Bears Den Study
oil on linen 9" x 12"
March Morning at Bears Den
oil on linen 12" x 16"
I've been kicking around an idea for a book lately - a book about how learning to draw could save our entire nation. No sense in spending ones time on small ideas. Anyway, it came to mind when considering how we might get things started in a better direction for us all - as a former teacher of 32 years, these things do occupy my mind from time to time - and I figured we need folks today to be creative, hard working, and willing to take risks and explore. When one learns to draw and really see it involves abandoning preconceived notions, remaining humble and open, and completely committing to the process of exploration while ignoring what anyone thinks the result should or should not be. Just so happens this style of thinking and doing and even living are also found in the best of our science research, mathematics, and medicine. It even works for all the art forms and especially in education of our children! So, if everyone was taught how to truly draw and see and joyfully engage the task while embracing chaos and accepting failure as opportunity - WOW, it just might straighten out this old world.
Of course, it also would lead some folks to make a bunch of paintings of rocks and trees and stuff.
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