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the day of small things
"in the waiting room"
One of my favorite Scripture passages asks, "For who has despised the day of small things?" That has become my mantra for my art. I don't have the privilege of going to the studio every day and painting as long as I would like, but I do have the privilege of carrying a sketchbook wherever I go and it is filled with people and things---people at the lunch counter in Sam's Club, those in front of me in the post office line, the preachers who stand before me each week, the dog on his pillow, the lecturer at the last meeting, those in the waiting room, the family in front of me at Cici's, the trees across the street while I'm waiting in the car. And I'm finding that every scribble in that sketchbook works to improve my drawing and my visual memory.
The other daily ritual that is making a difference is following Ian Robert's suggestion in MASTERING COMPOSITION to make a composition a day.
Small things will, I hope, exponentially improve my art. They already feed my creativity.
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