Tag Archives: drawing

What Drawing Does

Posted on September 26, 2019 by Nancy Wait

While I’ve heard people say, “Oh, I can’t draw to save my life,” or, “I can’t even draw a straight line,” I’ve never heard anyone say, “I can’t connect things with each other,” because of course we do, all the time, albeit unconsciously. Continue reading →

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The Nancy Who Drew Buildings*

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Nancy Wait

I got into rendering buildings because one night I drew a candleholder. Continue reading →

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Personal Items: Desk

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Nancy Wait

Now that I’ve settled on calling the sequel, “The Nancy Who Drew the Way Home,” I started to think about what the concept of home means to me now. Continue reading →

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Down Down Down

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Nancy Wait

…down-down-down, back into the darkness I went with my paints and brushes. To paint the dark. To see what I’d left behind. Continue reading →

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To Look Within

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Nancy Wait

I write my life to know my life. When I write my life, the inner truth comes out. It’s like when I draw, a barrier disappears. Or fades to the background. And suddenly I’m in touch with this other vibratory field. This other awareness that rises to the surface and makes itself known. Continue reading →

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Drawing Cured A Stomach Ache

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Nancy Wait

Did you know that drawing can cure stomach aches? Me either! But apparently it does. At first I thought I might have had a case of the New Year Blahs. Except that would have been out of character for me. The other idea that came was too awful – a sudden onset of gluten intolerance. I would hate that. Continue reading →

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A Writer’s Despair is an Artist’s Delight

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Nancy Wait

The hand once thrown up in despair, is now ready to catch an idea, should it float through the air ~~~ Continue reading →

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Brooklyn Buildings 10th Street

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Nancy Wait

I love these buildings. They’re on Tenth Street between 5th and 6th (Brooklyn) and I’ve walked by them so many times. But not till recently when I decided to start drawing the neighborhood did I stop and really LOOK at them. And then of course I thought what a wonderful picture they’d make. Continue reading →

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Letting It Come Through

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Nancy Wait

I can now paint and draw small, sketchbook-size pictures of the world around me because now I see how focusing on the small particulars of the outer visible world, can also reflect a deeper insight to the world within. Continue reading →

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The Cabin in the Clearing

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Nancy Wait

Whenever I looked out the window I saw two scenes, the one from the present, and this other one, so obviously from the past. From Brooklyn as it once was. Continue reading →

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