Leonardo's
Ink Bottle

by Roberta Weir

Leonardo's Ink Bottle . . . "is an artist's vision different from the way most people see? The sensitive eye is the innocent eye, a way of seeing which has remained open to the freshness of view experienced by a child, free of preconceptions, unlimited by ideas of what is possible and what is not."

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Leonardo's ink Bottle

The artist's search for unique, meaningful expressing, on paper or canvas, in clay or marble, wood or bronze, is actually mirrored in each of us. Whether you are composing a letter, a song, lyric, or a landscape, the desire is the same: to express yourself easily, elegantly, and eloquently.

"An artist by vocation and profession, Roberts Weir guides the reader with a steady voice and a sure hand.

Part 1 describes the rediscovery of and reliance upon instinct, intuition, and the quicksilver nature of inspiration and asks us to lay the accepted definitions of "logical" interpretation aside.

Part 2 examines the mastery of technique: that is, how we translate what comes in through the lens of the eye and flows out via the instrument of the hand.

Part 3 brings us full circle: having reached a degree of comfort with the nature of inspiration and the mechanics of rendering artistic forms, we are asked to cast it all aside - to stop thinking about it - and just do it.

Robert Weir holds degrees in Art, Creative Writing and Literature from Mills College in Oakland, California and was the director of the Weir Gallery in Berkeley, California from 1987 to 1995."

An extract from the blurb on the book, Leonardo's Ink Bottle.

Celestial Arts Publishing, PO Box 7123, Berkeley, California 94707 USA

Copyright 1998 by Roberta Weir