Drawing adventures

If I thought getting back into running was hard, drawing is even harder 😭

Rick Rubin's The Creative Act is inspiring.. but he also says not to rely on inspiration. Haha.

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I went to Beinart Gallery in Brunswick and Brunswick Street Gallery (which despite its name, is not in Brunswick 😅) for some inspiration. 

While it didn't immediately move me to draw, one set of large paintings by Nancy Cover made me think -  

We can choose to stand really close with our nose to the painting and just see random blotches of colours that don't make much sense.. or we could take a few steps back and see the overall beauty and cohesion of the painting as a whole. 

It's a bit like.. the ugly blotch, the mistake, the painful situation you're in - isn't the whole story, it's not the end. If anything, it adds to the overall depth of your life. I say this whilst standing slightly outside of the midst of it, I know it's something that's easy to say but hard to realise.

"All art is a work in progress."
- Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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