judsonwilkerson

  Like many others I grew up watching Bob Ross.  One of his favorite sayings was "there are no mistakes here, just happy accidents.  You can learn to work with anything that happens here."  For me this is the true joy of art.  Does the line you just drew not do exactly what you had in mind?  Take a minute, look at it and see if it has brought to light something you hadn't thought of before.  Perhaps its better than you originally intended.  So rarely does any picture of mine end up exactly as originally pictured in my mind, but the end result is something different or greater than I had planned.  Throughout our daily lives we adhere to the ru

“When all hope was gone, they heeded the counsels of despair. Had they continued to strive, defying their doom, some unforeseen wonder might have occurred. And if it did not, still their glory would have surpassed their failure.” ― Stephen Donaldson, Fatal Revenant    

   "Such is the irony of life," Kruppe proclaimed, raising one pastry-filled hand over his head, "that one learns to distrust the obvious, surrendering instead to insidious suspicion and confused conclusion. But, is Kruppe deceived? Can an eel swim? Hurrah, these seeming muddy waters are home to Kruppe, and his eyes are wide with wonder.” ― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon