30 Drawings of September, Week 2

Day 8

“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”

Drawn 9/8/2011


Day 9

“Curiosity is the engine driving a good education.”

Drawn 9/7/2016


Day 10

“The Conversation”

Christy, Stacy and Julia at Moon Wolf Cafe, Richardson, TX.

Drawn 9/9/2026


Day 11

Drawn 9/11/2012


Day 12

“Choices are the hinges of destiny.”

Drawn 9/1/2016


Day 13

“Plans are only good intentions unless the immediately degenerate into hard work.”

Drawn 9/5/2016


Day 14

Ms Mermaid and Friends

Digital drawing – Drawn 2026 on Autodesk Sketch


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30 Drawings of September, week 1

Day 1

“Change how you SEE and SEE how you change”

Zen proverb (a variation was made popular by Wayne Dyer – “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” )

Drawn 9/12/2025


Day 2

“Things average out: if you think too much of yourself, others won’t.” – Folk aphorism
I looked the quote up just now to get the right source and this is what they told me. hahaha, I’m famous!


Day 3

“The only benefit you get from judging others is a brief distraction from your own life.”
Drawn today, 9/3/2026

Anonymous


Day 4

“Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going to far.”

quote by French artist, poet, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau


Day 5

In DFW on the way to North Carolina
She couldn’t get the water bottle open so I did it for her then I drew her.

Drawn 9/12/2011


Day 6

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home. But unlike charity, it should end there.”

Drawn 9/19/2012


Day 7

“What does labor want?
More schools, less jails;
More books, less guns;
More learning, less vice;
More Justice, less revenge;
In fact, more opportunities to cultivate our better nature.”

Samuel Gompers, President of the AFL, 1893


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31 Drawings of August, week 4 and 5

Day 22

“Education is what remains after you have forgotten what one has learned in school.”

Drawn 8/18/2009


Day23

“If at first you do succeed, try something harder.”

Drawn 8/22/2011


Day 24

‘Sunbathing at Stretchmark Beach 2’

Digital Drawing


Day 25

‘Virus #2 – She wanted to go outside.’ – digital drawing
Drawn during the pandemic


Day 26

“Failure builds character, success reveals it.”

Drawn 8/20/2011


Day 27

“Nothing has a stronger psychological influence on children than the unlived life of the parent.”

Drawn 8/25/2011


Day 28

“There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us,
To talk about the rest of us.”

Drawn 8/22/2012


Day 29

“Christ rode on an ass but now asses ride on Christ.”

Drawn 8/28/2026


Day 30

Polly the Pregnant Mermaid

Drawn 2026 – Digital Drawing using Adobe Fresco


Day 31

“The secret of happiness is Freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”

Drawn today 8/31/2026


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31 Drawings of August, weeks 2 and 3

I have been crazy busy with an overnight trip to Houston that turned into 4 days then 3 days of 2 of our grandsons staying with us. As a result I started posting from my ipad, where I don’t have any of my napkins stored, but I do have a ton of digital drawings I’ve done over the years. So digital drawings it’s been for the past week or two.


‘Mother and Child’

‘The Singer’

‘Oh oh’


‘Sunbather on Stretchmark Beach’


‘The Big Kick’

‘The Big Run’

31 Drawings of August, week 1

Day 1

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contacct with a new idea.”

Drawn 7/30/2009


Day 2

“Anger is only one letter short of danger.”

Drawn 8/15/2011


Day 3

“Many people will lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.”

Drawn 8/16/2011


Day 4

“How we do admire the wisdom of those who come to us for advice.”

Drawn 8/20/2001


Day 5

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

Drawn 8/3/2010


Day 6

“Communication: The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug.”

Drawn 8/18/2015


Day 7

“Communication: Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can’t hear what you are saying.”

Drawn 8/12/2015


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