Pamela

I’ve finished the online course today and I’m reminded of my first thought when I started the course; the journaling process reminded me of ancient cave painters. Why did that image come into my mind? In exploring the thought, it occurred to me that they were getting in touch with their surrounding and wanted to express what? Wonder, awe, or just the process of observing and learning about the world around them. They didn’t have watercolors or tablets, photographs or the internet to work from, any of the tools we have today but, I suspect their motives were the same as ours. They were drawing from memory the fleeting images of the animals around them. What beautiful simple images – using minimal lines and color They used value and perspective with simple lines to convey an image.