Jen Clausen

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Introduction I am a painter who needs to draw more. My sketchbook and I have had a fairly estranged relationship, so I'm trying to get into the habit of drawing more regularly. I like the idea of drawing things around me: everyday things that I see all the time, but somehow tend to miss unless I specifically take time to sit and look at them (i.e. draw them). Drawing has a strangely enjoyable, somewhat addictive quality to it. It sucks me in to the point that other things (like sense of time or remembering that I have something on the stove) tend to melt away. It also seems that when I'm concentrating so hard on one thing, my brain takes the opportunity to fill the silence with thoughts (sometimes mundane things, and sometimes the deep dark monster-y stuff). On this blog I will share the drawings and the accompanying thoughts (some of them, anyway). Thanks for visiting.