Posts Tagged ‘drawing’
Why not make several?
After traveling in New Mexico and falling in love with the landscape there, I considered purchasing a reproduction of one of Georgia O’Keeffe’s mesa paintings, but then realized what I really wanted to do was make some of my own.
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Tags: art, Black Mesa, drawing, Georgia O'Keeffe, Landscape, New Mexico
allowing discomfort
Drawing can help you travel back to a time or toward a particular fantasy.
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Tags: art, discomfort, drawing, homesickness, New Mexico, road trip, spirituality, travel, uncertainty
Isn’t it time for a vacation?
It is totally delightful here and I feel like I’m floating. This is what it feels like to hit “reset” on your inner spirit. Drawing the house today was so restful. A great way of soaking in the present by making a drawing of it.
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Tags: art, dining room table, drawing, spirituality, the present, vacation
Have you forgotten?
It doesn’t matter what you draw, although it feels great to focus attention on something that appeals to you for whatever reason. All that matters is that you are participating in a relationship with your world. You and your world. How you see it, what you feel about it, how it becomes uniquely alive on your paper as you draw it.
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Tags: art, drawing, flower, practice, Zinnia
Fantastic Waves
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
There’s nothing like a little nonsensical doodling to encourage the imagination. I’m not drawing anything I see in front of me. In fact, this drawing started with a simple set of curvy lines in [...]
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Tags: art, drawing, Fantasy, Imagination, Wave
Riverscape
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci
An hour sitting by a calm river watching a swan float around can do wonders for restoring peace. Talking on the phone with a wise, optimistic, kind-hearted [...]
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Tags: art, drawing, friendship, Penobscot River, river, spirituality, Swan, Westbrook Riverwalk
Building Enthusiasm
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours…If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David [...]
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Tags: art, drawing, Enthusiasm, Henry David Thoreau, Paint brushes
I topped this… off with a self portrait and had to fight a bit with it. There were all kinds of scratchy lines and exaggerated features. Maybe sometimes you just need conflict. This is life.
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Tags: art, drawing, self-expression, self-portrait
Who makes the grass green?
This is a sort of contour drawing made with almost complete attention on the subject and very little looking down at the pencil on the page. It’s so relaxing to forget about what your drawing looks like and just soak in the shapes and lines you see in front of you.
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Tags: art, contour drawing, drawing, freedom, guitar, observational drawing, Robert Anton Wilson
Flittering!
Sometimes I get excited about a drawing and as a result my line gets excited too — dark, high contrast, a bit wild. This was such a peaceful moment. I’m pleased the line stayed soft and delicate to match.
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Tags: art, drawing, figure drawing, Mount Chocorua, White Mountains
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