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“There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.” -Robert Frost, 1874-1963
I hope everyone had a wonderfully peaceful Christmas. Mine was, well, busy, and a bit stressful. It’s one of the great mysteries to me. We rush about, shopping, trying to make sure everyone gets the right gifts, preparing elaborate meals that we don’t normally eat and gathering to eat way more than we need to. All the while, stressing over something that truly should not be stressful. The truest meaning of Christmas should provide us with a time of quiet thought and resourceful inward-looking. It should be that time when we don’t just slow down, but we stop, enjoy and savor those few quiet moments we have throughout the year with our families and loved ones.
I did this caricature of Robert Frost a few days ago, but haven’t found the time to post it until now. He had such a great face, one of peaks and valleys, texture and shapes, not unlike his poetry. I enjoyed sculpting his face with my brush, working those wonderfully bushy eyebrows that seem to act as lean-to sheds for his eyes. His was a face of a life well lived, time well spent perfecting a craft. Something that seems to have left us in these modern times. Let us slow down and find the time to perfect our own crafts and live our lives a little more meaningful, a little less stressful, a lot more peaceful and joyful. -Enjoy!
Perfect sentiment, beautifully stated, Don.
I have a book of Frost poems illustrated with paintings by various artists that I look at every year. You’ve reminded me to get it out and enjoy it again this year.
Wonderful caricature.
Wishing you a peaceful and joyous new year!
Liz
Love the curves and lines on Frost! Thanks to you, I have started adding faces to names which has long been a direct/indirect influence on me.
Don, hope you have a joyous creative 2010!
Good to see another post from you–and such a thoughtful one too. You are so right about the stress and the running around–and not to put too fine a point on it, it seems like most of the work of the season falls to the beleaguered woman! (although I am a lucky one..I do get a fair amount of help from my dh!) It’s true –we just about kills ourselves trying to celebrate Christmas. It’s almost funny. What happened to a simple turkey and ONE present! lol.
Give me those days.
Love your Robert Frost. He looks appropriately rumpled. Your work always seems quite a lot deeper than the word caricature would imply.
Hi Don, hope you’ve been well. Love these last two cutie pies.
Great work and my first impression of this was great sketch of that guy from 60 minutes.
Good luck and keep up the apreciated work.