TheBrains and TheBoss

  Ever notice that as soon as you set yourself some kind of goal you immediately start thinking of other things you'd like to do? Well. Maybe if you are not an ENFP ( Look! a bird! 🐦) you don't have this problem. Alas I am . I have this goal of filling up my sketchbook and every time I sit down to do something I freeze. Even though I've confronted  the Curse of the Masterpiece, I haven't developed the armor that deflects it.  Last weekend I decided to just play with the pencil, practicing noses - and face proportions. I still tend to make the space between eye and nose tip too long, giving faces a Mannerist look (long, narrow faces and limbs) It happened again this time, but not to such an extent I couldn't do something with this sketch. I've been slightly obsessed with paper dolls lately and have found that I love using magazine paper to make the doll clothes. I love the shiny paper. I love using photographs to create a fabric look. I really love to cut out p...

  Thanks to Karen Abend and her wonderful Sketchbook Revival 2022 I spent 5+ wonderful weeks this past spring working through 31 free video workshops from a clutch of amazing artists. The program fell at an inconvenient time for me as my house was torn apart for a complete interior paint job and while I fought off 5 weeks of allergy induced bronchitis. Next year I'll know better and block out 2 weeks of sacred time when not even TheGrandchildren will be allowed to interrupt my art days. Well, maybe one day in March – a birthday.  If you want to be part of next year's Sketchbook Revival contact Karen via her website. In fact, it looks like you can watch a tiny video about Sketchbook Revival 2021 here - with a form for getting on her mailing list.  The workshops were so valuable, helping me break a couple of Art Curses. There was the curse of the Precious Notebook . I own dozens of these – both art journals and written word journals, all pristine. They're the ones th...