D R A W I N G   Notes
•	Drawing, sketching, doodling, or taking a line for a walk ( As Paul Klee would have it) is a fundamental, and sometimes unconscious activity. The gear that kicks in, or out maybe, when people doodle, perhaps when they're on the telephone, is a very interesting phenomena - people make the most fantastic and elaborate creations in those moments in their own unconscious styles.
•	It's also fundamental to an artists practice - not to necessarily make a 'likeness' - but to speak in that shorthand language where ideas, the world and everything in it can be reduced to lines, dots, dashes and scribbles. People have asked: - but drawings like Twister, The Long Fall etc. were done well before 911.....it's the two towers thing that does it.
•	Drawing has energy and directness:- it is storyboarding and illustrating - it is furious scribble - it is careful crosshatching and shading - it is cut paper and smudges, it is scratches on rocks and a stick in the sand: if I never painted anything again - I would always draw.
•	Over the years I've learned to use Photoshop creatively - as a fluid means of expression as well as a high powered Swiss army knife. I started scanning in sketches and working on them to make a different kind of 'finished drawing' that could be presented as a print. Most of the drawings here are like that, except things like the black ink drawings of 'Storms' etc and the House Objects series.
•	The Sum over Paths series were done as pencil drawings on watercolour paper. There were over 20 of them, very direct and very fast because I had an idea I was persuing, after reading some Richard Feynman - click here  for a little about Sum Over Paths and Richard Feynman. There are more drawing galleries to come
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