Nicole

My daughter in a playful mood. She's 37 now and still just as fun.

You Gotta Keep Dancin

I saw him in Picadilly Circus with a group that was coincidentally being videoed at the same time.  Check them out here.

Pain

What if God's blessings come through raindrops

And His healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know He's near
 What if trials of this life

Are mercies in disguise

Laura Story

Life

A person's life purpose

Is nothing more than to rediscover,

Through the detours of art,

Or love,

 Or passionate work,

Those one or two images

In the presence of which

His heart first opened.

Albert Camus

Al Dente

One of the personality traits of someone raised in a family where alcoholism ruled is the tendency not to finish projects. My dad often said I had a grasshopper mind. True. My brain is on scan most of the time and I my interests vary greatly. Lately, art has been low on the list and is perhaps the reason why I haven't posted much over the last months. The drawing has been on my board for quite a while. I've added a line here and there when the mood grabbed but now am done with it. If you want, I could say that it's state is to represent the reality of relationship. We communicate with someone's face. What we feel is expressed by our visage. We generally remember a person's face before any other characteristic about them. So I have drawn with detail all that is important about the people.

Artistic intellectualism. Bleah. It's just unfinished.
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On Love

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Love is not affectionate feeling,

But a steady wish for

The loved person's ultimate good,

As far as it can be obtained.

C S Lewis

Another Drawing

I couldn't think of a title for this, hence it's name. This needs a little more work, but I'm tired of it and need to move on. It was really an exercise to get more familliar with colored pencils.

The fellow sitting was in a wheel chair and visiting the older gentleman.  They looked as though they were going on an outing. Once again, it's better in the real.

The Doors

Regrets

Another stranger. He looks like he might have just been dumped by a girl friend.

Mandy

Susan and I met her in a London pub near the Globe theater while she was waiting for the next performance to start. I took her photo thinking she didn't notice but obviously did. I asked if I could get her to pose with a stare out the window but all were stiff and unnatural looking. I based my Improvisational drawing on one of those poses. We conversed a while and found out she worked as an engineer in the US and designed parts for atomic bombs. Smart gal.