Tanya and I were in the fast-growing town of San Louis Obispo for the last couple of days and while she went to some work-related meetings I made these "non-objective" pictures.
I am so accustomed to record what I see while drawing that it is quite a shift of gears to draw without referring to the usual aspects-- but since cell phone cameras are so ubiquitous for capturing images, it is fun to make pictures without reference to the natural world.
I have heard and even made the criticism regarding non-objective art that "any child could do that", and maybe they could--but for me as an experienced old-fashioned draw-what-you-see-and-the-most-realistic-one-wins kind of artist--this is not exactly true.
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