My LO features marks and a photo from the amazing workshop I just finished called "Spontaneous Mark Making" taught by Pamela Paulsrud and sponsored by Friends of Calligraphy, a San Francisco-area calligraphy guild. The text snippets are from Peter Levitt's website and particularly this excerpt from his book "Fingerpainting the Moon":
Years ago I was told a story in which the painter Paul Klee said, 'When I paint what you know, I bore you. And when I paint what I know, I bore me. So I paint what I don't know.' Isn't that wonderful? Paint or write what you don't know. Create what you have not even begun to suspect. This is risk. It is the freeing intent behind most original work. According to Klee, the means to help our deepest selves make their mark in the world is right here in the tip of our innocent pencil or brush...