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The Big Draw LA - Resources Check out our growing list of sites and resources to help you organize an event, or simply get back to drawing!

The Big Draw LA 2011 BLOG - read here!
Campaign for Drawing www.campaignfordrawing.org
Sumi Ink Club: http://sumiinkclub.com/
Big Draw NYC: www.drawingcenter.org/events_bigdraw.cfm
The Big Draw at the RISD Museum: Click Here
The Big Draw LA Logos - Download HERE
The Big Draw LA Poster Template - Download HERE

Read "Beyond Attendance: A Multi-Modal Understanding of Arts Participation"
by National Endowment for the Arts

Books Related to Drawing

Drawing as a Sacred Activity: Simple Steps to Exlore Your Feelings and Heal Your Consciousness
by Heather C. Williams

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards

Expressive Drawing: A Practical Guide to Freeing the Artist Within
by Stebem Aimone

The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing As Meditation
by Frederick Franck

Quotes Related to Drawing

“I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing..”
-Frank Gehry

The Big Draw LA - Resources “I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.”
-Frank Gehry

"All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?"
-Banksy

“Drawing is one way to feel your feelings.”
-Heather C. Williams

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
–Paul Klee

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Big Draw LA - Resources Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
-Marc Davis

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
-Keith Haring

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
-Salvador Dali

The Big Draw LA - Resources I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
-Le Corbusier

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
-Peter Wright

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
-Paul Klee

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
-John W. Gardner

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
-Frank Darabont