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The Process of a Genius
9th May 2016
I saw a sketch today of Vincent Van Gogh and it made me think. So often we just see the stunning finished work of these great masterpieces but never the process. I think that the process reveals so much about the mind behind. I have gathered together some drawings of Dutch artist Van Gogh who took drawing so seriously he pretty much did nothing else for the first 3 years of his career. He believed this would give him a firm foundation to become a great artist. Van Gogh is a draftsman first, his paintings are like drawings with paint and seeing his sketches allows us to peek at the core of his process.
![Van Gogh drawing of boats](https://www.pickledesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/van-gogh-men-unloading-barges.jpg)
![Vincent Van Gough's sketch of Haystacks near a farm](https://www.pickledesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/3542cb8228.jpeg)
Hi drawings have just as much movement and energy as his paintings do. They also seem wonderfully basic – just lines on a page, light and dark – but they bring forth the beginning of something great.
![Café Au Charbonnage - To Theo Van Gogh (Vincent's brother) from Laken (near Brussels)](https://www.pickledesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/van-gogh1.jpg)
![Van Gogh sketch for The rock of Montmajour with pine trees](https://www.pickledesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/esman_vangogh_1.jpg)
It is interesting for me to look at his stenches as I have always been drawn to his work because of the colour. Colour is such a magnet to me, be that nature, art, fashion or spaces, it is actually quite interesting to consider the form without the colour.
![Vincent van Gogh: Starry Night. Drawing. Saint-Remy: June, 1889.](https://www.pickledesign.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Vincent-Van-Gogh-Tree-drawings-11.jpg)
![Pencil Illustration](https://www.pickledesign.co.uk/wp-content/themes/pickled/images/pencil.png)