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Days of Light
The white paper between pen lines — if only you were there! — it hums with hidden insects. We play hide and seek with spiders. They hide. We find (not meaning to seek). They dash. We… more →
Aletha Kuschan's Weblog
The only rule is that there are no rules
wrote 6 months ago: 1) There are no rules. There are ways of gaining skills, but no rules. 2) What do you want your dr … more →
Days of Light
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wrote 11 months ago: The white paper between pen lines — if only you were there! — it hums with hidden insect … more →
flowers in boxes
wrote 11 months ago: I was thinking about making a still life using pictures of flowers from a calendar. And I took it a … more →
Dreaming in the daytime
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wrote 1 year ago: In the veiled and imminent dawn you can dream a different kind of dream. In this soft light, inside … more →
Big Foot, the bird
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wrote 1 year ago: When I first began drawing, many years ago, I withered whenever I made a drawing that included big e … more →
Overcoming fears: Spiders!!
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wrote 1 year ago: I used to be afraid of spiders. Or, more precisely, I used to be more afraid of them than I am now. … more →
everything they told me was wrong
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wrote 1 year ago: Everything they told me was wrong, and it’s taken me thirty years to fully appreciate this fac … more →
thinking about
wrote 1 year ago: I have been thinking about thinking, reading about thinking too. Can’t say exactly what I lea … more →
Slow motion
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wrote 1 year ago: I’m learning a valuable lesson: that it’s motion nonetheless even when it’s slow m … more →
Fudge factors
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wrote 1 year ago: In mathematics the fudge factor is “a quantity introduced into a calculation in order to … more →
Into the hills
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wrote 1 year ago: I have wandered the hills and valleys, splashed in the lakes, swum with the fishes, and sung with th … more →
Dipsy Doodling
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wrote 1 year ago: When I’m at a loss for something to do, or distracted from the work at hand, or sometimes when … more →
Telephone Time
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wrote 1 year ago: I have been busy the last few days, and I haven’t had much time for drawing. But while I talk … more →
the just because of it
wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes the point is just to be living. Doing work, having a schedule, being busy, being responsi … more →
Looking backwards, going forward
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wrote 1 year ago: I have been thinking a lot about beginnings — thinking back to the time when my desire to pain … more →
The sparest lines
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wrote 1 year ago: The fundamental impulse of drawing is to see a thing and inscribe it in line. I was at the art gall … more →
The Love-letter Writer
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wrote 2 years ago: Life goes on normally now. I was miserable when I loved in silence. Now I work again. I am learni … more →
Fluidity
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wrote 2 years ago: Observations come to you at strangely random moments. My daughter and I were having a late breakfas … more →
The hidden koi pond
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wrote 2 years ago: In a dream a round pond, as round as a coin, sits hidden in the far distance. You walk a long path … more →
