Because it is so small one need not be concerned too much about how to fill the page. Almost any mark will appear as important.
Today I got "brave" and used ink-cartridge pen and colored pencil on opposing pages. If blue smears it will smear onto blue. Blue Happens.
I drew the moving NOW bear first. Then the image of the Then bear came into head. Knew it had to be facing to the left. No, I don't know WHY. I usually leave the Why to the universe.
Then the brain said: Put the blue pencil THROUGH the Then but UNDER the NOW. Again, a mystery that some way made sense.
Seeing the pages here put up almost instantly also makes me wonder why sometimes drawing, writing, blogging can be done so quickly and smoothly and why other times it is simply impossible (or feels so). Perhaps it is the NIKE "Just Do It" slogan in play. I didn't plan to draw or write or blog this morning. Just did it. Must re-learn the triggering of the Simply Doing.
Back in thirty-mile-day bicycling days there was no debate. Life just held time and energy for six miles in the morning and twenty-four miles at night. The rare times when I'd argue with myself the biking brain said "Just pedal to the top of Gurney Hill and decide from there." After that minute or two of hard pedaling the mind went away and the legs took over.
Being in The Moment and There is Only Now are points I often forget to remember. Picking up a pen or putting fingers to keyboard and just drawing or typing, well, yes, it can be done. Daring to live with the outcome. Doing it again. And again. Until there is no choice Until it's part of life.
Dancing? Um, no, not that brave yet!
What do YOU want to do? Yup. Do it.
Happy Friday the Thirteenth!
Good memories of Blackie the Purringest Cat.
(Opening reception of group art exhibition at River Falls Wis. Public Library Gallery - Sunday, March 15. 2-4 PM. Show is up from March 15 through April 19.)
Fare-thee-well,
Sue
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