From the “Practice What I Preach” file:
Many of you know of my article and video on doing something creative everyday to keep your skills sharp.
This is another example of how I try to adhere to that as well:
My wife is a big “The Bachelor/Bachelorette” fan. I don’t care for the show….AT ALL. But to have some quality time with her, on the couch together we were: her with her show and I with my faithful sketchpad (to rescue me from the agony of that show!).
Here’re a few sketches I cranked out, from the light-hearted to the weird!
( …and in case you missed these previous sketches, check ‘em out>> )
My lovely wife, Monica!
"The Ape"
The "Chicken Man"
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LOL!!
Devin and Tony, I too married a woman that doesn’t possess a taste for the finer “wines” of entertainment.
We’ve both come a long way, so I’m grateful.
Sometimes I’ll just grab a couple of magazines, a sketch pad, and a provide minimum level of attention to what is being televised…making sure I know enough about what is seen to give feedback, but not enough in becoming drunk with a cheap predictable romance comedy opinion.
Bachelor and Real Desperate Housewives…I’m so sorry you guys have to suffer through that? The humanity!
First of all, Gimel, thank you for that. I need to stay on the path.
Secondly, Tony: it seems I usually lose after asking “can we watch something else?”. The Real Housewives has been my nemesis. It was just last night I had to face it and decided to go upstairs instead. I think I will follow your lead. Thanks for all that you do.
I taught my last class of the month last night and the requirement for the class was to simply, “make progress.”
To those who showed the most improvement, I awarded a caricature picture framed next to the actual photo.
This was the incentive given at the beginning of the class, Jan. 06, 2010.
Almost immediately, that was forgotten.
Fast forward, Jan. 27 2010 and it’s time to see who would receive the coveted prize and immediately the begging, the pleading, the excuses began to flood in of why they didn’t make progress.
All they had to do was practice and work out what I showed them, all they had to do was become better than they were, so in essence, they were their only “competition.”
I was going to look at their sketch pad and discern progress, not perfection, just a steady artistic progress.
Many of them played, joked, whinned, distracted (causing others to stumble)throughout the class.
Now its time to reap the benefits of their decisions and immediately the jokes stopped, the playing stopped, the loose behavior stopped, and all their work was being weighed either for them or against them and they could do nothing about it.
After I gave the reward to a kid that I thought deserved it…their faces dropped and the reality of neglecting all of my instruction, time, inspiration, motivation, and experience was all over them.
Brother Tony, so it will be with our Lord when we meet Him.
Endure in what you are doing, sir…thank you so much for showing the sketches (you know that’s my addiction), and to everyone else work-out your salvation, perfect your craft, and look unto the Lord’s return without shame.
Your hand is awesome, breh.