NO ART TODAY but art inspired still

Just a quiet sort of Saturday in Sydney. No drawing plans. But the previous couple of weeks have been full of drawing and careful observation. If I'm not drawing, I'm observing life through the eyes of a potential sketch. I now look at cars like, yes, I can draw a car that looks like a car. My cars used to look like the cars you drew in year 1 or 2 at school, and I used to think - "oh I don't/can't draw cars. Now, because I have challenged myself to move outside of my comfort zone, I draw things that previously I would have shyed away from. Same as when playing the piano. I used to mainly play in the keys of C major or A minor because that was easy. Now I go to more uncomfortable keys... just to challenge myself. I volunteer for things, because it's too easy to to not volunteer. I almost unconsciously say, never say never. Give things a go. And so it goes with drawing. Portraits are my comfort zone. Portraits in profile used to be always with the nose facing the left. OK- so now reverse it. Get out of the rut. Yes, do draw hands. Do draw feet. Study knees. Know the body. I used to think I knew what the body looked like, and I can understand now why Leonardo da Vinci used to take home corpses to disect- just so he could understand fully the body. There is a drawing exhibit on at the art gallery (NSW) of French drawing coming soon. Looking forward to that. Tomorrow afternoon when Bryce, Laura, Gem and Grace go to watch the Swans beat Carlton, I will draw. Perhaps paint too. And be inspired by the art I see in the blogs of others.