The commissioned pencil drawing presented several challenges. When a place is really beautiful, visually captivating, unusually interesting, my oh my it is difficult to choose the right view! I didn’t intend to draw this view but thought it made a nice photo. The door by which one enters a building is considered the “face” and […]
Commissioned Pencil Drawing Coming Up
I’m drawing my brains out, working on The Cabins of Wilsonia. (Okay, I’m not really drawing my brains out – I need them for stuff like posting to my blog. Try not to take me too literally here.) When I get commissions, I take a break from that Giant Project. There is a house here in […]
What Happens in My Brain While I Draw
A list is coming. First, please enjoy this drawing of a Wilsonia cabin: Turned out pretty well, especially considering it was another one of those cabins with cedar trees blocking much of its detail. Here is the sort of thing that runs through my head while I draw. 1. Yea! This is #________. I’m on […]
Fear and Drawing a Book of Cabins
Fear is a great obstacle to creativity. This post lists common info about fear and a list of my personal worries (an easier word to stomach than fear, as if I’m not a Big Chicken). Here is a list of random thoughts about fear: 1. The greatest fear that is most common to people is […]
More Thoughts About Happiness
I’m not done telling you about The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. These are thoughts that struck me as I read through her chapter on happiness at work. (You can call me “List Lady” today.) 1. “Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.” No kidding! My drawing students who are unexperienced but enthusiastic often […]
Happiness and Drawing a Book
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun has captivated me. She is a writer who had a flash of insight: “The days are long but the years are short”. She realized that she wasn’t enjoying […]
Random Thoughts on a Friday
1. Nothing to report about Mineral King. You can look at the webcam. I’m drawing in the studio, and Trail Guy is probably skiing. I think he should be renamed “Ski Guy” this winter. 2. I used to have a Blog Roll, which is a list of blogs I read. I don’t think any […]
A Peek into the Wilsonia Project
Perhaps I should have titled this “Book Report”. Then, you might have gotten it confused with my old Reading Rabbit reports. So many decisions. . . Remember that I am working almost exclusively on The Cabins of Wilsonia this year? (I told about it here.) Good thing I love to draw. At the time of this […]
Various Thoughts from a Drawing Machine.
That’s me. A drawing machine. This California artist has reverted to her roots of drawing cabins in pencil. 1. Yesterday I finished Wilsonia cabin drawing #92 and began #93. I try to always have one going on the table when I quit for the day. Then, when I return to the studio, there is no […]
New Plan for a New Year
2013 brings a new focus to my professional life as a California artist, a “regionalist from Quaintsville”. I’ve told you about the book I am drawing, writing and publishing – The Cabins of Wilsonia. You’ve seen drawings as they are completed and read my groanings as I wonder how I will ever finish the project. Now, […]