Pay attention.
Courage
In small ways
Might improve our lives.
This
Is
Not
A
Game.
There’s more information about blackout poetry here.
Courage
writing
Our Problems
Our problems need work.
We need a lifetime to learn
Who we are,
To entertain
And understand
And be willing to fail.
Learning, learning, always learning.
If you’re interested in reading more about the art form that is blackout poetry, here is a link with more info.
Maps
The maps in our heads
Grow
Through
Trial and error.
We look
And we look,
We are not satisfied
Even when it makes sense.
I’m out of practice. It’s been months since my last blog post and years since my last blackout poem. No time like the present to change all that… And if you’re interested in learning more about the art form that is blackout poetry, here is a link with more info.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Drawing
Here are my 17 quote+art images inspired by Danny Gregory’s ‘All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Drawing’ list. The quotes are Danny’s; the art is my own:
Drawing Lessons
Way back in December 2009, I reinvented myself and became an artist. It has taken quite a bit of practice to be able to say that without giggling or feeling self-conscious. Some days I revert to describing myself as a painter or a graphic designer, but the good days find me happy to tell it like it is. I still remember discovering Danny Gregory’s book The Creative License: Giving yourself permission to be the artist you truly are ~ I bought a journal and a nice black ink pen and have never looked back. Well, obviously I’m looking back now… but you know what I mean.
A DECADE has now passed since that first illustrated journal and so I’ve decided to put together some quote+art images inspired by the rather good ‘All I Really Need to Know I Learned From Drawing’ list written by Danny Gregory. ✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼
P.S. The background image (minus Danny’s quote) is from this student project (2011).
Small Reminders
“…it is part of the artist’s function to pay sudden attention to… the details the world is constantly offering us, and then, if adequately arrested by them, to give them a singular existence, transforming them without falsifying them to reveal the capacity that all ordinary things have to become suddenly remarkable when picked out by human vision.” Margaret Mahy
Anna Cull ~ Art & Music 