Friday, the day I was supposed to go fishing, I got up early, prepared breakfast, and my coffee and was half-way done before I got the text that we wouldn’t be going, on account of bad weather. I don’t know about you, but I just can’t go back to bed with a stomach full of […]
It was too rainy to go fishing, so I did a lot of reading, mainly about lines and how to draw them. Well… I take that back. I’m reading Paul Klee’s notebooks, on which it is difficult to gain a foothold. Don’t get me wrong, I am fascinated by his approach that gets to the nitty-gritty […]
Right now, I’m probably out fishing. I prepare my posts the day before and schedule them to appear at midnight of the next day. So to get in the spirit, I thought I’d take my ‘point out for a walk’ to ‘make visible’ a photograph I took when I went fishing the last time. For […]
I was a little shaky, but I took my pencil point for a walk this morning. Paul Klee would be proud. Arthur, my pet avocado tree is inside now after a traumatic foray into a pot of soil. He is back in the mason jar, slightly frayed around the edges. I feel really bad about […]
Daily planning When Anton Håkanson embarked on a school project in assistive technology, he decided to construct an appointment calendar that autistic individuals would find easy to use. He calls his calendar, ‘Snailday’. Visual structure Håkanson wanted to address the problem of a reminder system for people who require a great deal of visual structure. […]
I ended up throwing the decaying kiwi away shortly after I sketched it. But I had another one that I sketched on one or two occasions; I wanted to see what it looked like inside. Today’s study I was fairly certain that this kiwi was not grown near a nuclear plant, but rather was an alien. It must […]
I feel really bad for Arthur. He was doing so well. But his roots were getting dense and started to curl around; he looked crowded, even though he was getting another sprouting of leaves. Arthur is my pet avocado tree that I started on top of a Mason jar. The other day I decided it was […]
