Today is one of those days. I feel a shadowy presence roaming along the borders of my consciousness. I sense it there, unformed; a half-life seeking birth and expression. Its lack of definition offers me unrest and dis-ease. I understand. I used to let these vague feelings of non-being permeate my entire day, my entire being – I identified with it. Now I …
I wonder who you are?!
I wonder who you are?! \’I am an artist.\’ \’I\’m a dentist.\’ \’I\’m a grad student.\’ \’I\’m a raging lunatic.\’ Standard answers that indicate our affiliations: (\’I\’m a Spartans fan\’, I\’m a Christian, I\’m a Democrat ) our jobs (\’I\’m a mother\’, \’I\’m a dentist\’) or other identities we hold dear. So dear they\’ve become us; define …
David Bohm on art
As a kid/young adult, one of my favorite radio programs was New Dimensions Radio – with Michael and Justine Toms. Michael interviewed physicist David Bohm and I feel the resonances of that talk rippling across the years of my life. The New Dimensions site is temporarily down today, but it\’s well worth checking out their archives and …
good books
One of my favorite books. If I get stuck, it becomes the voice of my muse- a quick way to connect myself back to that inner place where things are not always as they seem. p.231 – He’s been talking of women, in their traditional/ancient roles of courtesan (proficient in arts, literature and talk) housewife …
You belong.
Some days it just good to know that you\’re alive. That you have a pulse and that you\’re breathing. That\’s all we really have anyway. Our connection to Life- through our breath- is the most sacred, the most Holy spot on earth. Our breath is in fact, the center of our personal little universe. It\’s …
Eraser Magic
As if by magic, but actually by eraser, her hand is gone. It was awkwardly coming up from the lower left hand corner, and was weirdly small. This is another thing I love about this technique: eraserability (no, not actually a word says my spellcheck. really? It\’s perfect.) The ability to be erased. Nice. Anyway, …
Verithin pencils
I\’ve added more colored pencil- prismacolor verithins. This helps me block out the darks and make sure the all over color is going to be balanced. I used copic marker (E00 + E21) for her neck- checking how the color of the pencil shading will show through. What\’s great about this technique is that the pencil can …
practice practice practice.
I have had someone ask me to draw Merlin. So I am practicing. And this is how I practice. Grab a magazine cover and the markers. I chose this cover initially, because I loved this man\’s intense stare, thinking that to my mind, a Merlin may in fact have a similar countenance. This is only the …