High Flying Catwalk

Doing Dodo

About drawing (an extinct bird) in blindness:

When there is something I would like to have a closer look at, I occasionally use a special drawing technique which goes like this: while I am drawing the chosen object, I simultaneously look intensely at the object while restraining from looking at the paper during the drawing process.
This method is suitable for all - also people who suffers from "fear of drawing", as it is not about being able to draw in the traditional way.
The separation of hand, eyes and object provides a tiny twist in ones view of the world - and it often results in some quite quirky drawings.

Here I have been drawing the Dodo which in any case must be drawn in blindness as it became extinct in 1681.

More about the Dodo in another natural history.

Natural History no. 215

Swedish forest landscape anno 2009