I love this post by Sara Genn who writes about the phrase "Do It Now" (DIN), something Paul McCartney's father said to him many times.
If you don't do it now when you have the dream or vision, you probably won't do it. Procrastination quickly rears its ugly head and alters the dream or vision of something delightful into something not worth the time to do. You lose your energy from the ideation that sparked it.
After reading the article, you can find the song Paul McCartney wrote and recorded about DIN on YouTube.
https://painterskeys.com/din/
For fun, I've drawn one of my own photos (yes, I was dressed in a clown outfit) and added a wild and crazy background to accompany it for today's practice effort. As part of sketching the piece, it was split into four sections with two opposing diagonal lines. In terms of color choices, I've worked with color gradations for some shape sections. Can you believe, there are five major shapes in this effort? There really are -- circles, squares, trapezoids, triangles and spirals. I think the substrate is Biengfang Watercolor Paper (140 lb.). The materials used were Ohuhu markers, Micron 01 pigment ink pen, some red Stickles glitter glue for the nose, and a white Posca pen (for white dots on the face and to highlight eyes) and a yellow one (for yellow dots in the center of the flowers on the hat). There was no intention in working on this piece other than to have fun...and based on how it looks, I'd say well done!. One thing I learned is that blending with the Ohuhus i
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