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Dear Friends
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Talking with a young artist that visited my studio on Sunday,
I found
myself giving advice that I often fail to practice. "Drawing
is so important
to an artist", I told him. "Even if you paint abstractly,
I feel it is important
to develop good drawing skills. It's all about hand - eye coordination
and
getting notes and ideas down on paper", I continued. Whether
you doodle,
sketch or draw, it is an important skill and ideally should be
exercised daily."
Since I do believe in practicing what you preach, I have vowed
that for the
rest of the summer; at least until Labor Day; to draw, doodle
or sketch each
day. I guess we'll see just how disciplined I really am!
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Today, here are
some thoughts on discipline:
"It is one
thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
(Mogul de Servants)
"You don't
get into the mood to create; it's discipline." (Twyla Tharp)
"Drawing
and painting are self disciplined activities that you have to
learn
by yourself." (Romare Bearden)
"It is essential...
that discipline should not be practiced like a rule
imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an
expression of one's own will; that it is felt as pleasant, and
that one
slowly accustoms oneself to a kind of behavior which one would
eventually miss, if one stopped practicing it." (Erich Fromm)
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Today's image
is a sketch from my sketchbook from Alaska.
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