Category Archives: Learning

Redo of a view

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Sarah Sullivan

One of my major learning goals for this blog is to learn to use image to tell a story. Although I liked yesterday’s sketch well enough to post, I was bothered by it. I felt that it confused the story … Continue reading →

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A low key Monday

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Sarah Sullivan

It was a relaxing morning. We sat around in parallel, each doing our own thing on this Monday in the midst of the winter holiday. In my case, I was learning to use the Apple pencil with the iPad and Procreate, … Continue reading →

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Can’t stop thinking

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Sarah Sullivan

I notice that I have a theme running off and on through my blog entries, the theme of exploring the ways people work to understand elusive ideas. This sketch goes back to this theme again. This time I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Problems worthy of attack

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Sarah Sullivan

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. This small poem from the Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet, Piet Hein (1905- 1996) goes a long way to explain why people want to figure things out. It feels so good to get … Continue reading →

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Thinking

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Sarah Sullivan

  I kept noticing the look of thinking as this young woman worked. Her expression changed as she wrote and rewrote, as though she were in an engaging conversation. At times she appeared questioning, knowing, disappointed, happy, or perplexed. This showed … Continue reading →

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Catching up on work

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Sarah Sullivan

What if everyone liked their work so much that if they needed to rest a bit from the rigors of vacationing that they could do this by retreating to their work? This possibility reverses the typical relationship between work and holiday and … Continue reading →

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KenKen in a different light

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Sarah Sullivan

  This is the same sketch as yesterday’s ‘KenKen’ but developed further. I had been admiring Rosin Cure’s use of white space in her sketches and was practicing including more white space in mine. However, in yesterday’s sketch it gave the look of daylight … Continue reading →

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