Drawing Shapes

Light ! I'm drawing in your honour : that's a pompous way indeed to explain the word "photography".
Every techniques of figurative picture - drawing, painting - try to reproduce real things with more or less realism. This latest should not be an absolute aim. You had better avoid it, because you would take a risk to obtain a rigorously exact sight of the model. Without any sensibility. Through his work, the artist's emotion must be discreetly expressed, in order to begin an exchange of points of view with the spectator and have a personal sensation from him, by return. Exciting visitor's imagination, what more remarkable?
Whatever its nature - figurative or abstract - any worthy picture should reply to this exigency. One and other use clever means, as structural solidity, elegantly drawn architectural lines, subtle contracts of greys or colours, in short the graphic shape.
Graphic shape created by the author. Or suggested by the characteristics of the model : a lighting against the sun, a snowy landscape, a proximity of shadows and illuminations, a slim subject, and so on... In that second case, there is a mute accordance between the creator and his model...
(copyright Jean-Michel Cagnon)