When the world goes mad
and I have a cold,
I cook… soups, stews,
hearty meals that
clear the senses.
Chopping allows me to
release my frustrations.
My red Polish enamel
pot cheers me; I had one just like it in my first apartment.
This one was a
veggie-heavy chili-peppery warming stew.
Mitchell made corn
bread with chili peppers
and hot butter yum….
BTW, our meat, when we have it, is Certified Humane and
as organic as it can be — because grass fed can’t be seen as organic.
Costs more, we eat way less meat than we used to, and it goes a lot farther.
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I love inkpainting, but I’ve been stalled a bit on my own growth as a watercolorist…
I am actually a bit bored. Not that I am very very good —
but I have a handle on watercolors after playing with them for several years.
My goals are not realism, and so without committing to that,
my growth as an artist was stalled and uninspired.
I was looking at Jerome Gray’s amazing buildings this weekend
(@jcgarch on Instagram) and decided to steal from him!
He continually delights me with his watercolors!
I tried the Pittock in the style of… hoping Jerome is flattered.
By playing, I am finding an excitement for my own path again —
bold messy colors and watery ink linework. Made me want to play again…
Loose sketch in a soluble Pilot black ink;
heavy wet watercolors without too much acre of they ran into each other;
final addition of a bit of waterproof platinum black carbon inked lines f
or a bit of my playful linework. I am happy with this one!
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I’ve studied through the slogans a dozen times in my life;
these are my musings on the slogan currently, what comes up on the day that
I am posting the slogan, not a formal interpretation.
For that reason they are less about straight Buddhist teachings,
and I think able to be shared with most practitioners of other faiths or no faith
(unless yours doesn’t allow you to read any other tradition.) If you have time and the inclination, I published the WHOLE thang here!
“51 is all about the practice…”
I am not repeating the actual slogan this morning, because it is all about practicing: benefiting others, compassion, caring, ceasing gossip,
heeding the advice of those who know.
In hard times the benefits of practice shine;
in hard times you have to practice harder.
One thing I suggest as part of your practice, whatever your religion, is to set your own boundaries and be respectful of other’s while keeping yourself safe.
Let someone set the boundaries they need and do not think them foolish.
Some may be visiting people who are vulnerable, and want to be extra cautious.
Some may have vulnerabilities that you can’t see.
Some may believe it is a hoax.
Don’t spread misinformation.
Don’t judge another their cautions.
Be a voice of calm and wisdom.
Don’t be greedy.
Don’t endanger another by your selfish actions.
I will get back to finishing this run on the Lojong, but this has been a hard week.
In this weekly commentary on the lojong, I am interested in hearing about YOUR life or how the lojong affected you or your practice awakening in some manner. For more info about why, go here.
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I sketched about thirty
people this week. Amazing because I had one of the
worst weeks ever in our
business. Despite that,
I achieved my goals for the challenge and actually had FUN sketching PEEPS! YaY!
Goals were:
better likenesses;
correct my ear positioning;
try my hand at babies (argh) and old folks (like me).
and have a little style reflecting fun energy
my artwork!
One takeaway is dipping
into Sktchy or Pexel to grab
an image of people to
sketch is much more freeing at the end of a tense day
than trying to choose an image to which I am
invested, say, of Mitchell,
cats, or our lives. Thinking
of creating a lovely watercolor of something I care about is harder; pulling an unknown
face as an exercise is more relaxing, easier. I actually sketched more, even though
it was a tense week.
I had fun with watercolor, but probably had the most fun with inks (top two images).
I guess I will forever be an in-my-sketchbook only person because inks are not lightfast —
I love my sketchbooks, and being a sketchbook artist, so maybe I need to explore
concertinas and other unusual ways of making them more an art form
than my playbooks — at least some of the time??
Things I need to work on? Brown/black skin tones, watercolor washes that work!
I had success in part, but then not… brown/blue/reds?
It gave me a chance to test the parameters of the Hahnemühle Carnet de Voyage (bamboo) journal with ink washes, ink drawing, and watercolors.
Mostly, I enjoyed working with this journal — but it is not as fountain pen friendly
as the Hahnemühle Watercolour Journal or
the Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook, which was made for fountain pens!
