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Sketchiness: The First and Kindred Good

Epicurus said: “Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting-point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we come back.”    Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: art, draw, drawing, epicurus, ink, nude, picture, pleasure, smoking

“The only way I…

“The only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live.” HST Today’s reading comes from Hunter S. Thompson, The … Continue reading →

Michelangelo’s David

  One of the greatest works of art of all time. I never got to see it, but there’s a replica on a hill in Toscana which I have seen (and sketched). Did you know: It took three years to … Continue reading →

Sketchiness: Sketchbook

page from my sketchbook. Random, ink sketches.Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: art, draw, drawing, ink, photo, photography, sketch

Sketchiness: B

  Biro on a notepadFiled under: Uncategorized Tagged: art, biro, drawing, photo, photograph, sketch, sketchiness

Sketchiness: African Bluewing (Charaxes smaragdalis)

  India Ink on watercolour paperFiled under: Uncategorized Tagged: african_bluewing, art, butterfly, draw, drawing, india_ink, paint, photo, photograph, picture, sketch, sketchiness

RIP Mary Shelly

Some of my friends know that I’m a big Shelly fan (Mary, not Percy although I do admire Ozymandias). Well, children, today is the day she died. Here’s a good celebratory post about her and the birth of Frankenstein. No, … Continue reading →

DFW on the Artistic Mindset

“Take this time to learn to be your own toughest critic and best friend…concentrate on the work, loving it, hating it and making it the best and truest expression of yourself it can be.” -David Foster Wallace quoted in Every … Continue reading →

The Cure for Blue Monday

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Sketchiness: Run DMC

Pencil, paper and time on my hand on a Sunday! 4b and 6b.Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: art, draw, drawing, pencil, sketch, sketchiness