I finally returned to the studio today. I started slow by just working in my current sketchbook. I've really missed the daily discipline of drawing since I am finished with the drawing project. I think I will start the practice up again because it kept me so in touch with my hand and how it works on a page. Sounds odd, but that's how I think of it. Many times my hand does things I never thought of. I imagine many artists have this feeling, but I'd love to know if you do. And one more thing. I love this quote I saw on a friend's worktable: Discipline is remembering what you want.
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A beautiful little sketch! I am so rusty with drawing. I can draw incredibly well but my hands would rather just stitch and cut. I'm trying to think of ways to sketch fiber ... here's a successful one http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ABNmRQ9XHN0/TjDNc8kN66I/AAAAAAAAE24/gjJOW4RuS98/s1600/skbk4.jpg from bookhou at home.
"Discipline is remembering what you want. " how nice and meaningful !!! i will write it my sketchbook .. by the way "welcome to your studio " :)
nice to see some drawing happening again. 'bit by bit', I say! yes drawing is so fundamental and I feel so much more connected to my paintings and other practice if it's grounded in drawing. When I just think and dream and vision my brain scatters...but drawing grounds me. gives me direction- even if the drawing is free and imaginative and unplanned...it somehow creates a path through the chaos. Without it my mind just ends up in some kind of muddle.
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