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Thankful
I have lots to be thankful for: my health, my job, my friends, and my family. I’m also thankful that I started drawing again, and that I have the time to do it. Here are some quick sketches of the...
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More Every Day Matters
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso In my last post, I wrote that I was thankful for the big things in my life. When I asked my kids...
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The Greatest
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” - Muhammad Ali The other night I was tired, and I didn’t feel like sketching. But creating good art is more about consistency and hard work, than it is...
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Keep Calm and Draw On
Friends often ask me how I find time to draw. I’m not a professional artist, so I just draw when I can. I previously wrote that I draw when I travel, or when I’m in restaurants. I sometimes just...
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Perception and Passion
“Every day of your life you can create something wonderful, so every day is going to be the same kind of wonderful day that every other day is – a day in which you discover something new because as...
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Happy Birthday, Babe!
Twelve years ago today, I met my wife. My friends, one of whom worked with Stacie, called me that afternoon and said, “We’re taking our friend out for dinner. It’s her birthday. Do you want to join...
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Variety
I have a hard time committing to any activity for an extended period of time. I have a long list of “tried and abandoned” pursuits, including the piano, the harmonica, Spanish, speed reading, and...
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Sketchbook Journal
I sketch because I enjoy doing it, but I also draw because it helps my memory. Sometimes the past feels like a blur. When my kids were infants, I bought them each a baseball glove. Now they are...
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The Hiatus – 30 Days With An Empty Cup
A common expression in the martial arts is, “Empty your cup.” The phrase is an analogy for knowledge and learning. Those who think they know everything have a full cup. If you try to teach these...
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It’s Time To Smell (and Draw) the Roses
“What a lovely thing a rose is!…Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary...
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What Happens When You Leave Wall Street?
You pack up your Upper West Side apartment. You drive across the country. You put all of your earthly belongings in storage. You and your family take a year to travel around the world. And you...
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Discovering at the Discovery Museum
A day out with my youngest at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Filed under: Family, Life, Sketches
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A Time For Thanks
I am thankful for these little guys, and for the bigger versions they are now. Of course, I’m also thankful for the little brother, who after seeing that he was not included in this drawing, told me...
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Mentors
I recently read a blog post by Seth Godin about mentorship. He wrote, “the primary driver of mentor benefit has nothing to do with the mentor herself, nothing beyond the feeling of obligation the...
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Why I Sketch For 30 Minutes Every Morning
“We have failed to recognize our great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing.” – Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805) In high school, my art teacher advised...
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Why I Sleep Better
My grandfather once told me that the hours of sleep before midnight were better than those afterwards, so he recommended that I get to bed at a reasonable hour. In order to wake up early in the...
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