SP #6

In order to obtain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. 

– Miguel de Cervantes

SP #5

An old Chinese proverb says,

 “Do not grasp the brush before the spirit and the thoughts are concentrated.”

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SP #4

Prizes are nice, but the real competition 

is with yesterday's performance.  

 Irwin Greenberg

Keep in mind, these are over 12 years ago.

Boggles the mind ... seems like yesterday! 

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SP #3

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

SP #2

Give me a piece of charcoal

 and I will make you a picture, 

for the whole of painting 

is sacrifice and determination.  

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828)

#1 - Draw SP's every chance you can!

Each of these posts will be a self-portrait drawing. 

I started this to try to get better at drawing - 

do a self-portrait drawing every day, or as often as possible.

My small sketchpad is in the bathroom cabinet and when I have a second or two,

I draw a quick sketch of me. None are longer than 10, or at most 15 minutes (but you know how time flies by when sketching...).

12 years of sp's! I still pick up the sketchpad and draw.

I didn't post anything here in 2015!

If you stumble across this blog, thanks for looking!

Stone

Stone Age   Brushes sketch

- my sketch reminds me of the stone age -
 I "saw" this image in/on a small stone in our yard
 might make an interesting painting or print ...

The story of the three million-year-old pebble resembling a human face
can be found in many places on the web, but
HERE is a short article about it from Makapansgat, S Africa - with photo.

"The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; 

the information age, to date, 

has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools."

found at Poetry Soup    (unknown source, and I love it!)