I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.
I have been drawing all my life.
One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.
I work pretty quickly. I'd probably draw somebody once or twice in pencil, then just go to ink. Not really care too much about it, and it just kind of worked out.
We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.
After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
I love very much to draw animals.
My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.
I gravitate toward floral and graphic prints.