Sunday drawing practice
While watching morning news. Been using the Line of Action website as I practice gesture drawing lately. https://line-of-action.com
Joy Harjo
It is Saturday morning, and the most important thing you can watch right now is Joy Harjo, who was named the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate last week. Harjo says that humanizing and healing will be her aims as Poet Laureate—“a healing of people speaking to each other, with each other.”
More on drawing
I had hoped to sketch every day in February along with reading the Edwards’ book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. But the month got so busy with the usual stuff that I ended up sketching here & there on a couple of different apps, messing around with brushes & shading, some freehand, some tracing. It […]
February drawing
This month’s goal is to start a daily drawing practice, so I purchased a copy of Betty Edwards’ book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Here are some early sketches. Day 1: I sketched my hand while helping Maya with her Math homework one night on a loose white sheet of paper using a Ticonderoga […]
Michelle Lugalia-Hollon Reads Warsan Shire’s “Conversations About Home (at the Deportation Centre)”
Now my home is the mouth of a shark, now my home is the barrel of a gun. I’ve been working from home this week listening to and editing the recordings from the Platicás project. At the same time, I’m revisiting old recordings we did for the Gemini Ink podcast. This is one of my […]