They don't sell lined paper in my country, Bob, so we're forced to make our own.
Kidding! I'm kidding!
I wrote that on copy paper.
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Kidding! I'm kidding!
I wrote that on copy paper.
You could write your letters, scan them into a PDF, and email them. Your niece could proceed to print them out and repeat.
Efficiency!
A neat idea, and I have done that from time to time, LTKG.
There's a certain nostalgic romance in writing, sealing, stamping and posting which I love. And when I finally do receive a letter in my mailbox, it's a glorious occasion!
Thanks for your interest& support, LearningToLetGo!
STILL Loving the way that T is connected to the H.
Davey Do I noticed your drawings often have hand-drawn lines on them. Is this a stylistic choice or do you add the lines for proportions, etc. and eventually erase them?
I will have you know that even though you wrote just kidding at the bottom..... I actually fell for this for a brief second.They don't sell lined paper in my country, Bob, so we're forced to make our own.
I use graph paper.... I love graph/grid paper..... I don't use anything BUT graph paper. Not only do I have my horizontal lines.... I get the bonus of vertical ones for the SAME price. HAHAHA
They don't sell lined paper in my country, Bob, so we're forced to make our own.
Kidding! I'm kidding! I wrote that on copy paper.
Good morning, everyone!
I know there is a Fred Meyers (a hypermarket similar to Costco) in LearningToLetGo's country and they sell lined paper. lol!
Davey Do, I'm bad at acronyms so I ask, what is LTKG?
In Awe of Him, I also love graph paper. I use to use graph paper for numbers and on the same page play tic-tac-toe. lol!
Why does that NOT surprise me. HAHA.
I am going to guess... at something you asked Davey Do.... I am going to guess it's a typo and that he should have
written LTLG...... HAHAHAHAHAHAA @ Bob
bobinfaith: LTKG means I'm a terrible typist, terrible proofreader, and it's what my tablet thought I wanted to say, so In Awe of Him is correct!
I'm right..................................I'm right.......................oh goody gum drops........................ I'm right!!!
That is a great question, LearningToLetGo, and it's like T.S. Elliott said, "... and at the end of our journey when we return to the place we started, we will know it for the first time". Or something like that.
In Junior High School, for example, a few of us had an ongoing comic strip where we drew an episode, passed it to another, then they would draw the next episode on notebook paper, and on. In later years, I would draw on nothing but unlined paper, forsaking the notebook paper for something I believed was more substantial.
Upon my retirement five years ago, I felt free to experiment with different media and draw to my heart's content. Having some old, left over notebook paper, I played around with it, and found it to be very pleasing having guidelines. I liked the guidelines so much that I went to drawing journals from decades last and lined empty spaces and pages. I even got into using my first drawing tool, a lead pencil.
I had returned to where I started and knew the place for the first time.
I love all of my art implements, but at this time mostly use a pencil, a couple of markers, and a gel pen, for I find pleasure in the simplicity of the drawing.
Thank you for asking Learning to Let It Go, for I enjoyed answering.
That is how I feel about my graph paper... I just LOVE the stuff. It's interesting to hear you state that you have chosen to go back to the basics.
The pencil is such a wonderful tool... I also love the eraser. I think those two go hand in hand.
Tomorrow is MONDAY ... OH boy....
The pencil is such a wonderful tool... I also love the eraser. I think those two go hand in hand.
Tomorrow is MONDAY ... OH boy....
As a child, I loved to draw. I had dreams of one day becoming a comic-book artist. My favorite tools were graphite pencils, charcoal and India ink.
In the subsequent years I have given up drawing but lately have felt the urge to return to it.
One never knows what the future may hold...
In the subsequent years I have given up drawing but lately have felt the urge to return to it.
One never knows what the future may hold...
In Awe of Him: I have often said that mistakes will be made and that's why God gave people the knowledge to make erasers
LearningToLetGo: "Dreams of becoming a comic book artist" is something with which I can identify. To be well-known & popular.
However, God had different plans for me, and we have an understanding: "Thy will be done".
I did ask God for a job where I made relatively good money and could do my art and He gave me a nursing career, years as a free-lance artist, and then a midnight nursing job which sometimes had long hours of inactivity. It was one of those "feast or famine" positions where either nothing happened or everything happened, which was good for doing art and kept me on my toes as far as my nursing skills.
I would strongly encourage you to pursue your drawing endeavors, and to do so without putting any expectations upon yourself. We rarely have the initial chance to meet our own expectations.
I was having lunch for the first time with a locally successful and well-known artist and found out that we do the same thing when not specifically inspired but just want to do art: We scribble Then we try to see images in the scribble, define them, which leads on to other thoughts, resulting in a specific idea for a drawing or art project .
Play around with it, but most of all, enjoy it!
The best to you both.
LearningToLetGo: "Dreams of becoming a comic book artist" is something with which I can identify. To be well-known & popular.
However, God had different plans for me, and we have an understanding: "Thy will be done".
