19499. Hiking to Monte Cristo Ghost Town in Washington State June 29, 2020

19498. Hiking to Monte Cristo Ghost Town in Washington State June 29, 2020

19497. Hiking to Monte Cristo Ghost Town in Washington State June 29, 2020

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19495. The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas June 29, 2020

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19491. The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas June 29, 2020

19490. The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas June 29, 2020

19489. The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas June 29, 2020

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19487. The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas June 29, 2020

19257. “There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you’ll get. In fact, you’ll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences than from those that go exactly as you’d hoped and planned. So let it go. Release your ego’s desire for perfection. Take risks. Stretch. Grow. Create as much as you can, whenever you can.” ― Danny Gregory, The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are June 21, 2020

19256. “The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.” ― Danny Gregory, The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are June 21, 2020

19255. “Whoever draws the best picture wins” ― Dan Roam, Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind June 21, 2020

19254. “Drawing isn’t an artistic process; drawing is a thinking process.” ― Dan Roam, Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind June 21, 2020

19253. “Even in two-dimensional works you can convey the sense of touching a variety of surfaces by using implied texture. You can use line, value, color, pattern and contrast to create simulated textures on flat surfaces.” ― Shelly Dax, The Tattoo Textbook: Escape the Grind, Do What You Love, and Launch Your Kick-Ass Tattoo Career June 21, 2020

19252. “Art is energy, emotion, entertainment and sometimes economics.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words June 21, 2020

19251. “In my opinion, writers and illustrators are both deep thinkers. While writers use words and sentences to tell a story, illustrators nowadays use their talent and art to say the same story with their drawings and illustrations. Both skills, writing, and drawing need much intellect, patience, determination, hard work, persistence, and practice.” ― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi June 21, 2020

19250. “Uno tiende a olvidar que lo visual es siempre el resultado de un encuentro irrepetible, momentáneo.” ― John Berger, Berger on Drawing June 21, 2020

19249. “If you can’t paint a man falling from a five story building before he hits the ground, you will never make a monumental painting.” ― Alain Jaubert, NOT A BOOK: Eugene Delacroix – Liberty Leading the People from the Palettes Series – VHS June 21, 2020

19248. “Designing Structures is an art and this needs to be transparent, as designs come and go but creativity stays there” ― Er. Tabish Rasool June 21, 2020

19247. “I then tell myself that the result is pitiful but the struggle worth it because I looked at color and I looked at the night and the river like I never had before and saw what I take so for granted with new eyes. Is there any activity that so rewards failure? These are toads that become flowers.” ― Michael Taussig, I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own June 21, 2020

19246. “Hammer out the drawing. Unremitting, persistent effort will bend a stubborn ungainly sketch into a graceful finished drawing. We become tough, hardened drawing veterans.” ― Anthony Ryder, The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Master Reveals the Secrets of Drawing the Human Form June 21, 2020

19245. “Even at her sickest, she tried to create at least one drawing every single day. Sometimes she drew stuff out of her head. Other times, she sketched nurses and orderlies and other patients. Once, she was so tired that she could barely sit up, but she struggled through a detailed drawing of her own scrawny fingers holding a pencil.” ― Paul Acampora, I Kill the Mockingbird June 21, 2020

19244. “I taught myself how to write and draw comics at a young age. Possibly under the influence of toad venom.” ― Ian Wilson June 21, 2020

19243. “The illiterate do not write letters; they draw them.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana June 21, 2020

19242. “She had been fair at drawing before the war. She’d drawn her mother dozens of times, as she sat reading or sewing. There had been so many things in those days that kept a person still, that required perfect concentration for hours on end. It had been easy to draw portraits.” ― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls June 21, 2020

19241. “If asked to make a drawing, little girls almost always create scenes with at least one person, while males nearly always draw things—cars, rockets, or trucks.” ― Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men June 21, 2020

19240. “A draw-er doesn’t draw because she loves to draw. She doesn’t draw because she draws well. She draws because once she lost something. And by drawing–she will find it again.” ― Liana Finck, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir June 21, 2020

19239. “Learning how to draw is just like learning how to write, you just need to find a good teacher, and practice a lot. Just remember all those empty pages you filled as a child with your shaky handwriting that looked like chickens’ scratches or ants steps, these efforts are what led you to have a steady and beautiful handwriting later on as an adult.” ― Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi June 21, 2020

19238. “Creativity is like a compass, each one has its own, and all point to the North.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz June 21, 2020

19237. “I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English or Spanish or Chinese or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture, everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say “that’s a flower.” So I draw because I want to talk to the world and I want the world to pay attention to me.” ― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian June 21, 2020

19236. “Drawing is never reproducing – in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at.” ― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights June 21, 2020

19235. “I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.” ― Alan Lee June 21, 2020

19234. “If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects,” I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognize my moods in the motionless suffering of things.” ― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler June 21, 2020

19233. “The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy June 21, 2020

19232. “Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you’re looking at more clearly. Did you know that?” I said nothing. “What color’s a blackbird?” she said. “Black” “Typical!” ― David Almond, Skellig June 21, 2020

19231. “It was amazing what an hour with her sketchpad could do for her mood. She was sure that the lines she drew with her black marker were going to save her years of worry lines in the future.” ― Victoria Kahler, Their Friend Scarlet June 21, 2020

19230. “practice makes better” ― Brian Lies June 21, 2020

19229. “Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory – where it stays – it’s transmitted by your hands.” ― Martin Gayford, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney June 21, 2020

19228. “When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.” ― Alan Lee June 21, 2020

19227. “If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.” ― Stephan Pastis June 21, 2020

19226. “I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I’m still learning how to see them; I’m still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I’ll get it right.” ― Alan Lee June 21, 2020

19225. “I paint the spirit and soul of what I see.” ― Brian Froud June 21, 2020

19224. “We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.” ― Walt Stanchfield June 21, 2020

19223. “All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.” ― John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing June 21, 2020

19222. “But it is a pipe.” “No, it’s not,” I said. It’s a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It’s very clever.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars June 21, 2020

19221. “I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.” ― Beatrix Potter June 21, 2020

19220. “Create with the heart; build with the mind.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy June 21, 2020

19219. “I wish I could draw you how I see you. I’d draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I’d draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean.” ― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes June 21, 2020

19171. Street Art of Spokane, Washington June 20, 2020

19170. Street Art of Spokane, Washington June 20, 2020

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18996. Street Photography in the Deep Elm Neighborhood of Dallas, Texas June 14, 2020

18995. Street Photography in the Deep Elm Neighborhood of Dallas, Texas June 14, 2020

18994. Street Photography in the Deep Elm Neighborhood of Dallas, Texas June 14, 2020

18993. Street Photography in the Deep Elm Neighborhood of Dallas, Texas June 14, 2020

18992. Street Photography in the Deep Elm Neighborhood of Dallas, Texas June 14, 2020

18991. Street Photography in the Deep Elm Neighborhood of Dallas, Texas June 14, 2020

18990. Street Photography in the Deep Elm Neighborhood of Dallas, Texas June 14, 2020

18989. Street Photography in the Deep Elm Neighborhood of Dallas, Texas June 14, 2020

18862. Street Photography: Agua Caliente, Peru June 11, 2020

18809. Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas, Texas June 10, 2020

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