Drawings
Drawings
The Artist: Mark Walter Schultz
The Hands: Work Horse (right), Scar Face (left)
The Tools: Pencils, Paper (or Chipboard), Charcoal, and/or so many kinds of technical ink pens
Ink, pigment, and a utensil of some kind are in hand. Visions are in mind. Coordinated, meditative movements are tangible, visible, palpable, even in the quietest breath. Thoughts cut loose, and images find their map to detour or to follow. Either way, it's for the sheer exploration of it all. Mark draws daily, nightly, every chance he gets. It is his work, his play, his unwinding and finding. It’s no different than an exhale. He draws because the visions simply want to be born, want to find their realization, because he wants to bring to life that thread of a line that becomes shape, image, object, whether leaf or cloth, cloud or rocket. Colored pencils fill cups by hue, in drawers and jars throughout his studio. Sometimes a simple charcoal pencil is sufficient. Other times, the earth tones of technical inks blend with his favorite blue from an old pastel set, leaving less than an inch of “pencil” left to hold. Erasers are a welcomed, lifelong friend, too. (Ask him about that childhood story sometime.) There are boxes of drawings no one has seen. Files stuffed. This is but a glimpse of the collection. These are from a day in the life of Mark Walter Schultz, thinking, seeing, being precisely, beautifully who he is.