A lovely batch of morning musings. "Harvest Now!" is a T-shirt worthy motto for the times. I think you and Judy can make a bundle on that IP. :) This reminds me, I have salad to pick in the garden...
The pencil bus is my new favorite. Thank you for letting readers inside your creative process, and the book recommendation about lettering. My library doesn't have it but I'm going to search Austin's used bookstores for it. Your posts always make me smile and think. 😁
I’m a big fan of that cinnamon roll snail 🐌 haha! I also want all the food, or sometimes a very specific food in a very specific way. I sway between painfully indecisive and way to focused on one food!
Not to be left behind I love 🐌’s and the spiraling made shows creativity radiates from a center to reach out to enfold the universe. Snail Trails I like to see in a book. The trail winds around objects always searching to find something.
Wow, what a wonderful comment!! Thank you!!! And besides the snails spirals reaching to enfold the universe isn't it amazing how many elements of life utilize spiral shapes, including the Milky Way itself??...🤔
Another terrific post, Sue. I love how your snail is exactly the colour of your English muffin (which over here, yes, we call a 'muffin'!) - and how, of course, he's lying down to draw! 🤣
And we really are kindred spirits, you know - like you, I eat my apple cores! 😁
Thank you so very much for your recent book recommendation for 'Dare to Sketch' by Felix Scheinberger! I gobbled up over half of it in the hour after it was delivered.... I'm trying now to ration myself! I'm looking forward to putting everything into practice.
Thank you for noticing that the snail is muffin colored!!! I had fun trying to make it match!!! I'm delighted that you got a copy of Dare To Sketch and are enjoying it!!! I devoured my copy right away too and then, after reading it. I noticed that all the words were still there on the page!! The book still opens and shuts anytime I want to refer to it!! Amazing what old printed book technology can do!!! I hope your copy is similar!!! And yes, I'm joking with you... but seriously, I've read and reread that book more than a fewl times. It's a wonderful help to us artists and I'm so glad you have one and will use it too!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
I LOVE this line: ". . . creativity is simply intelligence having fun." I particularly appreciate how it doesn't acknowledge the right brain/left brain dichotomy.
Thank you so much for noticing what I left out!!! I'll bet you and I would have such an engaging conversation about the unmentioned dichotomy that we'd run out of coffee.
And thank you, I really do think we can each use our whole brain and have fun via creativity. Creativity is an action of the heart, hand and mind not an end result.
Thank you, Sue, for a delightful morning read. My daughter (and favorite person on earth) is an artist and I have always felt that we are on the same wavelength. Hummmmm, and I think I can hear you too. 😊
Love these quotes, especially since I have been running into the "Art is meaningless and you needn't get paid for it," crowd. What would they do without the beauty of art, though? Keep doing you always--we need your light.
Thank you so much!!!! I will keep going!! That "only efficiency and profits matter" crowd that you spoke of shows up around me too sometimes. My reply is "so what do you do with all your efficiency and your profits: Go to a museum? Go to a concert? Go out to dinner?" Most of the time people people seek out something beautiful, something that was the result created by some people who are willing to slow cook something yummy, or practice music for hours etc so called "inefficient" use of time.
Yes. I get passionate about this topic - why do you ask? 🤣🤣💚💚💚💚💚😘
I love your little characters who do these amazing drawings. Cracks me up! Meanwhile, your advice about loving your creativity without thinking about its purpose (money, people's approval, etc) steers me toward appreciating the small collections of piano pieces I've memorized and the specific ones I enjoy playing just for the fun of it. As I think of adding some little etude to the repertoire, I'll remember this and focus more on playing just for the fun of it. Thank you, Sue.
A lovely batch of morning musings. "Harvest Now!" is a T-shirt worthy motto for the times. I think you and Judy can make a bundle on that IP. :) This reminds me, I have salad to pick in the garden...
Salad!!! Yum!!! Enjoy!!! And thank you so much for your kind comment!!!
I love the commentary and the tour bus. Maybe I should try sketching who would be my blue tour bus😍💙
Lol!!! I'd love to see your sketch!!! And thank you!!!!
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The pencil bus is my new favorite. Thank you for letting readers inside your creative process, and the book recommendation about lettering. My library doesn't have it but I'm going to search Austin's used bookstores for it. Your posts always make me smile and think. 😁
Awww Thank you so much for your comment and most of all for your kindness!!! 💚💚💚💚💚
I’m a big fan of that cinnamon roll snail 🐌 haha! I also want all the food, or sometimes a very specific food in a very specific way. I sway between painfully indecisive and way to focused on one food!
