What's in a face?




Humm....two eyes, a nose, a mouth, cheeks. But a better question is...what's in the expression? Some faces are blank, and seem to have no soul. Some look dreamy, and others look sad. But, if you draw a face right now, I will bet it will express exactly how you are feeling.

I was so tired last night, working on school projects with the kids, laundry, dishes, errands. I thought I would never get a chance to work in my sketch journal. But, I had just enough time to make this face, and I am so glad I did, because it showed me how I see faces, what I see in them, and how I was feeling when I drew it.

You think sometimes that the things you create don't matter, but they do. Even your mistakes, your experiments, and your do-overs. They are each little lessons, individual experiences. I keep mine now. I value them because I'm learning not to make perfection my goal. I know that the things we love the most are things that are not perfect. Why can't we just accept that in ourselves and not be so critical? I think I know why. I think it's because we are afraid that someone will see our flaws. Ha! Everybody else already does! They just don't remind us every minute about it, like we remind ourselves!

Perfection is not possible. If you strive to be perfect, all you'll achieve is a collection of re-do's, or a big trash pile. If you do altered art, you know that trash is really treasure, it's all in how you look at it. I think we should honor our reject pile!





My pile exists in this basket. I have a lot of old stuff and some new stuff in here, and I recycle it. There is always a use for this stuff!


Oh...and lookie!
My daughter's crane count is up to 16 now! Only 984 to go!