Hahnemühle journals are currently sold online
at Wet Paint and Merriartist (though no bamboo paper yet).
Ink wash is waterproof Super5 Frankfurt in a waterbrush
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and participate in Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday whenever I have time. I write to a timer, 15-20 minutes, no editing except spelling, and of course I add my art! You can join us! The Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “wire.”
This has been a very bad week, and it did actually
come down to the wire — and then passed it. That is not good.
A portion of it revolved around a client who negates even the possibility of the
Covid virus and decided to come after us with a lawyer for a business decision we made.
Our business is small, and we do not interact much with “the public” so we decided
to stop pickups and deliveries (we rent a van so right there is a hot spot bigger than the damn market) for a few weeks. All other clients worked with us and many were fine with the decision. It is not forever, just for a few weeks — though it may go on longer than we imagined. We gave her two options — she chose neither — and then the lawyer was her next choice, before even trying to work it out. Every fricking day there has been nasty letters from her lawyer denying us our boundary and threatening us and in the end, they choose what we offered. Sort of. They want us to admit breach of contract when we were not in breach of contract — so not that I can stake my life on that one — but the problem is that money doesn’t buy brains but it does buy bullying power. For us to be sued means we have to get a lawyer and a lawyer who had a brain would say wtf then have to defend us… and even that lawyer to lawyer is stipulated in our contracts as being something neither party with do, but instead go to small claims and agree to mediation. The fact that I’ve spent days dealing with lies — lies from a lawyer, which I have to counter because otherwise it implies agreement, and lies in the media and lies in our country that will in fact be the cause of more deaths, and I learned the true meaning of the word apoplectic, which is to be so angry that you are speechless from anger — a rare thing for anyone who knows me. When angry I am usually coherent, but the complete lack of even a bit of logic, ability to read a contract, and bullying sent me over the edge twice in one week, and the only good news is that my heart is fine and I am not actually having a stroke.
If I could have released my anger into tears that would have been good.
Then Thursday night a dear friend called us to say she has stage 4 cancer.
Tears.
Then last night I texted with another dear friend and mentor
and she is going into palliative care.
Weeping, and this brought me to how adrift I feel in the world as it is now.
Fucking social media and whatever else this world has come to has turned many into unfeeling, uncaring, unconscious (in the most basic sense of the word) inhumane beings.
They have no thought to what lays behinds decisions and no curiosity and no willingness to engage the other. In the era of Trump it is all about screaming loudly and being about as stupid as stupid can be. Even our newspapers who should be having a field day with showing us the lies are enjoying churning for profit, and so they are no longer news sources. We are a lost country in what may be a lost world.
I weep for my friends and for the huge loss coming at us as surely as the
big ball rolling toward Indiana Jones at the beginning of Raiders… and I am not talking the Covid virus but our global environmental issues. Democrats and Republicans apparently are going to elect someone who thinks of global issues as things
we need to do by 2050, or never, and then it will be too late.
Going into silence today to let myself feel the sadness.
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I fell in love with the image of the two men who created Troublemaker Inks.
Image courtesy of http://www.pennoob.com.
As I said, I am really enjoying slowing down and being interested in the outcome of
the people I am drawing, instead of rushing the challenge just to reach 100 people.
I love Troublemaker Inks as well, though I could not use them in the drawings —
I needed waterproof inks.
I began drawing the men with light
guidelines, then inked with Super5 Frankfurt. I used the same ink in a waterbrush to add some shading before I used watercolors.
There is something I have to get used to about watercolors on the Bamboo paper — they sit on top of it a bit more than on other Hahnemühle papers. I’ve only watercolored a half-dozen or so, and it may be that I am not as fond of the paper, or that I need practice.
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I’ve always loved greys in their many forms, but grey inks hold a
special fascination for me especially as I play with them with a waterbrush.
Blue-greys, purple greys, green-greys leaning into muted greyed browns.
Grey inks are better than watercolors because their peculiar chemical makeup
allows the best ones to separate into colors; I swoon!
I am working mostly with greys and muted colors in my portraits
during the #oneweek100people challenge.
Robert Oster Australian Opal Grey
appears subtle, but hit with water
it also produces turquoise!
