The Centrality of Empathy

If someone has empathy, they can overcome

their prejudice and hatred based on ignorance

by unlearning it and adopting new views --

However, you cannot do this if you lack

the necessary empathy in the first place.

It's why the very concept of empathy is

always attacked by the extremist right --

Thursday Art Date With Rain -- "Twisted"

I'm linking this post 

to Rain's prompt today

as my "twisted" tribute to . . . 

ARTISTS and ANGST!

Enjoy!

Did you know Steve Rogers

was an artist before he was

Captain America?

Like a true artist, he's still

full of frustrated artistic angst.

Let's leave the last word on

artists and angst to that expert,

Henri Le Chat Noir --

Sign(s) of the Times

It's Earth Day Once Again

Thursday Art Date With Rain -- "Library of Recent Art"

I'm taking liberties today with Rain's art prompt of "library" so that I can show you some of my recent artworks which don't otherwise fit that theme.

A course last month called Birds in Watercolour Pencil resulted in only a couple of decent efforts worth posting. Here they are --

Western Tanager

Brown Pelican

And then there's this deathless work of beauty and genius --

Angry Hummingbird

Giving Evil Eye

To Entire World

I've just started a new course called Drawing Wildlife in Graphite. This is our first animal, which turned out well enough.

Bobcat

Two recent workshops involving coloured pencils also resulted in a couple of efforts that I'm happy with --

Lotus / Waterlily

(although I regret the

badly rendered background)

Red Fox on a Snowy Day

(I'm very pleased with this one!)

[All art and photos of art © Debra She Who Seeks 2023]

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

It was Ulysses/Odysseus,

the cleverest of all Greeks,

who devised the

Trojan Horse strategy,

so here's a couple of

LOLs in his honour --

And who says the old myths

about Troy aren't relevant anymore?