Jun/090
I don’t know about you but when I was in kindergarten and first grade they’d set out boxes of objects for us to sort through and put into different piles based on different qualities. A box of keys, for example. Man, that was a great learning experience. And fun, too. Making piles is awesome!
I had a whole bunch of National Geographics for drawing reference. They defy organization because they cover so many different things in each issue, and of course chronological sequence is useless when I am looking for a picture of something specific. In the past I’d been reluctant to destroy them but I decided they were just taking up precious space. And so with gleeful abandon I began cutting them apart and for a week the living room floor was covered with scraps of magazine and chunks of dried glue (the older issues used this terrible glue along with staples
Anyway it was a week of fingers scraped by rusty staples and piles and piles of slippery magazine paper but it was totally worth it because I now have a small library of reference. So now if someone requests, say, a picture of an Uncle Sam dinosaur, or toad, I can be all like okay! Here you go.
But no more sorting for now. Back to drawing!