Drawings Drawing is the foundation skill of all two-dimensional art. Before I began to create art for the public, I mailed hand-drawn cards to family members. My nephew Rob in Frankenmuth, Michigan, reported that his public school art teacher told him, "Your uncle can draw better than I can…but can he paint?!" Her praise contained the suggestion that applying pigment with a brush is somehow a higher art form that pigment applied with a pencil or a stick of pastel. While I sensed a fallacy in that art teacher's words, it was only when I began to study under the master landscape artist, David Paul Cook, at the Arkansas Arts Center's Museum School, that I heard him echo the words of one who was a master to him, "When I paint, I am drawing until the very last stroke."