My drawing from Alphonse Mucha's "Job" cigarette papers lithograph from 1898. Drawing from real life or from real objects in front of you is necessary for visual artistic development. Drawing from a master allows you to retrace the artist's compositional decisions and experience its shapes for yourself. While I was drawing this in the Mucha Museum in Prague, two women were talking about the nature of the advertisement. I told them that they were rolling papers for tobacco but most people probably rolled something else with them. Then an older gentleman with somewhat long gray hair and socks with sandals gleefully chimed in, "You bet they do." Another reason to draw in museums:)

2018