Nude 1917

This line drawing on paper, titled 'Nude,' was made by Egon Schiele. The artist's lines look a bit like my own, tremulous, searching and, through those slight wobbles, full of feeling! The model is in the process of becoming; the lines aren't set, or fixed. There's a realness to that searching, like it's happening right now. I wonder if it's like that for you too? I feel Schiele's looking, feeling, making a mark, then re-looking, thinking, and re-doing. Sometimes the line gets darker where he’s gone over it a few times. And isn’t the effect one of realness? I feel like he's speaking to me, like we're both thinking about how to draw, how to make a world appear on paper... It makes me feel like drawing too!