Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College Belts Retooling their palette and reconsidering

Retooling their palette and reconsidering their techniques

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In this unique and very personal volume

a means of exercising the eye

Pamela Fletcher

Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College Belts Retooling their palette and reconsideringPresenting historic and contemporary selections from one of the nations oldest collections of drawings, this richly illustrated and highly engaging volume explores the significance and pleasures found in tracing movements of the hand on paper by asking the question Why Draw? An intimate art form, drawing offers a direct connection to ones imagination; a means of exercising the eye, brain, and the hand; and a way to spark new ideas and resolve