However, not as bright
as Robert Oster Graphite ink,
which produces bright turquoise
when a generous amount of water
is used.
I love using a softer pencil in a sketch underneath greys…
Sometimes I leave the guidelines in, as in the couple kissing,
sometimes I erase most of them, as in the man with the hat.
If you had not seen the lines melt into dark purply-grey
next to the sketch above you’d never know the wild color in those lines!
I love Robert Oster Charcoal because it
behaves well for a meeting then becomes steamy when wet… FPR Himalayan with Robert Oster Charcoal ink.
It annoys me that I still find myself frozen with fear of failure in my sketchbook.
I can turn the page — hell, I can tear it out and draw the damn thing over again but my monkey mind still gets caught.
The moody boy (gads I hate drawing babies!) was drawn with a TWSBI Eco 1.1 with Birmingham Tarnished Nickel ink… They made the most stunning grey inks — Tarnished Nickel and Slag Grey are my all time favorite greys inks.
OLD FORMULA
My favorite waterproof ink isn’t black —
though I use a Platinum Carbon pen a lot for ease when sketching under watercolors.
It is Super5 Frankfurt ink, a slightly green grey.
Above, layers of waterproof Super5 Frankfurt ink
followed by Pilot Iroshizuku Kiri-same ink for shading.
I moved into the mostly muted colored inks
on the the side for the foliage behind and her tee..
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My first year I hated it and said screw this challenge after one or two days.
Last year (third year) I really pushed to do 100 people.
I didn’t enjoy it because I hated the push to speed…
But I also have to say I did begin to see what I don’t do well and I also got better at people. A huge part of that was paying attention to what I find boring!
This year I don’t care at all about 100 people
BUT I have goals and am taking the time to sketch people only daily.
My goals are to get good likenesses and not have ears sitting too close to noses,
and try my hand at babies and old folks.
And can I be decent enough to have a bit of style?
Well, I really love what I did here.
And how nice to say that because I NEVA EVA say that about peeps!
Penciled guidelines, then inked, then watercolor!
Thank you to “FransA” from pexels for his image!
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I’ve studied through the slogans a dozen times in my life;
these are my musings on the slogan currently, what comes up on the day that
I am posting the slogan, not a formal interpretation.
For that reason they are less about straight Buddhist teachings,
and I think able to be shared with most practitioners of other faiths or no faith
(unless yours doesn’t allow you to read any other tradition.) If you have time and the inclination, I published the WHOLE thang here!
Sorta taking a break
this weekend.
Practicing but not going online right now.
Instead, I thought you
might like to see
the HUGE and
tiny weeping Buddhas I painted in acrylic
and on handmade paper
and in colored pencil
on black paper because
truth is, I’ve painted
him for years.
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I wanted this pen for a long time.
Stunned by it’s simple beauty and clear drenched color, I waited for over a year.
I was not seduced by other pens in similar colors…
Then when it became available, I could not afford it and they were going fast!!
You have to know that I had bugged the brothers once a month,
Pleading, “When oh when will you make this pen!?”
They KNOW me…
Well, the brothers at Birmingham did the nicest thing: They found a way to make it happen for me.
☾ Pen people are special…
They understand the longing for color and shape and
they are also just nice folks.
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I have several inks that will be perfect for this pen;
I confess to making a page of potential inks that might be perfect!
I wanted clear color, drenched color, and an ink that was not too dry.
I started with Diamine Claret because it is such a beautiful and well-behaved ink.
The pen writes beautifully, as I knew it would!
I imagine that over the years it will also be filled with Robert Oster Hot Pink
(in a different pen right now) and Birmingham Gerbera ink, both good matches!
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I don’t often push a sale or deal on you all,
but this is a GREAT deal if you haven’t got a palette or want a good one. Daniel Smith (excellent paints) has a set of 24 pan paints with an extra metal palette as a bonus, ready to be filled with tube paints. Merriartist, my favorite small art store, is shipping this set free!
The second empty palette comes with 24 half pans, but as you can see,
if you like larger pans, you can certainly swap them out!
PS: There are smaller sets, but not with the bonus palette;
nor free shipping which starts at $90. Look at the top three here.
