Where the spirit leads, the feet will follow…
down distant paths for unmapped miles.
Heads forget but hearts remember.
The art of living knows no bounds.
(from an advertisement for Prana)
Meditation – Thanksgiving – 26 November 2020
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Meditation – 23 November 2020
Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple,
that’s creativity.
– Charles Mingus
Ol’ Paint in Paint Only
I’m still working on going directly to paint without using pencil guidelines.
Trouble is, I seem to need those guidelines to get the horse’s hooves on the page too.
(Transparent Red Oxide and Indanthrone Blue… both Daniel Smith.)
Meditation – 16 November 2020
Everyone is born creative. Everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the “creative bug” is just a wee voice telling you, “I’d like my crayons back, please.
– Hugh MacLeod
Mistakes never equals disaster.
– Tommy Kane
There is no substitute for hard work.
– Thomas Edison
Big Book Binding Bash – Autumn 2020
Thirteen sketchbooks bound!
From left to right:
Two – Fabriano Artistico Hot Press Extra White 140 lb. / 300 gsm (72 pages/book)
One – Fabriano Artistico Cold Press Traditional White 90 lb. / 200 gsm. (84 pages/book)
Two – Fabriano Artistico Hot Press Traditional White 90 lb. / 200gsm. (72 pages/book)
Eight – Strathmore 500 Mixed Media 90 lb. / 190 gsm (84 pages/book)
I can buy commercially made portrait and landscape sketchbooks containing acceptable paper, but I make books so I can have the size and format I like, here nearly 7.5 in. square, with paper that’s better than merely acceptable. And I like to dress up my books by covering the front with sparkly acrylic ink painted paper. It adds personality as well as keeping me oriented so I don’t have random upside down sketches included when I’m done.
I really should shelve all my unused sketchbooks together and take a complete inventory since I have no idea how many others are waiting in the wings… but can there be too many?
Not if they’re used. I’m off to get some sketching done!
Meditation – 09 November 2020
ASICS
Anima Sana In Corpore Sano – a sound mind in a sound body.
Finally, It’s Election Day – 03 November 2020
“The vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it.”
– John Lewis – late civil rights activist and US House of Representative – GA
(This is my take on the Palo Alto City Library’s voting graphic.)
Meditation – Your Vote Counts – 02 November 2020
If you haven’t already voted, either by absentee or in-person early voting, please schedule time tomorrow to visit the polls and cast your ballot.
“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interest to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there’s no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.”
– David Foster Wallace – Up, Simba!
This Vote image is a riff on Robert Indiana’s Love image, postage stamp and sculptures.
Election Season is Nearing an End
“We are not helpless. The fire is still burning. Please go out and vote this November. Too many people have died and sacrificed so much for us to have our voice, we have to use it. Get in formation. Use our voices to do something great for our children.”
– Beyoncé
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