There’s something to be said for paper, which seems ironic considering I am typing this right now. But let us not confuse my love of paper for some loathing of typing on my part – I enjoy typing (now, at least), and it is a vastly useful writing tool. I am fortunate to be of a generation that the rise of the machine (computers, as you call them) was introduced during my youth, and when my sixth-grade teacher pleaded with my parents to get me a “typing machine” so that my abhorred handwriting would not hamper everything in my life, from high school to college to jobs to anywhere/everywhere printed words come in handy, and since I am a writer, the written word is big, my parents obliged.
Write on! I think there might be something to that in art making as well. I did so much digital stuff for so long without physically painting and then when I dusted off the tubes of paint and found my brushes I was aware of a change in thought and approach.
This is great R.J.! Gaiman does a ton of longhand writing, and I believe he wrote all of Stardust with a fountain pen!
Write on! I think there might be something to that in art making as well. I did so much digital stuff for so long without physically painting and then when I dusted off the tubes of paint and found my brushes I was aware of a change in thought and approach.
Great observation!