The last few weeks have been filled with deadlines! I'm not keeping up over here because there are many "t's" and "i's." Today I sat down and made a list of things that I've been thinking of blogging about and then took some photos.
These are some quick sketches from my next deadline. I love loose sketching. Just a pencil and cheap sketchbook. On Friday, I'll be reviewing a book about sketching.
(My brain works faster than the pencil sometimes.)
So hopefully, I'll keep up with blogging a bit better. Or handing stress better? Or making better decisions and choices about how my time is being spent. In the meantime, while I wait to become a more perfect version of myself, I'm just going to reach for my pencil.
You are so honest and fun. Love that. Also love how you express "getting over yourself". Having a sense of humor is a great gift in the midst of stress, self imposed and thrust upon. Love your art.
Posted by: cynthia | 05/06/2015 at 11:31 AM
Definitely go with the French knots . . . and I thnk I'll go and make some marks and wait for the more perfect version of myself to turn up as well . . . although I think we're probably the best versions of ourselves available Diana so we could be waiting quite a while.
Posted by: Wendy @ the Late Start Studio | 05/06/2015 at 05:03 PM
great idea! why do we hesitate when it comes to drawing?
Posted by: lyle baxter | 05/07/2015 at 07:05 AM
I think because it leaves a mark. If we sing badly, it floats away and we don’t watch ourselves dance. That’s what I think anyway.
Posted by: Diana Trout | 05/07/2015 at 09:26 AM
Exactly. I think this is as good as it gets in terms of the human experience and frankly, I already think pretty highly of myself - lol
Posted by: Diana Trout | 05/07/2015 at 09:38 AM
Thanks Cynthia, for everything you said. A sense of humor does help. I saw that book the other day, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, and the truth therein suddenly struck me. That helps ! and so does your comment.
Posted by: Diana Trout | 05/07/2015 at 09:40 AM
You may be right about leaving a mark - very intimidating sometimes and yet simplicity itself - to make marks on paper!
Posted by: Mary H | 05/07/2015 at 12:44 PM