There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
- Pablo Picasso
Doug's
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Sketchbook - Crayons
The following drawings have evolved out of an exercise I do with my students, drawing to music. It started when I was teaching art at Coronado High School. The chair of the visual art department, Laura Hill, a phenomenal teacher and person, used crayons with her students. I hadn't used crayons since childhood and thought, what a juvenile medium for high school students. Years later, I had a desire to break away from small detailed [uptight] pen and ink drawings. Toward that end I started using crayons with my students when we would draw to music. I discovered that the waxie crayons have wonderful properties that evoke a loose style with unexpected surprises. I hope you enjoy these a quarter as much as I enjoy creating them.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.- Lester Bangs
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Love, friendship set on fire - David Viscott
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. - Simone Weil
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It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.- Helen Van Wyk
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else.- Tom Stoppard
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And the trouble is,
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If I know what love is,
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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.- Elbert Hubbard
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.- E. J. Phelps
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The first duty of love -- listen.- Paul Tillich
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If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.- Khalil Gibran
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Think of all the bubbles of love we made and,unlike the song, "Big Mistake" by Natalie Imbruglia,think of all the bubbles of love we will make.- Doug to Melissa with love
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Our life is what
- Marcus Aurelius
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May the schwartz be with you!
- Spaceballs
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...I don't want a pickle,
- Arlo Guthrie
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Feelings are everywhere be gentle. - J. Masai |
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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. - unknown |
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength. - Frances de Sales |
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| Drawn while sitting on the deck of our room at the Boon Hotel + Spa in Guerneville, California, just outside of Healdsburg, Calistoga, Sonoma, and Napa. A stones throw from the Russian River, the red woods, and some of the most beautiful country roads we've seen. This small hotel has a wonderful balance between simplicity and geniune hospitality. |
99 dreams I have had.
- Nena - 99 Luftballoons (99 Red Balloons)
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...the truly wise need not blame either themselves or others.- Epictetus |
| There is only one journey. Going inside yourself. - Rainer Maria Rilke |
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The more I know you,
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.- Voltaire |
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The longest journey is the journey inward.- Dag Hammarskjold
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There is a spiritual realm that is available to all who find its many entrances.- James Melvin Washington |
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.- F D Roosevelt |
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.- Pablo Picasso |
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 To see a World in a grain of sand,
- William Blake
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom.- Anais Nin |
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.- John Steinbeck
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To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.- Thich Nhat Hanh, thank you Therese An |
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The seed for your next art work lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.- Art & Fear -Observations On The Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, David Bayles & Ted Orland
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Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.- Peter Drucker |
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Either I will find a way or I will make one.- Sir Po Sidney |
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