I am thrilled to have my work included in a new drawing textbook by Wayne Enstice and Melody Peters. The book looks excellent and very useful.

I hope you’ll forgive the enormous kick I’m getting from my index listing smack dab between Degas and de Kooning.

My hope is to spawn a modest klatsch of student acolytes who will discover, perhaps at my posthumous garage sale, that they make up a quorum for some Aussie rules football or badminton. After the spirited playing of which they will go for a stroll among trees and ponder lofty thoughts about the endless reckonings to be had with paper and a pencil.

Then they will go home and draw. Then draw some more. And they will encourage others both youngster and oldster.

This is my beautiful dream.

I’m going to study this textbook, see what I can learn.