A Painter's thoughts on color and form

Like that of many art students, my initial training seemed dominated by linear drawing, so that painting too often became a matter of outlining shapes and then coloring them in. It was not until I more closely studied the work of Cézanne. Seurat, Robert Delaunay, and other great colorists, that I gained more insight into how color might be used independently of drawing, of how color could create its own form and ultimately become a subject of artistic experiment in its own right. This article examines one artist's thoughts on the relationship between drawing and color, set within a wider, art‐historical context.