I did ask God for a job where I made relatively good money and could do my art and He gave me a nursing career, years as a free-lance artist, and then a midnight nursing job which sometimes had long hours of inactivity. It was one of those "feast or famine" positions where either nothing happened or everything happened, which was good for doing art and kept me on my toes as far as my nursing skills.
I would strongly encourage you to pursue your drawing endeavors, and to do so without putting any expectations upon yourself. We rarely have the initial chance to meet our own expectations.
I was having lunch for the first time with a locally successful and well-known artist and found out that we do the same thing when not specifically inspired but just want to do art: We scribble Then we try to see images in the scribble, define them, which leads on to other thoughts, resulting in a specific idea for a drawing or art project .
Play around with it, but most of all, enjoy it!
The best to you both.
I picked up an Ames Lettering Guide. Seems I need a PhD to figure it out. Gist is "spin wheel, select desired line height" so I think I'll manage. Now I can easily line blank paper, e.g. for writing on stationary, etc.
So fun!
Writing is a great gift to have, and so is art.
I have never been able to draw. When my two children were little, they asked me to draw a cat ! So I did, and they fell about laughing. Whiskers, eats and eyes all in the wrong place.
I bought a book the title was "Anyone can draw". It is untrue. I followed all the directions and three weeks later, I took the book to a charity shop. My children didn't need it!
I have never been able to draw. When my two children were little, they asked me to draw a cat ! So I did, and they fell about laughing. Whiskers, eats and eyes all in the wrong place.
I bought a book the title was "Anyone can draw". It is untrue. I followed all the directions and three weeks later, I took the book to a charity shop. My children didn't need it!
It is untrue... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA... and still HAHAHAHAHA... That is so funny... I took the book back. HAHAHA
This is going to be funny for a WHOLE WEEK...,. HAHAHAHA
Edit*** Davey Do won't mind that I have overtaken his thread for a minute. HA
Ok... so.... I am funny.... Mr. Moose is Funny... Bob is funny but by accident. HAHAHA.
Do you know what is the FUNNIEST???? When someone who is NOT normally funny IS funny.
NOW that is HILARIOUS and it gives me great JOY to witness these situations when they occur.
That has been the humour report for Tuesday, February 25th, 2025.
Edit*** Davey Do won't mind that I have overtaken his thread for a minute. HA
Ok... so.... I am funny.... Mr. Moose is Funny... Bob is funny but by accident. HAHAHA.
Do you know what is the FUNNIEST???? When someone who is NOT normally funny IS funny.
NOW that is HILARIOUS and it gives me great JOY to witness these situations when they occur.
That has been the humour report for Tuesday, February 25th, 2025.
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LearningToLetGo: I truly appreciate step by step directions on anything, but somehow, they take away from the thrill of self-discovery. Instructors tend to try to make us think as they think and follow their line of reasoning or how they learned. Although any artist can imitate or emulate others' work, within that work, there are always nuances of the performing artist.
We often have expectations of how we believe the product turn out, take for example Cosia's cat, with its features not in the "right" place. Had Picasso put a subject's features in the right place, he would not have created his masterpieces.
If we can approach art with great abandon and merely enjoy the process, that's all that really matters, for the product does not belong to us. It is said that the only thing we truly possess is the moment and that's what art is really all about. Oh, we enjoy taking in the products of the great artists, but they didn't necessarily create those works for the viewers, they created them for themselves and shared their work, well, because it's good stuff.
God's will has guided me, led me, through my search for fulfillment through art. Had I taken art classes, I would learn techniques from instructors and perhaps produced some great works, but I would have missed the thrill of discovery. I have discovered America multiple times throughout my life, and it didn't matter that the Vikings got there first, I discovered it through trials, errors, pitfalls, and illuminations resulting in nothing short of ecstasy!
Anyone who has a desire to create art can do so by merely picking up the media of their choice. The desired process may be instantaneous, or it can take years of struggling and groping before we find our niche, but if the process is enjoyable, that's what it's all about.
Thank you all for acting as catalysts in a topic I find most interesting.
We often have expectations of how we believe the product turn out, take for example Cosia's cat, with its features not in the "right" place. Had Picasso put a subject's features in the right place, he would not have created his masterpieces.
If we can approach art with great abandon and merely enjoy the process, that's all that really matters, for the product does not belong to us. It is said that the only thing we truly possess is the moment and that's what art is really all about. Oh, we enjoy taking in the products of the great artists, but they didn't necessarily create those works for the viewers, they created them for themselves and shared their work, well, because it's good stuff.
God's will has guided me, led me, through my search for fulfillment through art. Had I taken art classes, I would learn techniques from instructors and perhaps produced some great works, but I would have missed the thrill of discovery. I have discovered America multiple times throughout my life, and it didn't matter that the Vikings got there first, I discovered it through trials, errors, pitfalls, and illuminations resulting in nothing short of ecstasy!
Anyone who has a desire to create art can do so by merely picking up the media of their choice. The desired process may be instantaneous, or it can take years of struggling and groping before we find our niche, but if the process is enjoyable, that's what it's all about.
Thank you all for acting as catalysts in a topic I find most interesting.
