Category: learnings

A life full of color


Some lifetimes ago, a sixteen year old version of me failed to get the place in art school that she'd pinned all her early hopes to. Dismissed by the grown ups who'd repeatedly explained: 'being an artist isn't realistic' led to years floating adrift from my calling. (They were wrong. And this isn't what I do, I've come to realise, it's what I am)

100 drawings: the closing pages.


“I try to create fantastic things, magical things, things like in a dream. The world needs more fantasy." ~ Salvador Dali.

100 drawings: almost full circle.


“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.." ~  Carl Sagan. 100 doodles from 100 photos in my phone. This is the last but one week of my extended summer project. The last steps of a marathon. I have mixed feelings about it ending ...

100 drawings: continuing the learning.


“Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying." ~  Ram Dass. 100 doodles from 100 photos in my phone. The story continues...

100 drawings: continuing the beginning.


100 doodles from 100 photos in my phone. The story continues:  It's past 100 days since I began this project now, but I'm going to see it through.. 

100 drawings: still beginning.


The more years I spend in this life, the more comfortable I am with being a beginner. I've been drawing since I was first able to grasp a pencil in one of my tiny uncoordinated mits. Some decades on, the coordination is improving, it's still a practice.. 

100 drawings: back on track


When I set out on this project, I was talking about it with some friends, I remember saying how 'it might not be 100 consecutive days, but I'm determined to see this through to the end". 

100 ways to learn


Every day I learn something new. Some days its to do with drawing, but more often it's a bigger learning about the bigger world. I can't always articulate the enormity of these lessons. But I will have a go: Here's the next 7 learnings I've uncovered!

100 ways to count time


“Don’t think about making art, just get it done.  Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it.  While they are deciding, make even more art.” ~ Andy Warhol.