Man of the Year
ArtBoard members and visitors know Roger Marz as the ‘old man mad on drawing’. Roger really is a prolific and dedicated artist who has done thousands of sketches and drawings in just the last few years.
Recently Roger created a 2007 desk calendar with floral and tree sketches for every week. The article ‘How to make 2007 Bloom’ is featured this month on the ArtCafe.Net along with Roger’s article on sketching on location.
Roger, a long-time member of the ArtCafe Network, is helping to support the ArtCafe with sales of the calendar and a link is also on the main page.
Drawing daily as Roger does takes dedication and perserverence. It is always hard to set aside the chores of daily life to spend time at an activity most people regard as frivilous or just for fun. Drawing on a regular basis is not always fun, it takes continual focus and concentrated thinking and it is often tempting to just skip the drawing and head right for painting when the chance to spend time on art comes along.
The trick is to make sketching or drawing a habit. Keep a pencil or pen and sketch pad handy and reach for it often. Don’t feel that every sketch needs to be a finished, frameable masterpiece. Drawing is a way of thinking graphically and the more we work at it the better the results for all of our art efforts.