This drawing started out as an exercise in steady-handedness. First there was a rectangle the approximate shape of American currency. It was sectioned into thirds with parallel close-set lines. Subrectangles of 15×15 grids were then drawn within those thirds. It was easy to imagine the encapsulated gridboard as a backdrop, and not too hard to imagine a guitarist in front of it, and erase out the parts of the gridboard the guitarist would occlude. The space became more palpable with the addition of side panels, and a stool wanted to exist beside the guitarist, and erased its superimposed backdrop and then drew itself with bottle and glass resting on its seat.

Long story short: it does not take much to define a space using grids and/or rectangles, and a defined space makes it easy to visualize figures or other objects within it. Try it and tell me what happened, and you’ll make my day. [smiles]