A few days after the New Year, I started thinking that I wanted to make some kind of creative resolution for 2016. I love drawing, but I haven't done much lately. I think this is mostly due to my tendency to imagine these huge detailed mega-drawings, then get lost somewhere in the planning stage before even putting pen to paper.
I dug through my art supplies and found a pack of clean white 3x5 cards. Close by was my usual stash of sharpies. I found myself wondering if I could fill one little card per day with some sort of sketch. And there it was.
I've decided to forgive myself if I miss a day or two here and there. Whether I complete 365 doodles or 150, it's still a lot of drawing. Certainly more than I had been doing. And hopefully enough to bust through my creative blockages. If--somewhere along the way--I start to formulate something bigger, I'll put the little drawings on hold and post each day's progress on the larger project.
I've been sharing these on Facebook since I started, but for those of you who aren't on Facebook, I'll start posting them here as well.
All are for sale at $25 each.
Enjoy:)
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| What do you see? |
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| Inspired by "surface hoar" crystals I observed on a winter hike at Bandelier National Monument |
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Based on a scene from the book 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson |
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Coma Berenices: my favorite constellation |
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Self Portrait |
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| Inspired by an ice waterfall I discovered at Bandelier National Monument |
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Landscape inspired by Canyonlands National Park, Island in the Sky |
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"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place?
Just this: what is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above.
One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.
There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one has seen higher up.
when one can no longer see, one can at least still know."
--Rene Daumal, from "Dream: the Art of Ascent," by Jeremy Collins |
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A real tree on Bandelier's Main Loop Trail, sketched from life |
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| Sunrise and "Nike swoosh" clouds at Bandelier |
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| Dream Big |
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Sunset over the San Miguels |
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| Crane migration |
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