Waltzing Matilda

Drawing 1 Dancing Pencils

ecently l held a drawing workshop for a local art group, and while drawing a demo one of the ladies commented that l was painting with my pencil, moving it quickly across the paper, jumping in and out, while another suggested my pencil was waltzing across the paper, and while most of us are happy to receive positive comments, l remembered these two particularly and thought they might make a useful point in this article, so I’m passing them on to you in the hope that you might loosen your wrists when drawing and try to let your pencil or pen flow across your work surface rather than in a series of tight movements, even for those living outside Australia most would know the song Waltzing Matilda as the de-facto Australian national anthem based on Banjo Patterson’s famous poem about the