Category: Art

While I was writing my second novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig, I found myself returning to a type of drawing I first encountered in secondary school, while studying for my Leaving Cert Technical Drawing course. Michael, the narrator of my novel is a retired bridge engineer and during his career he would have used the same sorts of drawing materials and methods I had encountered while doing this course in school. This kind of drawing is called descriptive and/or projective …