Patty’s Memorial Day page
I was motivated for this heading by a new video by Urban Sketcher, illustrator, and painter, James Gurney, who has produced several teaching videos. His work is well-known. His use of the expression of working in the wild implies to me of working in the world as we experience it rather than working from staged set-ups, posed models, or photographs. I enjoyed his most recent video this week, “Portraits in the Wild,” where James draws and paints at a fair, at a horse farm, and at a concert. This kind of work is exactly what we do, but, Oh! James does his work so brilliantly!!!
Several of us have been making journey daybook pages informally by ourselves and in community with other alums. We do this at the Florida Women’s Reception Center with the inmates. Several people meet informally in Gainesville. A few of us who live in and around Cedar Key have met the past few weeks on Sunday afternoons at 3 PM at my house. On Memorial Day we worked on the porch of a new on-the-dock restaurant, “83 degrees West,” where we enjoyed some delicious snacks as we drew and painted on the porch. Last week we visited another restaurant, Steamers. Three pages from these days are posted here. I have also posted several pages that have been made by alums over the past month. If any JDB Alums want to join us on Sundays, please call me so that we can expect you: 352.543.6127
Lois’s page showing Sophia
Milli page of Sophia
Peggy’s page at 82 West
Barbara’s page from the FWRC