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Not to be left behind I love 🐌’s and the spiraling made shows creativity radiates from a center to reach out to enfold the universe. Snail Trails I like to see in a book. The trail winds around objects always searching to find something.
Wow, what a wonderful comment!! Thank you!!! And besides the snails spirals reaching to enfold the universe isn't it amazing how many elements of life utilize spiral shapes, including the Milky Way itself??...🤔
Another terrific post, Sue. I love how your snail is exactly the colour of your English muffin (which over here, yes, we call a 'muffin'!) - and how, of course, he's lying down to draw! 🤣
And we really are kindred spirits, you know - like you, I eat my apple cores! 😁
Thank you so very much for your recent book recommendation for 'Dare to Sketch' by Felix Scheinberger! I gobbled up over half of it in the hour after it was delivered.... I'm trying now to ration myself! I'm looking forward to putting everything into practice.
Thank you for noticing that the snail is muffin colored!!! I had fun trying to make it match!!! I'm delighted that you got a copy of Dare To Sketch and are enjoying it!!! I devoured my copy right away too and then, after reading it. I noticed that all the words were still there on the page!! The book still opens and shuts anytime I want to refer to it!! Amazing what old printed book technology can do!!! I hope your copy is similar!!! And yes, I'm joking with you... but seriously, I've read and reread that book more than a fewl times. It's a wonderful help to us artists and I'm so glad you have one and will use it too!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
It's a fantastic book - I've loved every page so far. Such great inspiration - I suspect that the words in my copy will be wearing out, too! 🙌
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Love the quotes, so inspiring and the drawings you assign to each quote. Thank you!
Love all the flower paintings!
I'm glad to hear that!! I'm enjoying making them!! 💚💚💚💚💚
Ayano’s book is fantastic. I love my little yellow Lamy Safari!
Yes!!! I totally agree!!!💚💚💚 And thanks for your comment!!
Hey, creativity = intelligence having fun = sweet.
You know what…when you had the English muffins for breakfast you kind of drew their shape? No?
And, I was very impressed by your neat segmentation of your apple.
A lovely, and very full, post to read and look at.
Lol!!! Thank you so much for noticing!!! Yes, the round muffins led to.... 🤣
Seriously, thanks for noticing the nuances!!! 💚💚
I LOVE this line: ". . . creativity is simply intelligence having fun." I particularly appreciate how it doesn't acknowledge the right brain/left brain dichotomy.
Thank you so much for noticing what I left out!!! I'll bet you and I would have such an engaging conversation about the unmentioned dichotomy that we'd run out of coffee.
And thank you, I really do think we can each use our whole brain and have fun via creativity. Creativity is an action of the heart, hand and mind not an end result.
You're welcome! (And don't get me started on the Myers-Briggs. . . )
Thank you, Sue, for a delightful morning read. My daughter (and favorite person on earth) is an artist and I have always felt that we are on the same wavelength. Hummmmm, and I think I can hear you too. 😊
Yippee!!! Humming on the same wavelengths together is such fun when that happens!!! 💚💚💚 And you're welcome! Thanks for reading!!
All those lovely contrasty contradictions; don't they just fill a day perfectly? ☺️
They do!!!! 💚💚💚
Love these quotes, especially since I have been running into the "Art is meaningless and you needn't get paid for it," crowd. What would they do without the beauty of art, though? Keep doing you always--we need your light.
Thank you so much!!!! I will keep going!! That "only efficiency and profits matter" crowd that you spoke of shows up around me too sometimes. My reply is "so what do you do with all your efficiency and your profits: Go to a museum? Go to a concert? Go out to dinner?" Most of the time people people seek out something beautiful, something that was the result created by some people who are willing to slow cook something yummy, or practice music for hours etc so called "inefficient" use of time.
Yes. I get passionate about this topic - why do you ask? 🤣🤣💚💚💚💚💚😘
Oh, thank you so much for your kindness!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚
I love your little characters who do these amazing drawings. Cracks me up! Meanwhile, your advice about loving your creativity without thinking about its purpose (money, people's approval, etc) steers me toward appreciating the small collections of piano pieces I've memorized and the specific ones I enjoy playing just for the fun of it. As I think of adding some little etude to the repertoire, I'll remember this and focus more on playing just for the fun of it. Thank you, Sue.