Awareness of and reflection on the experiences of our 5 senses with our subject as related to the creative process of the visual ladder of perception is an important concept to consider and practice. Coming to know your subject more deeply and intimately so as to express what touched you of its extraordinary essence through your sketches and painting.

Practice Exercise: As you become aware of your experience of your senses allow your imagination take flight.

Practice Exercise
Draw an apple – from your memory
Draw an apple – set up a still life – just look - sketch it
Draw the apple – now see something meaningful in it - draw your response to that something
Draw the apple - after you touched it, smelled it, draw that sensation
Draw the apple – after you bit into it, taste it, hear its crunch – draw that sensation