December 2009 « on becoming an artist

our thanksgiving morning walk

all creatures great and small

Some of my favorite pictures are those I take on our family’s annual Thanksgiving morning walk. Some of my favorite portraits are actually portraits of hands. Here are a couple of my favorite examples of both.

nature's hands

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what is your thing?

inktense pencils, moleskine sketchbook

I have to admit an envy towards those who have one single ‘thing’ they are passionate about. Whether it’s the painter, the singer, the cyclist, the writer or the yogi, I am a little jealous of my friends who appear to have such a strong core identity around which everything [...]

small packages

Turkish terra cotta pitcher – pencil in Moleskine sketchbook

One of the wonderful things about posting my drawing online is that the little pieces take on the same weight and significance as the big ones. This is one of my favorite drawings. It takes up about half a page in a [...]

Becky's bookshelf: read

Shakespeare Wrote for Money

by Nick Hornby

I was in a bookstore the other day hunting for something to read on writing when I got distracted by the books on reading. I picked this one up, knowing nothing about Nick Hornby beyond his connection to About a Boy. My impressions in no...

Wonder

by R.J. Palacio

I grew up loving to read and hope to pass that on so every year I get books for my nieces and nephews for Christmas. There are twenty of them and as they're getting older I can no longer give only books I've read so each year there are o...