Portrait Master Study of Mau-Kun Lim portrait drawing

This drawing study felt poetic while I was creating it, and I attribute that to two things…. the original artist is absolutely a poetic synthesizer of life, light, and form. And secondly, I drew it with feeling.

We are in different states of existential experience every time each of us stands at our easel… For me I was experiencing enough this day that I needed to feel the flow and energy while drawing. A bit of natural chaos was around me in the form of death and loss. Letting myself find the balance of my tools and allowing myself to sense whatever came up in me is how I feel I am truly alive and suffering loss like so many other people. None of us are alone.

To me, while it is definitely more difficult to focus and drawing when a good bit of life is stirring around me… and yet there is something so soothing about studying a poetic drawing like this to feel the flow of the skills I have honed. I imagine it would be like playing a familiar song for a musician.

Any way, here are the notes I left behind on the paper that day.

warmly,

Laura