Pretend you’re Jackson Pollock
I found another great online doodle program
at http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
And the best part? No mess to clean-up afterwards.
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The adventure is the journey - not the destination
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
— Ursula Le Guin
Stop and smell the roses. Relax and enjoy the scenery. Savor the experience along the way.
Life is good. All of it.
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Life is a daring adventure
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.
– Helen Keller
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Growth and fear
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Do you doodle or sketch daily?
…Drawing is a no-risk format for exploring ideas, finding our personal symbolism, exaggerating or simplifying those things that become part of our visual language.
- Cheng-Kee Chee
Real versus Digital Doodling
Here is a “flesh and blood” doodle. I made it with paint and markers. I even collaged some strips of paper onto it. Compare to the one I posted previously, which is a digital doodle composed in Photoshop.
I think I am smitten with digital doodling right now because it is new and different. I like fiddling around with different brushes and filters. It feels like I have fewer limitations, but I’m not sure that is true. Then there is the cleanliness factor - no paintbrushes to clean-up after making doodles on the computer. No materials or tools to put away. Ah, that’s nice!
So I am feeling a little guilty about enjoying computer doodling. It feels like cheating.
No doubt if you took away my stash of art materials I’d run after you screaming, “No-o-o-o-o-o!”
Though wouldn’t it be nice to have all that space back in my house? It would be so tidy. Hmmm-m-m-m . . .
Eastern philosophies and quantum physics tell us that nothing is solid, nothing is real. Everything is an illusion anyway.
The jury’s STILL out. STILL.
Digital scribbles
I’m trying to figure out if there is as much pleasure in creating doodles with my computer and Photoshop software, as there is in creating doodles with traditional art materials.
Both methods exercise the brain and put me into “the zone”. That’s good.
The jury is still out.
You know you’ve made it big when . . .
You know you’ve made it big when some gallery blows up your digital photo and hangs it for all to see.
If you haven’t made it big yet, yourself, you can at least pretend.
Stacey put me onto this fun site: www.dumpr.net
You can manipulate photos here all day if you’ve got the time . . .
Secret about a secret
My mother tells me not to pick at the scab. But I just can’t stop myself, you know? Quotes can be puzzling but I keep picking away.
This is another quote along the same lines as the one I shared in my previous post. But this one doesn’t have quite the same effect on my brain. I think I get this one. I think this one even helps me understand the Gustave Flaubert quote a little better. I like the idea of art being a secret about a secret. It is nicer than art being a lie that isn’t as untrue as other lies.
Art and Lies
Sometimes I come across a quote that strikes me as brilliant . . . as long as I don’t think about it too hard. If I start trying to unravel it, though, my brain starts to expand inside my skull and I fear my head might explode.
This is one of those quotes.
