Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

~Albert Einstein~

A Little Birdie Told Me (c) Kathryn Hansen 2013  

 progressing on my commission...the sand isn't as hard as i was expecting! that's good news!! so far i'm very pleased with how everything is going. but now i'm getting ready to go on a short vacation with my amazing girlfriends to joshua tree, so i may not get a whole lot more completed till next week. 

They stand quiet in the breathless hush of beauty.

~Lazaris~ 

 Zarafa (c) 2012 Kathryn Hansen

progress shots of zarafa. 

clear a path by walking it, boldly

tara sophia mohr

 Watchful (c) 2012  Kathryn Hansen

boy...i am soo happy to be done with this piece...the ivy was really starting to drive me crazy! in the past i would have just abandoned it, yet always lingering in the back of my mind as yet another drawing that was never completed...i have quite a stack of those! so i guess i am proud that i didn't let this one slide...that i stuck it out even tho i really wanted to draw something else...like the giraffe below. which i am loving because i am really seeing how daffy looking giraffes are...not that i didn't notice before but when so intimately involved with drawing a subject it just really dawns on you!!