October 31, 2007
flocker in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article about women and blogging and it featured a brief interview with me!
Ms. Perry … learned to draw a few years ago.
“People told me that the way to learn to draw was to draw every day,” she said. “So I did.”
Ms. Perry hasn’t stopped since. Every day, she posts a watercolor or drawing, delicate yet sharply observed, from her life: a glimpse of her feet on an ottoman, a sunflower losing its petals, the Clarion County Courthouse.
“I follow G.K. Chesterton’s philosophy, which is, ‘If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly,’ and this sketch blog is a thing profoundly worth doing, even when I do it badly,” she laughs. “I believe that sitting still and simply looking at something allows me to slow down and appreciate my ordinary surroundings in a new way. Drawing daily lets me take chances, make mistakes, and model that process in public.”
(I’m delighted that the editors chose to print one of my drawings with the article, too.)
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5 Responses to “flocker in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette”
Yay!!!!
yes, that is great, Elizabeth! congratulations.
Fantastic.
Fabulous! You just keep on, hear?
Elizabeth: getting in the paper is easy. Doing it without the usual associated indictments and convictions is harder. You did it the hard way, and it’s even better because it’s due to your artistic talent. Congratulations!