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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Happy New Year!



"Nothing can add more power
to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets."
—Nido Qubein: is a businessman and motivational speaker 
My primary focus has always been art, This black and white drawing was done in 1977, in Modesto, at a coffee house named the Coffee Bean.  It had an out side seating area surrounded by a cinderblock wall. I would have been 23 years old and I remember the sketch pad went everywhere, and I would draw what ever was around me. I drew in black ink, so there was no erasing, and all of the drawings from this period have a funky, organic quality to them. They asked me to come back and do another sketch of the premises for them and they paid for my breakfast. I am not sure it was a fair trade, (looking back) I was there about 4 hours, but I jumped on it. I have boxes of sketch books that I am slowly scanning when I have time. 
Right now my limited set of targets are school and work. Because I am studying graphic design, I am spending most of my time on a computer. If I had a laptop, it would go everywhere with me much the same way as the sketchbook does. I still carry a sketch book in the car, in my purse, there is one in every room of the house, and in the survival backpack I carry in the car. I will still draw on a scrap of paper if that is all I have. Drawing is still at the heart of what I do. 

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