Art

Yes, Natalie. You Are An Artist!

Some of the Greatest Artists in History Have Used Tracing.

Francis Lee
8 min readNov 18, 2023

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Celestial Nude by Francis Lee (image by author)

Dear Natalie,

You recently wrote this story:

As a mutual artist, I was immediately struck by your artwork.

I wrote:

Wow, I love that Pooh Bear Drawing.

And you wrote:

Thanks for your fun loving comment — although, let’s fix the misconception ASAP! There is only one of us who can dabble both in the physics realm and that of an artist like a pro and that’s you!! 👏🏽😀…kind sir, what I did was printed a picture and then started all of this with a trace!! The good-ole-tracing technique that only non artists use!! 😂…that was the AI technique in the 80s when we had to draw…

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Francis Lee

My daily intention is to live in Nothingness. In this space of nothingness, there resides pure joy. There is no wanting or waiting here, just surrendering.