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By Danny Gregory

An ongoing attempt to keep a record of when, what, and how I'm drawing (and/or experiencing art).

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    It would be enormously helpful for my new book if you and your pals could post reviews and ratings of the book on Amazon.
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    Your pal,
    Danny Gregory

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    On January 1, 2009 Suana said, “A wonderful idea! I wish you much creativity and inspiration!” in A plan.

    On December 31, 2008 4ojos said, “5 years is quite a long time. Keep on drawing/posting, Danny” in A plan.

    On December 30, 2008 Thomasina said, “This news makes me sad, but you are a wise man to make this decision. Good luck!” in A plan.

    Just Try It

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    Jack's been fairly adamant about it since last summer. He wants to learn the drums. I suggested the harmonica, the ukulele, the Jew's harp, but he won't yield. I point out that we have an apartment and neighbors, that drummers are the least cool guys in the band, that you have to wear a sweat band... he won't be budged.
    So this afternoon

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    So I've mentioned here before that Jack, my boy, 9, good, handsome, smart, got into his skull that he just had to become a rock 'n' roll drummer and, despite my attempts to dissuade him, has been taking lessons and hammering away on most horizontal surfaces with his drum sticks whenever possible.
    A couple of weeks ago, however, his pal, Lucas,

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    Gill McCowen of Journal Craft Inspiration has published an interview I did with her recently.

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    "An Illustrated Life has been picked by Amazon as one of the seven best books of the month! Yay!

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    A nice way to support Barack Obama. Drawings are submitted, auctioned, and the proceeds contributed. A few of us in NY discussed a similar idea but were too disorganized to pull it off. Fortunately these guys did. Some of the participants are also contributors to my new book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers

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    Past Matters

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    I didn't even know I had a great aunt Greta (twice removed). But I was happy to take the call from her lawyer, the executor of her estate. Now I am the lucky owner of a 5,000 square foot studio loft not far from our home.
    It is a quiet space but when I open the floor to ceiling French doors, the birds' twittering can be heard from Central Park below. The ceilings are high, about 18 feet and, but for a few graceful,

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    Over the past month, I have been so excited to go through the mail. Almost every day, nestled among the Christmas catalogs, there'd be a special envelope or two -- painted, calligraphed, covered with rubber stamps, all responses to the illustrated letter contest

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    A record of my exploration into all aspects of drawing, illustrated journaling, creativity, and the inspiring aspects of art. By the author of "Everyday Matters," "The Creative License", and "An Illustrated Life" and other books.


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    Everyday Matters

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    I've just marked five years of keeping this blog. The milestone prompted me to think about how much time blogging, corresponding, promoting, writing,self-justifying and so on have absorbed of my free time. It has been a wonderful experience, but the very thing that started me on this road has suffered the most -- namely, time for my own drawing.
    So I have decided, for an indeterminate period, to take a break from scanning and posting and uploading and monitoring and responding (and I've been pretty lax at even at doing that recently). I will be using that time instead to draw and paint and write and think and learn and be.
    I shall keep a bit of a record of how that's progressing on the right hand side of this site, a mini blog within a slumbering blog where I can ruminate on what I am doing and learning with no intention to make a mark on anything but the pages of my journal.
    Eventually, I shall probably return, recharged, refreshed, and newly resolved.
    In the meantime, feel free to read the 842 posts that precede this one or any of these books. Or better yet, join me in getting off the computer and doing some drawing instead.
    Until we meet again, I remain,
    your pal,
    Danny Gregory

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    Recent Matters

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    First reviews

    Dear Danny, I've been looking through your book. over the past several days and it's a gem. It's a delight. I had great fun checking out the various ways artists approach those blank, bound sheets of paper. My three...

    Cindy

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    Teaching

    For the first time, I am teaching a regular class on sketchbook journaling and, it is some thing I really look forward to each week. I have an awful lot of students (25 or so) and our classroom is...

    Catching up

    The very first copy of my new book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers finally arrived and it is gorgeous. First off, it is ridiculously thick, 266 pages jam-packed with journal...

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