Turn One Minute Drawings Into Paintings "My sketchbook serves me as a cookbook when I am hungry. I open it and the least of my sketches can offer me material for work." ~Georges Braque One of my secrets is to use one minute drawings to jumpstart myself into opening my journal and start to sketch. I tell myself I am only going to spend one minute per sketch, six on a page--that's only six minutes of my busy day. The truth is that as soon as I get going, I want to keep on going. Often I am enjoying the process so much that I choose to fiddle with one or more of the drawings to refine them, just for the pleasure of it. Sometimes we have to trick ourselves into having fun. While enroute--on your daily commute to work, as a passenger in the car on the way to the grocery store, at the airport or on an air- plane--make a page of one minute sketches in the small frames format, and one in the open page format. You will be surprised by all the interesting things you notice when you stop to draw what is around you, even in your own neighborhood. When you are done, ask yourself which format most inspires your creativity. Or, perhaps you will enjoy them both, as I do. ¶ Pa g e - A - Day i d e a Art Enroute