The Fine Art of Fitness

© Dad 1979

Drawing has been part of how I communicate for as long as I can remember. Growing up, my school books were filled with drawings rather than class notes. This may not have helped my grades but it did develop my mind in other ways. I learned to form images in my head complete with three-dimensional details. I learned to play with ideas in a visual way. I learned to remember what I saw around me. Pushing a pencil around on a piece of paper was a simple way to describe what I was thinking. It is no small thing to understand your own thoughts and to be able to give expression to those thoughts is empowering.

Eventually I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Rochester Institute of Technology and began working as a commercial illustrator. Art has meant different things to me at different times. As a boy it meant entertainment and as a young man it meant my livelihood. What I’ve begun to see as I’ve gotten older is that, in all this time and in whatever way I use it, drawing has really been meditation. Any form of meditation helps to develop the mind and the personality. For me, drawing has trained me to think of myself as one who creates and to view the material in the world as a medium.

© Steve Yarzinsky 2011

Today I continue to develop my personal art with a focus on the human figure and am available for commission work through this site.

For more information about my art, you can search the Fine Art category on this site or use the Contact page to reach me by email.