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Variety
I have a hard time committing to any activity for an extended period of time. I have a long list of “tried and abandoned” pursuits, including the piano, the harmonica, Spanish, speed reading, and...
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San Francisco Ferry Building
One of my favorite blogs is Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org), where correspondents from around the world post their sketches. The first rule of the Urban Sketchers manifesto is, “We draw on...
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Sketchbook Journal
I sketch because I enjoy doing it, but I also draw because it helps my memory. Sometimes the past feels like a blur. When my kids were infants, I bought them each a baseball glove. Now they are...
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The Hiatus – 30 Days With An Empty Cup
A common expression in the martial arts is, “Empty your cup.” The phrase is an analogy for knowledge and learning. Those who think they know everything have a full cup. If you try to teach these...
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Planes, Trains, and An Automobile – Sketches From the Road
I have been traveling a lot this year, so I have been filling my pocket sketchbook with scenes from the road. Below are some sketches from airplanes, the BART train, and a moving car. I get...
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Travel Sketches – Hawaii
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page.” - Saint Augustine For the kids’ spring break, we joined my in-laws in Hawaii. It’s hard not to have a wonderful time in Hawaii....
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Uncle Jimmy
Last weekend, my Uncle Jimmy visited us. He has lived in Paris for almost thirty years, so it’s not often we get to see him. Last year, we unknowingly scheduled vacations to Vancouver on the same...
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It’s Time To Smell (and Draw) the Roses
“What a lovely thing a rose is!…Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary...
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“Step to the rhythm step, step to the ride…”
A few events in the last month, including the first anniversary of MCA’s passing, the naming of Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn, and my brother’s “close, but not quite” encounter with Mike D, prompted me...
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Why I Drew a Can of Campbell’s Soup
In her book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards writes, “For centuries, copying masterworks was recommended as an aid to learning to draw. “Copying forces one to slow down and...
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What Happens When You Leave Wall Street?
You pack up your Upper West Side apartment. You drive across the country. You put all of your earthly belongings in storage. You and your family take a year to travel around the world. And you...
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Discovering at the Discovery Museum
A day out with my youngest at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Filed under: Family, Life, Sketches
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Pen & Ink
I belong to a Facebook group called Sketching Workshop, where 150 sketchers from around the world post sketches and provide comments and critiques on each other’s work. The purpose of the group is to...
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Conference Call Sketches
My sister-in-law recently emailed me this Wall Street Journal article about Andy Silton, a retired money manager, who had a habit of drawing during meetings. During his 30 years in asset management,...
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Artists Anonymous
No. Artists Anonymous is not a rehab group for people who are overly preoccupied with drawing and painting. Artists Anonymous, or “AA”, is a collective of artists based in Berlin and Liverpool, who...
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Portrait Practice
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” – Stephen King As you can tell...
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Mentors
I recently read a blog post by Seth Godin about mentorship. He wrote, “the primary driver of mentor benefit has nothing to do with the mentor herself, nothing beyond the feeling of obligation the...
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Why I Sketch For 30 Minutes Every Morning
“We have failed to recognize our great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing.” – Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805) In high school, my art teacher advised...
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Happy Canada Day
“…It wasn’t long before one, then another of the little shell brothers, timidly emerged. Some of them immediately scurried back when they saw the immensity of the sea and the sky and the overwhelming...
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