Distracted But Committed

“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. 

Power. Prioritize your passion. 

It keeps you sane.”
  ~ Criss Jami

I'm really distracted from drawing at the moment, all wrapped up in 

getting ready for my fast approaching  one woman show.

 I do try to keep my commitments though, so here's today's 2 min. gesture attempt.

Got To Start Somewhere

“Every artist was first an amateur.”
~  Ralph Waldo Emerson 

    

“Joy is the feeling of one's powers increasing.”
  ~  Matthew B. Crawford

Wake Up Your Senses

"Artists get better by sharpening their skills  or by

acquiring new ones; they get better by learning to work, 

and by learning from their work."

~  David Bayles

"Drawing wakes up the senses and skills, 

and work is sharpened in other mediums." 

~ Timothy Nero

Quick As A Bunny

"As each new skill is learned, you will

merge it with those previously learned until, 

one day, you are simply drawing -  just as, 

one day, you found yourself simply driving 

without thinking about how to do it."

~ Betty Edwards

 "Skills can be found, like lost items that have always belonged to you. 

 If the spirit of learning is there, the passion of creation will never die."

 ~ Melissa Jean

More Rabbits and Bunnies, Oh My!

Couldn't get online last night, so here's Friday's and Saturday's drawings.
Have a Hoppy Day!

Quick like a Bunny

Yesterday I stressed the concept of working fast in my painting class. For some, it's a hard habit to get into. I think it allows the right, intuitive side of the brain to take over. ACCORDING TO BETTY EDWARDS, author of DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN; "The right brain perceives and processes visual information, in the way one needs to see in order to draw, and the left brain perceives in ways that seem to interfere with drawing."