What's In The Teaching?

Yesterday morning it occurred to me to pay attention to a bit of my own teaching:.  Without exception, whenever a student would ask how to get past an artistic block, I'd say "draw, draw anything and everything."  It's not the results that matters, but what happens during the process.

Drawing can help me transcend stuff.  By locking my eyes on whatever happens to be in sight and respond with the intention of discovering nothing more than shapes, lines and values, I can take an amazing journey.  It requires being quick, keeping the mind clear of clutter, not allowing any thought to interfere.  And once a drawing is on the page, it is important not to judge it, rather to accept whatever happens as unlocking the mental and emotional clutter, clearing a path for the next step.

     And so that's what I did here:

 It might take a dozen sessions like this to get me in a good place to paint with the ease again. That painting that was in the incubator went south, so what we might get to watch for a while is process.