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| EXHIBITS |
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| Évora |
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| Member’s Exhibit |
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| John Cody |
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| Poster Session |
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| Isabel Catalão |
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| Sagres |
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| Oceans |
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| Lisbon |
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| Scientific Illustration |
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| Medical Illustration |
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| Guild of Natural Science Illustrators GNSI 2000 Portugal: International Conference & Annual Meeting July 30 - August 07 2000 in Évora, Lisboa and Sagres, Portugal. |
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The Purpose of Sketching
©2000 Amelia Janes
Sketch of landforms at Dry Falls, Washington.
Drawing demands careful observation. Observation is a conscious viewing directed toward certain objects. "It takes a considerable difference if one views something with a sketching pen in hand than without the pen in hand." Paul Valery
Sketching forces the cartographer to think objectively and abstractly, and develops the skill needed to transform complex natural phenomena into simple lines and strokes. It develops judgment and encourages a taste for graphic understanding.
A serious sketcher often feels discontent with his or her result when faced with nature. Sketching can be an endless wrestling between form and expression. Despite, and perhaps because of this conflict, landscape sketching can bring great satisfaction. It provides and increases the interest in the activity of drawing maps.
Sketch of plucked basalt in the Channeled Scablands, Washington.
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Last Updated: Sept. 20, 2000.