This is heartwarming Brad, and here are some horses from me 🐎🏇🎠🐴🐪. I realise the last is a camel, but for some reason, it appeared as an option when I searched for a horse emoji so…..
I love this idea of repetition bringing discovery even when it doesn't bring improvement. I've been paying attention to synchronicities this week. And I was just enchanted yesterday by the line in Catherine Ryan Hyde's newest book where the professor says to his student, "Being a person takes practice." And now you've said something similar, "I was actually just practicing being a person."
Found this via Emily Charlotte Powell, and so glad I did. What a delight! As someone who grew up drawing but got scared by real life and gave it up ... and someone who is now at age 55 thinking about restarting an art practice ... AND a bona fide horse girl who rides twice a week, this post checked all the boxes and has me grinning. Love it!
Just caught up with this. It’s wonderful. When I visited the Georgia O’Keeffe museum last year (recommend that and ghost ranch), I heard her say this on a film. It was heartening that she didn’t consider herself the best painter and that being a person is the thing.
‘I can imagine myself being a much better painter and no one paying any attention to me at all. But it happens that the things that I’ve been doing have been in touch with my time so people have liked it. But I could have been much better and nobody noticed it.Much better, I’ll say, as a painter. You see a painter is one thing and a person in a way is another thing.’
Thank you for ANOTHER installment of the ENTHUSIAST! Your persistence and determination inspires me and it comes at a time that I really needed to be inspired. Failure to the left of me...Failure to the right of me...I shall put it behind me and keep trying!!!!
What an ingenious piece Brad! I was compelled to tread it aloud to my husband while we’re driving to our son, Brad’s house today! When we get there, I just might read it aloud to him too!! I will be subscribing when I have a minute. Thank you for the ways you connect with us.
This is so fantastic. I love drawing horses and committed to learning to draw them when I was like 8. It was hard! But my malleable 8 year old brain could handle it. It’s a whole other skill as an adult haha.
Lovely post! Always so refreshing and encouraging. Thank you, Brad, for gently supporting us to keep trying and showing up, enjoying the process in itself and allowing fun and play to be an integral part of it :)
What a delight. Please keep drawing horses. (Also, your 100 horses would make a wonderful Zine once they’re no longer on display!)
Oh that's a really cool idea! Thanks for the kind words and brilliant nudge. Will have to credit you when I make the zine!
This is heartwarming Brad, and here are some horses from me 🐎🏇🎠🐴🐪. I realise the last is a camel, but for some reason, it appeared as an option when I searched for a horse emoji so…..
EMILY! The camel is perfect. Fitting for this project since many of my horses did have odd humps.
I thought you might like the camel! 😁
Let the horses run!
Stay wild and free, my friend!
Love this! Thank you!
Next up: 100 Lawnmowers. A tribute. haha. Grateful for you! You're a legend!
I love this idea of repetition bringing discovery even when it doesn't bring improvement. I've been paying attention to synchronicities this week. And I was just enchanted yesterday by the line in Catherine Ryan Hyde's newest book where the professor says to his student, "Being a person takes practice." And now you've said something similar, "I was actually just practicing being a person."
Found this via Emily Charlotte Powell, and so glad I did. What a delight! As someone who grew up drawing but got scared by real life and gave it up ... and someone who is now at age 55 thinking about restarting an art practice ... AND a bona fide horse girl who rides twice a week, this post checked all the boxes and has me grinning. Love it!
If my wife wakes up to multiple horse paintings I’m just going to say “it’s Brad, he made me do it.”
HAHA! The best. Hari, you have my permission to use me as an excuse. GO! GO! GO! Cheering for you.
Just caught up with this. It’s wonderful. When I visited the Georgia O’Keeffe museum last year (recommend that and ghost ranch), I heard her say this on a film. It was heartening that she didn’t consider herself the best painter and that being a person is the thing.
‘I can imagine myself being a much better painter and no one paying any attention to me at all. But it happens that the things that I’ve been doing have been in touch with my time so people have liked it. But I could have been much better and nobody noticed it.Much better, I’ll say, as a painter. You see a painter is one thing and a person in a way is another thing.’
Georgia O’Keeffe
Love your persistence and also all of those different horses. It’s as though each of them has a special personality apart from the others.
This post is sheer brilliance.
Thank you for ANOTHER installment of the ENTHUSIAST! Your persistence and determination inspires me and it comes at a time that I really needed to be inspired. Failure to the left of me...Failure to the right of me...I shall put it behind me and keep trying!!!!
What an ingenious piece Brad! I was compelled to tread it aloud to my husband while we’re driving to our son, Brad’s house today! When we get there, I just might read it aloud to him too!! I will be subscribing when I have a minute. Thank you for the ways you connect with us.
Absolutely loved it! So beautiful, real and cute! Literally laughed on the unicorn's diary entry!
This is so fantastic. I love drawing horses and committed to learning to draw them when I was like 8. It was hard! But my malleable 8 year old brain could handle it. It’s a whole other skill as an adult haha.
Lovely post! Always so refreshing and encouraging. Thank you, Brad, for gently supporting us to keep trying and showing up, enjoying the process in itself and allowing fun and play to be an integral part of it :)
Wonderful attempts! "Absolute attention is prayer," said Simone Weil. I think you nailed it! And I love the animation. Beautiful!