Post #17 the five best

Of course, i am in the studio these days - always good - and drawing has been particularly on my mind. I asked myself what makes a drawing successful to me? and usually, its the quality of line. I decided to take a long hard look around the studio, identify my five favorite lines, and from now on, to use only those 5 best lines in my drawings.

so why not apply this concept, and more appropriately i may add, to our brain?

I ask you - imagine if you were only allowed to have 5 thoughts in your head at a time - what would those five thought be? would you waste one of them on "I can't believe that guy cut me off!" or would you rather have one of your five be "Love surrounds me" or "My body is a good healthy body"

Now the exercise, and it really is exercise because the brain is a muscle that can be trained -

is to only allow yourself 5 thoughts into your brain. So choose your five, and make them the best.

Only the best!

Post #16 hmm....not much to say

so its a nice, long, not so hot summer and like many of you, I am enjoying a more leisurely way of life these days. Fairly relaxed in general, with not too much of an agenda.

I am in the studio very regularly, and am working on some paintings. However, I thought I would use this summer as an opportunity to explore something new and different for me - a new series of drawings.

So here I am, working on these drawings, which in and of themselves will be complete works of art - and guess what? I am not so sure what's going on with them. They may have potential, or they may just be total crap. The most important thing is i have decided to give myself time to just play around, no agenda, no goal, and see what happens. To step outside of my own comfort zone, and to let my studio time just be as it is, without it necessarily being result oriented.

Of course I am going to ask you to apply this same principle to your life. Imagine approaching your life without an agenda, without a destination, imagine allowing your life to take its own shape - be it better, worse, whatever. No judgement on whatever it may be.

What i am hoping both for life and the art, is that through time and letting things develop as they should, what i need to know will rise to the surface and it will be this that i catch in my little net and examine a bit more closely.

happy summer!

sunbock

swimming

half iced tea/half lemonade

fun adventures

all good stuff