Karudden's Blog

Painting on cardboard I’m sending as a postcard to a friend (librarian).

I remember when I was working at jobs with the public, having daily interactions with multiple people, like at the drugstore and the independent senior living home, I often thought I should write about and draw some of the interesting characters I met, but I only did that a couple of times. I’m going to make a promise to myself to start carrying a small sketchbook so I can do that when I think of it, even though I’m not out in public regularly anymore, then I can put it down instead of putting it off. Cheers to keeping promises you make to yourself!

This drawing is maybe 20 years old? I found it while trying to make a little progress on my art room space clutter. I like it a lot.

This is an experimental drawing from an intuitive drawing class from a couple years ago. It’s a continuous line drawing, with eyes open, and then we also did them “blind.”

This drawing intrigues me still, every time I find it again in my paper/art piles. It’s at least ten plus years old, and I know I was trying to do something reminiscent of Picasso-style sketches. I don’t know why I don’t date things. (I do occasionally.)

A “mantra for appreciating life’s fleeting phases.” That’s how I feel when the seasons start to change, from Winter to Spring, and Summer to Autumn. I had a loose plan to share pictures of the clutter fest that my art-making space is currently (and has been ever since I removed a table several months ago, which seemed to tail-spin every other area), but I don’t want to do that. It feels pointless unless I have “after” pictures as well, which I don’t. I don’t want to say: “Check out this awful, unwelcoming, constricted space and see how bad it is!” unless I have the happy ending photos to show the results of the makeover.

I’ll do it someday (I say, fully realizing that someday never comes … usually, but hoping it will anyway); for right now, I want to keep my posting commitment, so I am sharing a painting I found in a sketchbook from a few years ago, because I like parts of it very much (the shadow under her chin, her expression, the hand), and that I wasn’t too heavy-handed with the watercolor.

And just for fun, a pretty sunset from a few days ago, because why not.