Claude Heath Influence

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Claude Heath (b.1964) is an artist with a unique eye to art. While not blind himself, Heath has developed a skill of not seeing what he draws to allow for a mess of lines just barely forming the shape of an object, but still allowing the viewer to understand the form of the object. A contemporary artist, Heath originally started out drawing blindfolded, enjoying creating with the sense of touch instead of sight. This became his influence, to obtain a relationship with the object by just touching, and establish this relationship into his work For his art piece simply titled ‘Buddha’ Heath has uses 3 different coloured biro pens to produce layer to his art: Black, Green and red. The black layer is the least defined, a quick and blind sketch