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Shelved
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I shelved the last sketchbook of 2013 before the New Year hit and here are the drawings that capped off that trooper of a book that I battered and beat over the winter. Its raggedy self can rest all taped up and patched together up on that comfy shelf in the...

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Final Stretch
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Only eight blank pages left in this fall sketchbook and when you get that close it’s like a marathon runner seeing the finish line. All you want to do at that point is draw everything in sight and every single thought that pops into your skull. You can taste the end and the beginning and it feels like if you don’t finish it fast...

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Meditation Sketches
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Recently I’ve started drawing right after meditating. I’m just getting back into it and always enjoyed where I was, or wasn’t, during meditation. The state that I would carry out of it was pretty rad too. Wanting to see what would come from that, and also to see if I could sustain that feeling longer, I took it to my sketchbook when I would finish....

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New Year, New Sketchbook, New Sketches
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With a new year brings a new sketchbook and new sketches. Finding myself a sketchbook is a painstaking process. Saying that I’m picky is an absurd understatement. Searching for a book with paper that has tooth and character, that has a soft cover but is strongly bound is harder to find than you would think. I couldn’t care less what the cover looks like...

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I am an inconvenient person.
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Despite being raised on catholic guilt, a year of all girls episcopal school, and four years at the straightest job known to man I have managed to tenaciously cling to my authenticity. There will always be people pushing you to be what is most convenient for their needs and goals. It’s one of the greatest challenges to know yourself and to stay on the...

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MaybeEmily
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I stopped by maybemily’s studio last night even though my brain was fried from staying up until 5 am drawing & reading the night before. Surprisingly, I was awake but useless for making conversation so we enjoyed working congenially side by side & listened to a thrilling discovery channel special about the earth’s core. Very Dramitic! Seriously, they somehow made the earth’s core into...

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Close At Hand
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Caley is usually pretty close by, so this week when I have nothing better to do with my hands he gets a quick sketch done of him. They usually look more like whatever else is on my mind than his face. Piles of Caley drawings are emerging and I can’t tell if this is a good or a bad habit yet. I had a...

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Margaret In The Mail
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Going through some old sketchbooks I came across a page that had a drawing of Caley’s Mom that I started one afternoon a few years ago when we were visiting Indiana. Deciding to finish it was easy. Margaret Lents is a gem of a lady & who wouldn’t love to unexpectedly get their portrait sent to them in the mail? I know I’d freak...

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Another “Shock & Awe” Monday
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Sometimes the workweek jumps out and smacks you silly, you know? Well, when I get home from “shock & awe” Monday I usually need some good old fashioned sketch therapy so that I can sink back into my own...

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In the light
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Here’s a little watercolor self portrait of myself in the sunlight. I love white empty spaces in a piece. Even in dinky little portraits. In fact, white is my favorite color and I’ll come to blows with anybody that tries to say it isn’t a color. Bring it on. It’s my favorite for it’s potential. It may be a little traditional of me but...

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Rumi
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Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi – 13th Century Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any...

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Sleep
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I guarantee that the vast majority of sketchbooks have an inordinate amount of drawings of sleeping people. It’s hands down the best way to draw people because you never have to ask them to hold still. The tricky part is asking them to let you draw them while they sleep. Maybe I tend to choose the more awkward...

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Figure Study from Stone
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I sketched this boy from a stone sculpture & fell for how he stood out with his average adolescent slump when all around the room were the typical soaring romantic figures that were sculpted during the same period. This pose holds all of the “in between” time during youth and there is alot of it. I think I spent the majority of my own adolescence...

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