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"When life gives you lemons, draw them". (Nikki)

"...the painting has a life of its own. My mission is to bring forth this life". (Jackson Pollock)

"Trust your intuition, it's just like goin' fishin'; you cast your line 'til you get a bite." (Paul Simon)

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A Heart Filled to the Brim

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Above: finished final details yesterday. Started Aug.7th: A Heart Filled to the Brim, 36 x 48 x 2 inches, Water soluble graphite, acrylics on canvas. On exhibit along with Polypore Fungi February through May at the Oxide Gallery, Denton, Texas

An excerpt from the song, I Don’t Believe by Paul Simon on the CD, Surprise:

I don’t believe a heart can be filled to the brim

then vanish like mist as though life were a whim.

Maybe the heart is part of the mist

And that’s all that there is and could ever exist.

A portrait of Alzheimer’s honoring my Grandmother, my Mother-in-law (whose portrait this is, and whose 80th birthday is in two days), and now recently my own Mother who is in the earliest stages; and with empathy for all those afflicted, including the families dealing with the awful emotional reverberations caused by this disease.

Here are a few websites providing information about Alzheimer’s Disease

http://www.alz.org/index.asp

http://www.alzheimersrxtreatment.com/learnaboutalz.html

http://www.alzheimers.org/

Portraits

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Josee, a portrait of my neice. Gift, work in progress, 11 x 14 inches Graphite on paper.

Drawing portraits is like brain surgery - one millimeter off, more or less, in any direction makes a difference.

Growing Up and Looking Back

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Lucas at the Museum, 11 x 14 Pencil and eraser on paper, originally posted March 23, 2007 - today notified as part of the exhibition Growing Up and Looking Back – Reflecting on Childhood, Parenting, and Home at Gallery RFD in Swainsboro, GA October 12th – November 3rd, 2007.

Brittany

Friday, June 8th, 2007

11 x 14 pencil, eraser on paper

Adam

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

11 x 14 pencil and eraser on paper

Post-dated entry: Adam ,Merit Award winner, cash prize at the VAST 19th Annual Juried Exhibition held in Denton, Texas July 29 – August 23, 2007

Adrian

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Adrian - The Muddy Field - 11 x 14 inches pencil, eraser on paper, white mat and white wood frame 22 x 26 inches total size.

Alexander

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Thanks to all of you for your responses to the recent group of pencil portraits. There are things children do that we can’t help but love them for, either because you’ve had children or you were one. Except cats, most of them prefer adults.

The portraits are also practise using tones and values, something that needs more attention as a foundation to color when I return to it.