This sketch was done with the help of a youtube tutorial on sketching trees and mist I am not happy with most of it but do notice improvements are happening. This is also the first time I practiced drawing with and eraser. I do like how how the pathway came out after I did the shading. I also like the little grass wisps I practiced on the left slope.
I am trying (and failing) to work at my sketching for at least twenty minutes each day. While I have not yet mastered the discipline of daily sketching I am doing more art work now than I have ever done. This sketch is one of my first attempts to portray moving water. Obviously I have work to do.
Yesterday was our monthly C.cada ( one of the local artist communities I am involved in) meeting. We met remotely of course by Zoom. It was our first attempt at it and we managed pretty well with the first time tech use. We had a devotion at 9 like usual and an emotion check-in. Then we all went off for four hours to do our work. At 1 P.M. we gathered back together to show everyone what we had done.
I shared a poem I had written entitled, “Moving A Season” . You can check it out by clicking on that link.
My sister shared a drawing she had done along with a short written prose poem. Isaiah Lewiston shared a song he had begun to write. Bella Lewiston shared two paintings she had finished over the last six weeks and another one she started. Betty Knowlton shared some of the bead paintings she had been working on and Ken Knowlton shared two graphic pieces and a photograph he had been working on.
I did not share any of the sketches I had been working on so over the next several posts I will share those.
Here is the first one. It is a cartoon cat creation I was experimenting with.
This show is gripping. Please consider having Brenda in to your church
When last we spoke, one of the things I told you was that Brenda was put on sabbatical after her conferences in August. Her leadership told her she needed to take off through the end of October. I was relieved because she was emotionally and spiritually exhausted (and anyone who has ever done the work of full time ministry knows how difficult spiritual exhaustion can be).
During her time away from the itineration trail Brenda sought spiritual guidance and spent a lot of time praying. The Lord led her during that time to write a one woman show based on the life of Corrie TenBoom one of the 20th century’s great heroes of the faith. Corrie Tenboom’s name rises to the level of Graham, Bon Hoeffer, Elliot and Mother Theresa.
That show is almost ready to go up. The first production will be on January 10th. I have sat through…
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I call this “The Seeds Of Yesterday”
Me writing
I have five coffee cups on my desk. I think that is enough. I am stocked up with plenty of Dark Magic (my favorite coffee blend).
I am ready to get back to the task of writing.
These last three years I have managed to keep the door to the writing world opened…just. This year though, God has shifted some things for me as NaNoWriMo and my birthday month begin. So I am moving that door on its rusty hinges until it stands wide for me.
HERE WE GO!
I have decided that as part of my artistic reboot, it is time for me to get back into some of the blogging challenges I used to do. It is time to rebuild some community that the work of ministry has kept me away from.
So here I am joining the COLOR YOUR WORLD CHALLENGE BY TOURMALINE.
This week’s challenge regards the color apricot:
Brenda and I are working through a book geared to reboot us as artist’s. We are writing extensively about it over at our other blog Notes From the Vicarage.
But I did want to share a few quotes from the book here:
“Every Child is an artist. The trick is remaining one as a an adult.” Pablo PIcasso
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