The 24 DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors in the set are:
Buff Titanium
Hansa Yellow Light
Quinacridone Gold
Hansa Yellow Deep
Pyrrol Scarlet
Permanent Alizarin Crimson
Quinacridone Rose
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean Blue, Chromium
Phthalo Blue (GS)
Cobalt Turquoise
Phthalo Green (BS)
Sap Green
Perylene Green
Undersea Green
Raw Sienna Light
Yellow Ochre
Goethite (Brown Ochre)
Indian Red
Quinacridone Burnt Orange
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber
Raw Umber
Jane’s Grey
Many of these colors are some of my favorites,
though I wish they’d dropped either Buff Titanium or Jane’s Grey —
So many sets put black in which is a waste, and so this is a good set!
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What do you do with a really bad drawing in your nice new art journal?
I started this on a day of talking and talking and a little sketching with an art friend.
We went to the Pittock Mansion to sketch, and they let us largely because they
understood that I knew the rules of a museum and would abide by them.
No watercolors, but a pen and pencil were fine…
Sitting in the West Bedroom on the floor, sketching the loveseat,
look at what my completely reliable Platinum Carbon Pen did!
Leaked in a huge blob! AAACK!
Not that it was the best drawing in the world…
Talking more than drawing, and not paying too much attention, having fun!
I took so many pics, and decided to lead the Virtual Sketchers through Pittock.
Not too enthused by this page, I still have a commitment to it.
Every page in my sketchbooks may not be a masterpiece,
but my commitment is to finishing it and caring about it. At least a little.
I drew a couple of details quickly. Still not great….
Finally I tossed some waterproof grey ink and watercolors on it. Hey that page doesn’t look horrid now.
Proportions wonky, but lively and I can always skip through it quickly if I am sharing!
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Bellingham city sketched
with a Sailor Fude De Mannen Calligraphy Navy Blue Angle 40 Degrees pen with
Robert Oster Muddy Water ink. I can’t believe I like
the 55-degree fude better!
I had a hard time feeling the edges of this 40-degree pen.
I sketched with ink, no guidelines… it shows…
but mostly I had trouble getting the hang of
how to hold the pen so
the flat hit the paper.
Hard not to be critical when
I struggled so much!
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I’ve studied through the slogans a dozen times in my life;
these are my musings on the slogan currently, what comes up on the day that
I am posting the slogan, not a formal interpretation.
For that reason they are less about straight Buddhist teachings,
and I think able to be shared with most practitioners of other faiths or no faith
(unless yours doesn’t allow you to read any other tradition.) If you have time and the inclination, I published the WHOLE thang here!
“#50: Don’t be swayed by external circumstances.“
Never has it been harder not to be swayed by external circumstances.
The news depresses me, angers me.
It is MOST upsetting that it appears MOST of the people in power are
only interested in their bank accounts, not the health of their children’s future.
I’m struggling with this one, so this morning I am doing the work, glad for this reminder… Remember that when I am at a loss for what to send out, I send the image of a sunflower, which is positivity…
“Breathe in my anger, Send out sunflowers.
Breathe in my sadness, Send out sunflowers.
Breathe in the polar bears environment collapsing… Send out safety to all sentient beings. Breathe in the Oil companies that pretend to care about the bears… and Inuits… and others (getting harder to stay focused in my sitting meditation)… Send out enlightenment, wakefulness… Breathe in the “news” organizations that won’t tell the facts… Send out sunflowers… Breathe in the anger I have for the people who do not care about the homeless… Send out warmth, shelter, food…for both the homeless and those that don’t care.”
It is the best I can do.
I am barely able to be sincere at all in sending out any kind of compassion.
These are truly terrible times.
Long go, Chagdud Rinpoche said, “One can have a little bit of hope.” I think I need to be swayed by the beauty in the world.
The beauty of Yo-Yo Ma and James Taylor.
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A bottle of (shimmering) PenBBS #103 Hyacinth Macaw ink leaked…
It replicates the color of the
beautiful hyacinth macaws perfectly!
This glittering ink is Mitchell’s!
(Image by Hank Gillette in Wikipedia**.)
Got me thinking about my blue inks.
