Clearing Webs

Made some time to sketch

Remember this? Andy took the boys to the park last night and I made about an hour and a half to re-peruse a figure drawing book and do a quick study. It's one I did before. Felt good once again to do something. I'd like to find/make more time for figure studies to work on getting those crazy proportions down.

Here's the one from a couple years ago (on the left) next to the quick one from last night (on the right).


I think I got the motion of the figure better the first time but the proportions better this time. I like the contrast better in the first. It's obviously more finished than last nights. The point is to get better but I'm more and more frustrated by the lack of time. Do I study and pray or bathe the boys? Do I draw or teach Gideon? Do I clean the house or take Gid to art class? Do I nap or blog? Do I shower or eat? Eh, such is the stage of life we're in and it forces me more and more to think of discipline, that virtue I so lack and that God's convicting me of more and more lately. There's not much power or freedom w/out discipline.

On another note, Andy & the boys and I went to a hot springs on a river about an hour away this last Saturday. Here are some pics.

My sweet, sweet family. Can't get enough of those guys.


How can you beat sitting in hot spring water surrounded by mountain views, listening to the flow of a nearby river?


Does anybody else want to just bite that boy's cheeks?


And on yet another note, this is what happens when one pauses in making pancakes to use the restroom and leave three little Perkins boys alone together in the kitchen. Don't worry, they were wholly obedient in not touching any of the stuff I'd been using to cook. They got out completely new cooking materials for their endeavor. If only they'd thought of a bowl.




Oh, and I gave feverish (and now bazooka-free) Ike ibuprofen and put him down for a nap. We'll see how he's doing when he wakes.