Therapy

So here's my latest blog idea: self-help.

I have things I want to do differently. More to the point I want my life to be different. The bottom line with changing your life (in my opinion) is making a decision then sticking to it.

So here's how I hope blogging will help me. I will work through the process of making the decisions here, then use this as a space to sort of hold me accountable to my decisions.

I want my life to look more like list A and less like list B

List A
Play with the kids
Spend time with Nancy
Fish and camp
play music
draw/paint
Take photos
rest
take time off
invest in friendships
be frugal
read

List B
Work all the time
Worry about money
Deal with poor planning
Stay up all night, or most of the night
Surf mindlessly when I get stuck
Over commit

I want to thank Steffen for his comment on my last post. Very nice photos Steffen. Let me know how you, Frank and Meike are all doing and tell them I said hello.

Wishing

I have been (and this will come as a HUGE surprise) really busy lately.

Taxes rocked our world this year. It sucked. I'm trying some things that should help next year.

I went to drawing class tonight after missing a week. The model was great, she goes to church and we had an interesting conversation about church. It was interesting mostly because while we were talking I was drawing with the rest of the class and she was modeling. 'Interesting' is a good word in those situations.

I want to paint and draw almost all the time. Life doesn't allow that though, so I take what I can get.

I find myself wishing I had some close "confide in" friends. I have a lot of people around me that I care a great deal about, but I think that close friends are missing.

I need to get back to work. If you read this leave a comment so I know this didn't disappear into the black hole of the internet.

Another amazing artist

Thomas Ehretsmann - Holy cow!


(via Drawn)

Rebecca Kimmel and intern update

Hey all, I'd like to point anyone interested in life drawing to Rebecca Kimmel's web site. She has a lot of charcoal drawings and some paintings and digital art.

She has a great sense of "organic" form and a I have really enjoyed looking through her galleries.

In completely unrelated news, for those intern friends of mine, there is an update on the intern blog. You know where it is. If you don't Jackie has a link. (I talked to Eric B. so get on over there)

Another artist to check out

I've been a fan of The Broadview Blog for a while. He uses almost all digital media, but his work looks very painterly.

Go check him out if you're in the mood for some art.

His art is always tasteful, but occasionally there are nudes. (for those who would mind it)

More art

I have discovered a new artist (new to me) - Cali Rezo. Her site is in French - English now and then: www.calirezo.com. She works entirely digitally (which I typically am not too interested in) but does a masterful job.

Be sure to check her porfolio.

Also, another artist that I have admired for years is Jeffrey Jones. He has a colorful history and has gone through quite a lot personally. His art was probably more popular in past decades than it is now, and a lot of it would be considered niche, but I really like a lot of his work. I really like his oil paintings.

Jeffrey Jones