I buy a lot of blue ink: the color of the ocean,
home home home. I miss seeing the vast blue that goes forever, in all its variation.
And I bought a new blue, a true blue,
from gee-whiz-i-wonder-who-blue,
my favorite ink-mixer, Robert Oster True Blue ink.
Some of the blues above are samples — which I rarely buy anymore — and only if I have never tried the brand.
Too much plastic waste.
And I can tell if I am going to love an ink now… Dead
center is my new Robert Oster True Blue ink: delicious, heavenly, wonderful, sheening, all blue with no surprises. I love blues that move into other colors
when I am painting with them, but then there
are those pure clear
saturation of pigment!
**I found a great page of images that are reference, in the public domain.
Thanks to Hank Gillette and others who offer their images for reuse. https://www.allpetbirds.com/parrot-pictures
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and participate in Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday whenever
I have time. I write to a timer, 15-20 minutes, no editing except spelling,
and of course I add my art! You can join us! Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “ect.” Find a word with the letters “ect” in it, and base your post on that word. (Not to be confused with “et cetera,” which is “etc.”) Enjoy!
“perfect misdirect reinfect subject respect suspect deflect reject direct elect”
these words were chosen by mitchell… elect is a good place to start.
i’m disgusted by everything in our country lately… lost respect,
and can barely manage to write this post about the election.
in a humane decent time candidates would want us to vote for them based
on their platform being popular with the people.
now, mostly, they deflect their truths for bullshit and misdirection…
i am suspect of anyone who suddenly comes up with an entirely different
way of being than their years of experience have revealed.
i don’t mind some changes —
a candidate may decide climate change needs to be front and center now
because their home is about to go under due to rising seas and they get it…
so those kinds of changes are not suspect.
but billionaires buying their way into the ballot box
(as opposed to the millionaires who ran as a normal person might)
and deflection instead of truth-telling or the dnc rejecting what the people want
because it is not in alignment with their corporate sponsors —
shit
it is no wonder young people walk away from these elections.
rigged… when your own party is rigging the count what can you say?
the last debate as so over the top rude and screaming,
and the moderators so bad i rejected the entire debate, turned it off.
news castors can’t differentiate between spin and editorializing and reporting.
and no one respects the constitution.
ashamed to be an american.
said that too often in the last decade.
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Thomas Blanchard was an online friend.
We traded watercolors, pens, and ink, and chatted on two platforms.
He knew I wanted this PenBBS and it was no longer available,
and was going to sell his to me because that was who he was…
He wanted to make people happy!
Oddly, he stopped answering me mid-conversation on IG.
It was unlike him, and I texted him,
and finally he answered me saying he’d been having medical issues.
Next thing I heard he died.
That was upsetting. Our online friends can be dear to us and
he was one of those people I looked for, missed, and cared about.
Then I heard he committed suicide.
Oh.
I wished I’d known he was heading there.
Social media is a “happy” place, but maybe if there was a bit more reality
he’d still be with us… or maybe he was diagnosed with
something with which he could not live. People tell someone, give people a chance to help you….
This isn’t his pen, but one exactly like it.
Another pen-person on IG read my note to his family
when they were selling his pens at an East Coast show.
His family doesn’t understand crazy artists or sentimental tools or any of that,
and so didn’t think too much about those of us who wrote to them.
Wendy offered this to me at a ridiculously low price.
I think of him (and her kindness) every time I use it,
It is filled with Robert Oster True Blue ink. Fitting; Tom said he loved blue paint,
and gifted me with my first M.Graham blue.
Do you have a memory about an object
most people would not even think about?
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Showing my orange pens some love — especially as
I added a new pen to the lineup, a bright orange Nemosine —
so cheery to use when it is grey skies for a month.
Beat the doldrums!
Kill winter with ORANGE!
I love orange ink too, but not enough to fill them all with orange, mostly because the clearest orange colors tend to be a bit light to write with everyday.
As my Patreon supporter, you will have
access to some content not on this website,
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I teach architectural sketching,
art journaling (art+writing), creativity, watercolors.
That annoying loud-mouth editor/critic in your head? GONE! How great would that be?
I'd love it if you shared this; please mention my blog name!
When the world goes mad
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