My Ideal Drawing

This is M.C. Escher's Day and Night. I have always loved and appreciated M.C. Escher. His imagination, mathematical precision, and subject matter all blend to create some of the best art out there. Growing up, my mom got me the complete works of M.C. Escher, and I would spend hours trying to recreate his art. I am a big fan of math, and as a result, Escher's work was appealing to me. This particular piece represents the ideal drawing because it does such a great job blending the real with the surreal. Like the Charles Addams drawing, Embellished Elevation of the Carnegie Museum, this piece is a both a subjective and objective drawing. I would classify this as a conceptual drawing. I have always liked this piece and his self portrait through the glass globe quite a bit.