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Photographers may Disagree with Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Drawing Quotes to Speak to the Artist in You)

Frame—Drawing in Process. — Frame, Drawing in Progress, Hendricks©2023

Yesterday was my seventieth birthday, and I am beginning my third year of retirement, I have one bold request.

As a gift to me, could you subscribe to this blog?

ArtChangesLives(Dot)Com is owned by me and started in grad school almost two decades ago. Subscribing to my blog will help the blog’s rank on Google and other search engines. I hope it will become a place for people to share their thoughts while creating artwork … Meaning any of the arts.
I don’t know if I intend to show or sell my work commercially, but I am heading that way.
Thank you to the artists who agreed to let me link their sites to this site. Most of these individuals are friends.
Art has a vital power to promote understanding of one’s self and the world and provides a path for an artist to self-realize and connect with the known unknown.
It is a big ask, but could you subscribe to this site? I’d appreciate it.
BTW, my 70th birthday was fabulous, hearing from friends and family and spending it with family.

Looking at a blank canvas.

I’m starting a new drawing that seems to resemble currency.

A drawing begins — 0718 – 2023-dollarbill, Hendricks©2023

Looking at a Blank Canvas

Lately, thank goodness, that is not a problem at the moment. I am working between two, probably multiple. This one promises to be fun. Trust me, I have had those moments. What to do?
Do something else if you are stuck. Yes, it distracts you and lets your brain refresh. The new else might help the old else find a solution.
One of our students at MCTC(Minneapolis College) was in a class my mentor and friend, Felix Ampah, taught. I was told the student sat in front of a canvas, and Felix went over and asked if something was wrong. The student blurted out, “I don’t want to ruin it.”
Felix Ahpah asked to have her brush. He took it and made a swash on the canvas, probably not big. Gave his wonderful smile that beamed and said, “Now it is ruined.” Then smiled, and they laughed, and he moved on.“

been-a-minute

Been a Minute, August 11, 2023

Man in the Window, ink, drawing by Bill Hendricks, 2023 — Man in the Window, Hendricks©2023

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;

~ “If” – Rudyard Kipling

I can tell you 101 things that have kept me away from this blog, but with the help of people and, most recently, the Mighty Mo helped with a few more adjustments, I will begin to post more frequently.

I have been organizing the images I can post for the last few days. I have been drawing, exploring various tactile media, and focusing on 3D software for the past two years. I am at the point where I can start showing my work. So my last push is to get the blog up and running again.

Bear with me; you will see more of my work and other posts soon.

Bill : )

Recent Work, 02-19-2016

Bill Hendricks’s current work, artist, images are the most recent work of digitally enhanced images. These could be referred to as either photo impressionistic work or expressionist.

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” ― A.A. Milne (https://bit.ly/3qJnksd)

Icy Morning

Seeing the World Upside

Reflections in a Puddle — 1487816077936, Hendricks©2023

A Long Path

Burst of Color

Wrinkles

Burst of Color 2

Brooklyn Bridge

Flash

Sunday in the Park with BillHendricks — 1540315579381, Hendrick©2022

Symmetry

Wrinkles in Nature

Chaos to Order: Gestalt Theory teaches that we are all pattern seekers trying to define order

Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there’s a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it’s the sense of order that is important in a work of art…
Alfred Brendel http://www.alfredbrendel.com/ Art Quotes

Pattern seekers, us all. Filing and ordering… Trying to make sense. Many answers, but are the questions correct?

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Photographers may Disagree with Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Looking at a blank canvas.