Timothy J. Pruitt's Blog, page 105
May 10, 2022
Sketch Rusty Spotted Cat
This little cat, and I mean little, is interesting to me. It’s 14-19 inches long and 2 to 3.5 pounds, the Rusty Spotted Cat.
May 9, 2022
Sketch Spotted Around The Corner
This sketch was done on the edge of a page in the sketchbook, hence the spotted around the corner.
May 8, 2022
My Son’s Mom
The picture above is perfect in so many ways. I have always been a Momma’s boy, but it’s fascinating to watch how much these two adore each other. There smiles are so big when they look at each other.
Before Nicholas, Mother’s and Father’s Day were days we dreaded and got through. We both loved our parents, but the void in our lives was so loud. Now it’s been replaced by the richness of our son’s laughter, and no one can make him laugh like his Momma.
Happy Mother’s Day to my beautiful wife, and I’m so thankful you are not only our son’s joy, but the one that makes us both smile just walking through the door. We love you so much!!!
Mother’s Day 2022
It is fitting that the Mother’s Day holiday was started, not by a Mom, but a grateful child. Mothers act, not for the recognition they deserve, but because they love their children. I’ve seen so many examples of this through the years.
My Mom has given me so many things that I can’t list them all here. I’ve seen her sacrifice so much of herself for our family. I also saw her love for her own Mom through so many things.
The flower originally associated with Mother’s Day is the white carnation. It is also the flower for those born in January, my Mother’s birthday is January 1. The flower is said to represent unconditional love.
It strikes me that while children may give their Moms carnations, Mothers plant seeds. Enough seeds to grow throughout their children’s lives. Seeds my Mom planted at an early age in my life, are blooming today.
Thank you Mom, not only for the acts of love and sacrifice you’ve shown us, but the seeds you’ve planted. We are blessed with fields of joy because of the seeds if wisdom you planted in our lives. Happy Mother’s Day Mom, I Love You!!!
May 7, 2022
May 6, 2022
Art Unboxed What’s In Your Songbook?
No, i don’t have my genres mixed up, lol. It was the best way to introduce an idea I learned from the musicians in my life. I have no ear for music, a singing voice that might best be compared to a weak fog horn, and the same association with musical ability as I do ancient Etruscan pottery. In spite of all this, I have learned many lessons from those in my life blessed with this gift.
If you ask someone who is musically talented, and who has some experience to sing, they can very quickly be ready. They have practiced enough to be able to, have the experience to draw on, and either a physical or mental songbook to draw from. Artists can apply these same lessons to our art.
Last night, I drew a lion, a tiger, and the tin man from The Wizard Of Oz. While I did draw from reference, I also drew from experience. Each of these I’ve drawn multiple times. Some nights I have a plan in mind for what to draw, but not last night. I ran across an image of a tiger, so I drew it. From then mentally I made the jump to a lion, and then to the tin man. Because I had practiced them previously, it was easy to do so.
As someone in Children’s Ministry I’ve used drawing in many lessons through the years. I’ve been able, sometimes at short notice due to an emergency, to put together a lesson using art as the object lesson. Experience with drawing and with children allowed me to gage what items would work.
You might say I took a few pieces from my artistic songbook and played them. As I’ve watched a number of artists give lessons, often they paint a painting they’ve previously painted. Many times it’s because they are covering a specific subject, such as color harmony, or composition.
As an artist, you not only have the ability to draw, you have skills and experience to draw from. This makes you a better artist, and a better teacher. You have learned something that is shareable with others, that can benefit them. You’ve learned lessons from picking up a pencil, paint brush, or pastel that may help someone else in their artistic journey.
When you are invited to share something artistically with someone, I would suggest you approach it much as a singer or musician would. Think of the pieces, or images you do well. Think of items that others would find interesting. Finally thing of images that will lend themselves to adding benefit to others.
You may find that they begin to pick up the “song and sing along with you”. I’m sure that a young Frank Sinatra, who also painted, heard a number of singers as a young man that we may have forgotten, but he learned something from them. That means that their lesson wasn’t lost, it was passed on, and continues today.
If we as artists can do the same thing, we impart something very special to others. I’ve mentioned it before, but I was affected by things my Great Grandmother, whom I never met, drew. My experience with art, is due enlarge part to her, my Grandmother, my Mother, and Sis Gloria Livingston. I hope one day that someone can say the same about me.
May 5, 2022
iPainting Dick Van Dyke Nonagenarian
I have been a fan of Dick Van Dyke for most of my life. I remember him of course first as Bert in Mary Poppins, then the Dick Van Dyke Show. Later, I was a huge fan of Diagnosis Murder. After that Murder 101, and other projects.
The wonderful thing about him, is he not only did something unique in each phase of life, he kept moving. Today I wanted to share a painting of him as a vibrant Nonagenarian, or someone in their 9th decade. I remember seeing him dance in Mary Poppins Returns, still moving. It’s a reminder never to allow age to stop us.
May 4, 2022
May The Fourth Be With You 2022
May The Fourth Be With You My Fellow Star Wars Fan!
