Sometimes we go to the beach for a quick vacation. We did that last week. The beach we visited was nice, on Hunting Island, SC.
Unfortunately, I was at a total loss for being able to sketch. Sometimes I just “lose it”. No desire to sketch…or do much of anything. The stuff I was seeing at the beach was uninteresting to me and thus I figured none of it would make for interesting sketches or stories to anybody reading Idle Minutes.
So, I sketched nothing while at the beach. I did take some photos. Perhaps I’ll review them and see if the camera saw anything interesting…sometimes it does while I don’t.
Anyway, in lieu of sketches from Hunting Island, here’s a beach scene from Italy. I know. You’re thinking “huh? from coastal South Carolina to Italy? How odd. What gives Mr. Don?
Well, click back through the last few posts and it will become self evident.
I’ll be back on track with vacation sketches at the end of the month and some stuff between now and then. We’re taking a short trip again to Maine. Surely, oh surely! my mind’s eye will become interested in sketching in Maine.
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Seems to me you did the right thing in the face of your drawing funk. I’ve tried to work through those by drawing something anyway, and ended up taking myself from emotional gray to black. The drawing always comes out stinky, which in turn makes me sure that I’m the talentless toad I’d always known I was, etc. etc.
On the other hand, this little beach scene is enough to cheer anyone. I like its breeze-tossed look.
Thanks, you’re dead on Karen.
Sketching, or drawing, or painting, or woodworking…or creating in general, when you just don’t have it in you…is tough.
It’s mentally dangerous, as you’ve mentioned.
One feels gray already, then attempts to create something. It’s a big gamble. If you create crap then you end up feeling a whole lot worse, having dug your hole deeper.
Chances in this gamble are 50-50 that you’ll create crap indeed…hating yourself that you can’t do better than creating crap. (When, in reality, you certainly can create very nice, beautiful and ingenious things when you’re mind is well.)
However, if you try anyway, and end up on the positive side of the gamble, it will serve to boost you into a creative mode which will almost always end up making you feel much, much better. Thus getting you out of your funk.
At times I’m willing to take the gamble…at others not. One learns when not is best
Your ACEOs brighten my day, too, Don.
Good luckon the road to Maine. I love
Maine so much that I had considered
retiring there, but then I remembered
deep mud in the spring and 30 below
zero in the winter. So visiting during
good weather is better– those times
have given me memories I treasure.
Hi Annie,
Good to hear from you!
We’re headed up there the first week in September as it turns out. My wife informed me this evening that the “end of August” actually means the first week in September.
Regardless, I’ll do my best to bring back some good sketches.
I had a feeling it was a nice place to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there
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