On simplified drawing and personal blogs

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On simplified drawing and personal blogs

Lately I’ve been striving for a more simplified drawing style, so yesterday I decided to practice in my Sketchbook Journal with a photo reference—a picture I liked from Chris Glass.*

If you click on the link, you’ll see that I left out many details from the photo in my drawing—other people, gadgets, furnishings—but I learned again that what you leave out is as important as what you leave in when drawing. It’s difficult to make those choices.

I don’t think I could

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Immediate, Imperfect and Grounding

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Immediate, Imperfect and Grounding

“In the journal I do not express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself.”—Susan Sontag

I am someone who has kept journals for most of my life. And Sontag gets it right. I don’t write and draw (paint and collage) in journals to share secrets with myself.

I mean, ok, sure, some pages are private, but mostly, as I look at my shelf of notebooks filled with words and pictures, I see that these meditations and ruminations are a reflection of myself in the making.

Through this work,

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Links! Let’s bring blogrolls back!

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Links! Let’s bring blogrolls back!

I’ve added a new blogroll to my sidebar on my website!

It’s full of links to my favorite people on the internet—artists, writers, thinkers and all around interesting humans—who have something real to say and share. I hope you’ll check them out and subscribe to some of them and follow their blogging shenanigans. And maybe share links to your favorite blogs with your friends too!

I also really hope that blogrolls make a comeback so I thought I’d help start the ball ‘rolling.’ Maybe I can convince other bloggers to bring back their blogrolls, too. You never know.

Why?

Because I am a raving blog fan

And I want more people to find the great stuff out there.

And a blogroll, if you don’t know, is simply a list of blogs on a blogger’s sidebar to help people find great stuff.

They used to be a big thing before mass social media. Bloggers linked to other blogs on their sidebar blogrolls and other bloggers linked back to them on theirs. The more links across the blogosphere, the more everyone could find each other.

It was a good idea and we should bring it back.

Have I convinced you yet to jump on over to my new blogroll to check out my favorite blogs?

You’ll find it on my sidebar.

And while you’re at it—I updated my gallery and my welcome statement. You’ll find those directly on my website too. I’d love to know what you think so drop me a line if you feel like it and let me know.

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P.S. In case you’re curious

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10 Things I'm Doing Lately

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10 Things I'm Doing Lately

Greetings! I’ve wandered away from the blog a bit, but now I’ve come back. Blogging is one of those items on my “all the things” list from #4 below that I am prioritizing. It’s something I want to do consistently, reliably and meaningfully.

Why? Well, because writing helps me think clearly and I like to read blogs. But I think what keeps the flame burning is that it simply feels important to share what moves through me. There’s something to share.

Yep, that is why. So this blog continues and I hope you will find it interesting and useful and that you will subscribe. It’s free and you can get new posts by Email or RSS Reader.

So - to bring you up to date, here’s a list of 10 things I’m doing lately:

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What does earth and spirit have to do with art?

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You might notice that I’m dedicating my blog to my three passions—art, spirit and earth—but it seems that mostly and so far, I talk about art.

You might suspect there’s some kind of struggle going on with me—and you wouldn’t be wrong.

So here’s the truth. I LOVE to draw and paint and creatively problem solve and share my creative life. Which is what I do every chance I get—online and off. I’ve mentioned this journey several times lately—I love art making and I’m all in. That metaphorical plate is spinning in the air.

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