Maybe it's the colors, or the eye-stretching vistas, or maybe it's just the idea
that harmony can exist on a square of canvas, but there is something in art that
lets it calm and inspire at the same time. It works inside and out, both for the
person making it and the person looking on. Paul Klee found creative serenity in
music. For Whistler it was the dusk. For Monet, the dawn. They and so many other
artists returned to the surroundings they loved time and again to make beautiful
works of art that have continued to calm and inspire viewers ever since.
In Drawing Calm,