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Quick sketch exercises in pen and ink practicing skin tones and applying oil pastel with solvent washes.
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Ask the Universal Spirit for clarity and vision on your journey, and let go.
Ask the Universal Spirit for understanding and compassion on your journey, and let go.
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Breath in gratitude.
Breath out blessings.
Radiate humble joy as kindness, love, creativity and peace gently rains.
Ask the Universal Spirit for clarity and vision on your journey, and let go.
Ask the Universal Spirit for understanding and compassion on your journey, and let go.
Ask the Universal Spirit for abundance and creativity on your journey, and let go.
Breath in gratitude.
Breath out blessings.
Radiate humble joy as kindness, love, creativity and peace gently rains.
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Imagination requires sustained encounters with uncertainty.
- Shaun McNiff (Trust the Process)
- Shaun McNiff (Trust the Process)
To understand the whole, it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.
- Ken Wilber
- Ken Wilber
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
- Paul Valere
- Paul Valere
"Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful."
- A.R. Ammons
- A.R. Ammons
"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."
- Marc Chagall
- Marc Chagall
Honor the error as a hidden intention.
Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt,
Oblique Strategies
Inspiration:
BookShelf:
- Roberts, Ian (2007); Mastering Compositon:Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting
- Franck, Frederick, (1973) The Zen of Seeing
- Franck, Frederick (1993) Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing
- Leland, Nita (2008); Confident Color: An Artists Guide to Harmony, Contrast, and Unity
- McDaniel, Richard (2005); On Location - Plein Air Painting in Pastels
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