Bits and Clips for April 2023
I hope you find something here that inspires, educates, motivates, reassures, or interests you:
Month: April 2023
International Pastel Show Spring 2023
This show has very little pure abstraction in it, but I included the pieces I liked best for you to see in this post.
Blind Contour vs Peek Contour Drawing (Sketchbook Ideas #7)
To continue on our sketchbook series, let’s look at doing contour drawings. Above you can see an example of a blind contour drawing, where it is against the rules to look at your paper or lift your pencil. You keep your eyes fully on the object you are drawing– here it was leaves from our … Read more
Our Youngest Receives the “TA of the Year” Award
We are proud her hard work and of the way she has comported herself. We are also delighted her excellence has been so tangibly recognized!
Choosing Joy with Crabapple Photos
How exalting it is to meet the joy of life with appreciation and humble thankfulness.
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water (Book Review)
A reporter on the war in Afghanistan goes undercover in 2016 to accompany his Afghan friend and interpreter on his journey out as a refugee.
Are You Perceiving Truth? (Quote by Hermann Hering)
Suppose yourself looking through blue glass at a white horse…
Pondering Magnolia Shapes (New Poem by Polly Castor with Photos)
I yearn to amplify and articulate them…
Spring Growth (New Abstract Mixed Media Collage)
I hope you too are growing this spring, like a watered garden unfolding and stretching in the sun!
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Book Review)
I found this excellently written short novel original, elegant, and charming.
How to Overcome Regret
I have been hugely benefited by loosening the clutch of regret through forgiveness, reframing, and finding gratitude where I could. But more than anything, realizing I can reach for my high ideals in how I behave right now, and respond in each present moment with the greatest integrity, kindness, and initiative, helps me to avoid regret in the future.
Recent Pages in my Bible Lesson Journal
These are the ideas that struck me as needing to be contemplated more.
The Music We Are (Poem by Rumi with Daffodil Photos)
Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
Recent Black and White Photos
Value and composition are both so important, I look for them everywhere, and lack and white photography is a great way to study and consider them.