Doug's
Partial
Sketchbook,
The Beginning
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somebody's daydream. Larry Niven |
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Jack London (1876-1916) at Jack London Square in Oakland. The inscription at the base of the sculpture reads: I would rather be ashes than dust! |
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But the only way of discovering the Arthur C. Clarke |
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Dream as if Live as if James Dean |
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without wings, do nothing to prevent their growing. Chanel
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it. |
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we perform for the benefit of others until we learn to perform for the sheer pleasure of the performance.
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depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain |
![]() Composite of three sketches: Prado Mask, Rosa, and Mrs. Milbank |
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Joseph Campbell |
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9 23 00 Buddy goes home. Olympic gold in the air. Life ebbs and flows. Breath, How many times a day do we breathe? How many times a day does our heart
beat? Every breath. Every heartbeat. As precious as Olympic gold. Lew came home and both are doing fine. On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 11:25am, Lew died. See a tribute to his life, his partner, and his legacy. |
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21 january 2003, tuesday little did we know tomorrow he went to icu 23 january 2003, thursday ended after 93+ thank you does not love
lives
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There is a spiritual
realm James Melvin Washington |
Not everything that counts Albert Einstein Drawn from a photograph by See: http://www.writedesignonline.com/eyemindcandy/vishniac.htm |
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Though a living cannot be made at art, art makes life worth living. It makes living, living. It makes starving, living. It makes worry, it makes trouble, it makes a life that would be barren of everything -- living. It brings life to life. John Sloan in Gist of Art, 1939
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Last Expression: This program explores the roles, functions, meanings and making of art in the Nazi concentration camps of World War II, focusing on the notorious site of the killing center and concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. |
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his portals of discovery. James Joyce |
Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities. Peter Drucker |
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![]() taken from Jose Roy's poster, "La Lanterne de Bruant", ca. 1900 |
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drawn while listening to "Alice's Restaurant", by Arlo Guthrie |
inspired by tribal masks and a
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Drawing of the painting, |
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![]() Sketch of student in the audience while listening to Quincy Troupe at Nazerene College, Point Loma, CA. Read three poems by |
![]() Inspired by a College Board poster while conducting a WASC accreditation visit. |
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The start of a 60s retro-pattern series prompted by an
Alexander Calder sculpture at the Museum of Art outdoor
cafe, San Diego, and a photograph in the MOPA |
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earth and mark the beginning of the Rocky Mountains to the west of Boulder, Colorado. I hiked, climbed, and photographed much of the area around Boulder while attending CU. |
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sandollars in the sky...?
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![]() This, and the series above, are a part of a new regimen: taking my sketchbook for a beach walk. |
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