Sketch: Jordan Stretching

February 3, 2011

A quick sketch with charcoal pencils.

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How To Explain It To Your Parents

January 28, 2011

So how do you explain what you do to your family, to your parents? It was hard enough for my brother to explain he was in IT Support, so what hope do you have of conveying meaning when you’re doing something as seemingly esoteric as creating art?

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Quality/Quantity

January 23, 2011

I distinctly recall reading something in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way about concentrating on the quantity and leaving the ‘quality’ to God. Well today I’ve been doing that. The quality is fairly uninspiring but there’s something nice – even comforting – about about just churning things out and seeing what happens. And it gives me an opportunity to real play with my materials.

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Happy Birthday To Me

January 22, 2011

It was my 29th birthday yesterday. I’ve never been a ‘bucket list’ kind of guy but somehow the prospect of being one year off thirty made me acutely aware of all the things I haven’t done. The most random things too, like “I’ve never drank sake.”

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Derwent Inktense Experiment

January 17, 2011

Just experimenting with the Derwent Inktense watersoluble pencils I got for Christmas!

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Art Was Always My Consolation

January 14, 2011

Art was always my consolation. In my loneliness I would take comfort in the poems I’d etch out. When peers would ignore me I’d receive interaction and stimulation instead from teachers happy with my work.

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Fear Of Abandoment

January 13, 2011

“Fear is the true name for what ails the blocked artist. It may be fear of failure or fear of success. Most frequently, it is fear of abandonment.”

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Sketch: Davey

January 12, 2011

A sketch of my dear friend David Kerr (whom I have drawn one time before). I must confess I did cheat slightly, omitting the tattoo on his shoulder because it felt too intricate to do justice to.

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