time out from the 24/7 baby posts

i want to talk about art, and about how right now i am not drawing
(ok so a little talk about the babies-they are the reason partly i am not drawing)
i been cleaning and such but not drawing
although i am thinking of drawing
what i have been thinking of is how absorbingly interesting it was for me (maybe not for anyone else) to do that small series of drawing that showed the fear of the wind monsters for the adult ducks
specifically what i found interesting is how i could restate the same basic idea..... and have them come out radically different
i found that compelling and fascinating.......enough so that i am going to do that again with a different idea

i also (please don't mind me) want to explore how my work is changing again...... to a very clean graphic book illustration style..... which i do like very much (not that i don't like the big black/white pen & inks which i will also continue to do)
there is something so expectant about the largish areas of just white paper that i like
type can be dropped in there, or imagination can be dropped in there
i think that maybe this project has found it's voice?
could be
i will also lament the lack of drawing time right now
i can feel it bubbling up in me
however i also need this time to not only raise the babies, but to photograph them and document them, and tame them while they learn about their life on the earth
as you all realize, i get incredible joy out of them
on friday, jen and her children came over......we all sat with the babies for over 3 hours
just watching them learn about their world.
the peace was astounding
even the kids at one point felt it
(these kids are extremely active- such is the power of watching new life experience the world for the first time)
when the babies were tired out, we were renewed and refreshed
and i want to draw that

i was reading a book i just got called art & fear i realized from this book that i never abandoned my life as an artist, even when it would have appeared i did......i simply found a way to do art that i could make a living with
even when i had the toiletry company, i was designing product, packaging, advertizing, etc......
all of which brings me to now

the now where i am happily raising baby ducks to learn from, live with, write about, and draw