Tag: drawing

• Getting organized 

  It’s been a very long time but I finally finished the little five by eight blackbook I’ve been working on for a sketchbook. It ended up being about a 2 year engagement with the thing. I don’t know why it took me so long to fill the damn thing up, but it took the time…

  jerpir

  May 27, 2026

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• Important / Interesting vs. Boring / Bullshit

  Explanation of Above and Below 2026 edition I don’t remember exactly when or why it was brought to my attention but it was. I do know I was still in school at MICA and I also remember who brought it up to me. Eva Wyle, a professor at MCIA, is the individual who first told…

  jerpir

  March 10, 2026

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• Finding Balance (or something like that)

  This is for me, personally. There is a need for balance in life. There are many different aspects to be balanced, and while certain ones are balanced others are simultaneously thrown into imbalance. There is no way I have found for everything in my life to be in accord with everything else. There is a…

  jerpir

  January 22, 2026

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  accountability, anxiety, art, art generation, artist, balance, consumption, control, convenience, creating, creation, creative, creative health, creativity, depression, draw, drawing, drawings, experience, fine art, finite space, generation, generative, goals, health, journal, journaling, junk tv, life, media, mental health, mental labor, mental-health, notes, nothing, physical art, physical labor, sketchbook, sketchbooks, sketching, social media, television, tv, writing

• Avoidance

  I have been avoiding making anything serious for a while now. Hiding from the need to be creative because… why? I have been asking myself this question for months, years, and still have no real or even half way decent answer. I have been hiding in media consumption. Books, games, audiobooks, news articles, social media,…

  jerpir

  December 20, 2025

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• Prompt

  This weeks blog prompt is “What have you been working on?” and it’s really the only one I’ve found relevant to my life. So it’s the first one i’m going to use for an entry. For the past few weeks or so I’ve been working on more bonsai watercolors. There you have it, the shortest…

  jerpir

  October 19, 2025

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• Creativity vs Generativity

  Creativity and Generativity are wildly different concepts and practices. To make something just for the sake of making something without any real thought or passion and / or just to make a quick buck is generativity. One generates a thing for a specific and artless purpose. As they say “trained rats could do that” or…

  jerpir

  October 5, 2025

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  accountability, art, art generation, art kid, art-making, artist, artmaking, books, collection, creating, creation, creative health, creative-writing, creativity, critic, criticism, data, digital art, drawing, experiences, experimental, experimentation, exploration, generation, generative, healing, health, internet, journal, journaling, labor, life, love, mediated experiences, mental labor, mental-health, metadata, mixed media, notes, novels, pen, pen and paper, pencil, pencil and paper, physical art, physical labor, play, printmaking, reading, social media, technology, thank you, time, travel, typing, vacuum, weird, weird art kid, work, work in progress, writing

• Boy howdy

  It has been a long time since I’ve been here doing the thing. It’s been over two months and I’ve barely had time to put pen to paper or fingers to keys. I have been making. Not much. But some. Really, I’ve been reading a massive book and loving it. I have been saying to…

  jerpir

  July 30, 2025

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• A Little Landscape

  Just a little gray-day plein air watercolor. Far from a perfect piece. It’s 8″x5″ of a sketchbook page. I don’t think it’s outstanding in any way but it has a certain kind of poorly-drawn charm to it.

  jerpir

  May 12, 2025

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  art, drawing, PAinting, sketchbooks, sketching, watercolor

• Graphite and Paper

  (A note: I wrote the following out on paper in pencil and this is my best attempt at transcribing it. There is commentary after the transcription.) I really like the feeling of physical mark making. I also love the feeling and sound of a pencil on paperThe words I write end up being mostly completely…

  jerpir

  February 17, 2025

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  art, digital art, drawing, love, PAinting, physical art, printmaking, sketchbooks, sketching, technology

• Pentaptych

  (5 small bonsai) These need some color. However, I don’t really see myself doing all of that. This piece is probably abandoned. Probably. I could get some opaques like some acrylic or gauche and fill in the greenery, maybe a little more in some other areas. I could but also I’m fairly sure I’m out…

  jerpir

  February 8, 2025

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  art, art generation, art-making, artmaking, bonsai, bored, creativity, drawing, mixed media, paint, sketching, watercolor, work, work in progress, writing