Drawing 101

          Drawing 101

                  1.
               Line
             not the shortest path
            between two points
            but the scenic
            route, wandering beyond
            them both.

                  2. 
               Edge
            the place where one thing ends,
            just before another begins,
            separating the bird
            from the sky
            and the fish
            from the sea
            while conceptual artists
            explore the narrow space
            between beauty and
            bullshit.

                3.
     Negative Space
            It is what
            it isn’t.
            (Absence makes
            the art
            profounder.)
         
               4.
    Two Point Perspective
     In space, the farther
     the fainter and smaller.
     In time, some things grow
     larger with distance.
   
            5.
        Value
Squint and blur your sight
for a second and the world
becomes more light and dark,
not black and white exactly
but more than fifty shades
of gray.