Writing as drawing

A series of photos on the intersections between the creation of visual and language arts. The creative act of creating an image and the creative act of coupling words together into a sentence and those sentences into a paragraph and finally into the essay or narrative are, I think, similar.

Page of a paper.

Sketch of an elbow by Leonardo da Vinci. You can find this image in his Last Supper.

More sketches by Leonardo that appear in the Last Supper.

The Last Supper. In my writing class, I emphasize the parallels between the acts of sketching images & coupling words together.

These photos of one of deKooning's Woman paintings show how he worked and reworked an image. Vision & revision.