Monday, September 29, 2014

Sketching and the 3Rs

Timbah wants up
Acrylic and black marker on
bond paper
8 x 10 inches
Barbara Muir © 2014
I'm working on a portrait that is very slowly
coming together.  Wait!  I keep saying to myself.
Don't worry.  But meanwhile what do I put on
my blog?  Many of my blog friends do challenges.
This seems to be productive.  I volunteered for
a challenge to meditate every day, and am still
going four months after that began.  So tonight
I mused about challenging myself to draw every
day.  I can't make that binding because I am really
busy right now -- but I thought tonight I'd draw on
a piece of paper I'd used as a palette, and let the
awesome blue that was trying out to be a sky set
the tone.

The 3Rs?  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.  So I reduced my
challenge  (just tonight for sure ;-) I reused a piece of
paper used as a palette.  And I will eventually recycle
that too.  How about you?  What challenges can you
accept, and which ones do you have to refuse?

Have a loving-the-challenges-you-accept day.
P.S.  Timbah loves my husband Steven's shoulders.
He's a big cat, and one rear leg is a bit weak.
In this picture Steven is both helping Timbah onto
his shoulder and holding him there. 
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6 comments:

  1. Liza HirstSeptember 30, 2014 at 8:29 AM

    Barbara, this is a lovely sketch! Please don't recycle it!
    Keep it for one of your sons - I'm sure one of them would love to have it. Apart from that I'm all for the 3Rs, of course. Take care, love Liza

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  2. Barbara MuirSeptember 30, 2014 at 10:03 PM

    Hi Liza,

    I was recycling the paper I use for a palette. I always feel sad when I put a page with a field of paint on it into the recycling box. So I did recycle it. I drew on it. You are sweet. I will keep it.

    I love your work. Your portrait is stunning.

    XOXOXOXOXO Barbara

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  3. Kim RempelOctober 1, 2014 at 6:58 PM

    Love, love, love this. Great gesture and colour.
    hugs!

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  4. Barbara MuirOctober 2, 2014 at 5:23 AM

    Hi Kim,

    Thanks so much. I read Linny D. Vine's blog yesterday, and she talked about wondering where the red was in a recent painting. Working on
    blue is not my thing, but I just wanted to draw on a painted page. It was fun.

    XOXOXOXOXO Barbara

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  5. Mary Sheehan WinnOctober 21, 2014 at 7:28 AM

    if you hadn't mentioned the recycled palette I'd never have guessed.
    My first thought was how wonderfully composed and how I love the abstract quality.
    You also LANDED the gesture of holding the heavy cat with a gimpy leg on the shoulder. What cat person doesn't know this tenuous position!!
    Home run. Frame it!

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  6. Barbara MuirOctober 21, 2014 at 7:59 PM

    Hi Mary,

    I may well do it. It is one a piece of paper I use for a palette, but other people use that paper for finished drawings, so there you go.

    Thanks you. I'm glad you like it. Timbah is notorious for leaping on my husband's shoulders.

    XOXOXOXOXOXO Barbara

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