Draw what you 'See' not what you 'Think'

It is impossible to teach someone to draw unless you have first taught them to see. It amazes me how many people set about making a drawing only to be disappointed in the result.  The drawing doesn't look like what they were drawing.  The issue is not their drawing skill but rather their ability to really see the elements in front of them. Too often we draw what we 'think' we see rather than truly seeing. Once we look beyond the impression we create in our mind we can see the world very differently. Objects stop being isolated elements in space and take on relationships to one another. These relationships inform us of the space that they exist within.  Only once we see this way can we begin to compose an image.

It might be said that too often in our every day lives we look but don't see. If we relate to the world only through the way we imagine it to be we fail to see the beauty and connection that truly exists.