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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Journal — Creative Excavation

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My digital journal experiment continues. I have to say, I think this kind of visual summary of my week will be useful as a way to reflect and move through my practice.

It’s been a creative week. Emotionally (and creatively) I was all over the place—but I think I landed somewhere. Or at least somewhere else. I’ll never really get over losing my dog—Rufus was a part of the family—but this is how it is when losing someone you love. Loss is real—and life goes on. Eventually the happy memories will linger longer than the pain.

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