{"id":798,"date":"2013-04-01T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/01\/drawing-of-st-joseph-statue-pencil-11x14-or-stop-worrying-and-make-something\/"},"modified":"2013-04-01T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T17:58:00","slug":"drawing-of-st-joseph-statue-pencil-11x14-or-stop-worrying-and-make-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/01\/drawing-of-st-joseph-statue-pencil-11x14-or-stop-worrying-and-make-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing of St Joseph Statue, Pencil, 11&#8243;x14&#8243; (or Stop Worrying and Make Something)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/118156346472653949126\/NewsFromTheStudio?authkey=Gv1sRgCPW4vtT3yIvxFQ#5861939394019963586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-8DTc99_t-ac\/UVnK0ittssI\/AAAAAAAACSM\/39mmra0uiYY\/s288\/48.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" style=\"margin:5px\" \/><\/a><br \/>Drawing practice today. A book I recently checked out at the library made the distinction between drawing and sketching. This is a drawing.<br \/>I hope St Joseph will forgive me for giving him a disproportionately large head. <br \/>One thing which I have learned recently is that it is worth it to keep practicing a skill even if I don&#8217;t have an application in mind. An example is from the realm of music: I recently got asked to help out with playing guitar for some prayer services. For quite awhile, I have been learning to play guitar just for fun. I&#8217;m really glad that I practiced as much as I did because now that skill is ready to be used. <br \/>So, as far as visual art goes, I think it&#8217;s worth it to practice drawing or sketching or whatever visual art skill even if you don&#8217;t have an immediate application. I find that when I start worrying about the applications, I get all tied up in knots; whereas, when I just sit down and MAKE SOMETHING, I feel at peace. Someone said to me recently that when the student is ready, the teacher appears. I am hoping that a corollary of that applies to visual art: When the skill is ready, the application appears. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing practice today. A book I recently checked out at the library made the distinction between drawing and sketching. This is a drawing.I hope St Joseph will forgive me for giving him a disproportionately large head. One thing which I have learned recently is that it is worth it to keep practicing a skill even if I don&#8217;t have an&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/01\/drawing-of-st-joseph-statue-pencil-11x14-or-stop-worrying-and-make-something\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drawing of St Joseph Statue, Pencil, 11&#8243;x14&#8243; (or Stop Worrying and Make Something)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}