perspective formula you could to do this ‘right’ but that’s not what I’m after. Just want you to start at the top get through it, really looking and letting your NP blue pencil ‘touch’ every edge. Don’t worry at all about how the end product looks. It’s using drawing to help you see and seeing to help you move your hand, leaving some sort of track of this experience on the page.
Sincerely, and kind of mystically,
Prof. Bootsy
Sincerely,
Prof. Bootsy
Pol Bury (Belgian kinetic artist, 1922 – 2005)
16 Balls, 16 Cubes in 8 Rows,1966
TATE, UK
