March 1, 2022

The Tuesday Night drawing group of Santa Fe drew both in person and on Zoom at the new Argos Gallery/Studio location. They arranged a hybrid real/virtual drawing session because we are still coming out of Covid. I drew from El Paso.

• John Tollett drew live, while I drew the same poses online from Zoom.

I drew on a quick pose after the session, and created something more confusing:

Quick drawing

I added to it after the session ended

I continued to draw on it

and took this photo

The scan of the final drawing --

the image is more convoluted

CASA ORTIZ

Marco Sanchez had a great opening on Friday, March 4th, at Casa Ortiz in Socorro, Texas, next to El Paso:

Marco Sanchez standing in front of his huge print

at his opening at Casa Ortiz

Marco Sanchez donated this 8 x 8 inch print

to the Bucket Exhibitions project

I also saw prints from Brian Holt

Diego Robot

runs Casa Ortiz

Los Federicos --

"El Federico" from Austin (left)

"Don" Federico from El Paso

Los Federicos meet in Austin

in 2017

Cimi and Blaster

painted a new mural 

in downtown El Paso

THOUGHT: If children can't hold a pencil and write, will they be able to draw?

“‘Children are not coming into school with the hand strength and dexterity they had 10 years ago,’ said Sally Payne, the head paediatric occupational therapist at the Heart of England foundation NHS Trust. ‘Children coming into school are being given a pencil but are increasingly not be[ing] able to hold it because they don’t have the fundamental movement skills.

‘To be able to grip a pencil and move it, you need strong control of the fine muscles in your fingers. Children need lots of opportunity to develop those skills.’”