31 Drawings of August, week 4 and 5

Day 22

“Education is what remains after you have forgotten what one has learned in school.”

Drawn 8/18/2009


Day23

“If at first you do succeed, try something harder.”

Drawn 8/22/2011


Day 24

‘Sunbathing at Stretchmark Beach 2’

Digital Drawing


Day 25

‘Virus #2 – She wanted to go outside.’ – digital drawing
Drawn during the pandemic


Day 26

“Failure builds character, success reveals it.”

Drawn 8/20/2011


Day 27

“Nothing has a stronger psychological influence on children than the unlived life of the parent.”

Drawn 8/25/2011


Day 28

“There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us,
To talk about the rest of us.”

Drawn 8/22/2012


Day 29

“Christ rode on an ass but now asses ride on Christ.”

Drawn 8/28/2026


Day 30

Polly the Pregnant Mermaid

Drawn 2026 – Digital Drawing using Adobe Fresco


Day 31

“The secret of happiness is Freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”

Drawn today 8/31/2026


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31 Drawings of August, weeks 2 and 3

I have been crazy busy with an overnight trip to Houston that turned into 4 days then 3 days of 2 of our grandsons staying with us. As a result I started posting from my ipad, where I don’t have any of my napkins stored, but I do have a ton of digital drawings I’ve done over the years. So digital drawings it’s been for the past week or two.


‘Mother and Child’

‘The Singer’

‘Oh oh’


‘Sunbather on Stretchmark Beach’


‘The Big Kick’

‘The Big Run’

31 Drawings of August, week 1

Day 1

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contacct with a new idea.”

Drawn 7/30/2009


Day 2

“Anger is only one letter short of danger.”

Drawn 8/15/2011


Day 3

“Many people will lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.”

Drawn 8/16/2011


Day 4

“How we do admire the wisdom of those who come to us for advice.”

Drawn 8/20/2001


Day 5

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

Drawn 8/3/2010


Day 6

“Communication: The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug.”

Drawn 8/18/2015


Day 7

“Communication: Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can’t hear what you are saying.”

Drawn 8/12/2015


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31 Drawings of July, week 4

Day 22

“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”

Drawn 7/26/2016


Day 23

“If I had to live my life again, i’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

Drawn 7/11/2013


Day 24

“Creativity is allowing your self to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

Drawn 7/12/2013


Day 25

“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”

Drawn 7/15/2013


Day 26

“Success in life is founded on making only the right mistakes.”

Drawn on 7/17/2013


Day 27

“There are two mistakes one can make along the road of truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

Drawn 7/18/2013


Day 28

“The best way to sound like you know what you’re talking about is to know what you’re talking about.”

Drawn 7/13/2011


Day 29

“Minds are like Flowers – They only open when the time is right.”

Drawn 7/22/2015


Day 30

“Done is better than perfect.”

Drawn 7/15/2015


Day 31

“A Promise is a cloud, fulfillment is the rain.”

Drawn 7/9/2014


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31 Drawings of July, week 3

Day 15

“Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.”

Drawn 7/19/2010


Day 16

“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.”

Drawn 7/20/2010


Day 17

Jade at Starbucks

Drawn 7/30/2014


Day 18

Jade holding her drawing

Taken 7/30/2014


Day 19

‘Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”

Drawn 7/29/2013


Day 20

“A person finds their identity by identifying.”

Drawn 7/30/2013


Day 21

“Deciding what to remember is how we decide who we are.”

Drawn 7/31/2013


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