This is the last piece from the Cheat Sheet series to be be published online.  The series is now complete and I do not expect to be creating any further Cheat Sheets.

Cheat Sheet #27

Completed in 2007

3" x 3.4"

Ink on heavy white cardstock paper

           

 

(Enlarged to show details.  Fish often represent emotions in spiritual lore and in psychological interpretations of our dreams.  The words in this piece are shown below.)

      

This piece completes a series of bright open ink drawings that I call Cheat Sheets for life.  Sometimes in school, my teachers let students make small cheat sheets to bring with when taking tests.  You could write anything you wanted on the cheat sheet.  Anything!  Usually, I never wound up using my cheat sheet for the tests.  The act of writing the stuff down had seared it into my memory.  But I made the cheat sheets anyway.  And they always looked really cool!  With lots of teeny tiny writing in all directions and wee little charts and graphs and formulas.  I figure we could all use a nice cheat sheet now and then.

These unique pieces are all one-of-a-kind original works of art.  They are created with fancy artist's markers filled with India ink on nice heavy white paper.  These are light-safe materials, but I still would recommend displaying these drawings somewhere away from direct sunlight to prevent fading.

I created all of these pieces freehand in ink without pencil sketching first.  And I do not use rulers or tools.  The lettering is equally loose, not tight and precise like my painted words.  These are meant to be gestural energetic pieces with expected imperfections. 

Here is s small sample of other pieces from this series...

 

You will want to frame your new artwork to protect your investment. One affordable way to frame this unique drawing would be to purchase a standard-sized frame at your local home store and then bring the frame and the artwork together to a custom-framer. Ask the framer to mat the art to fit the frame. These pieces would look lovely with a neutral mat and a low-profile frame.

Cheat Sheets are always original works of art.  I do not offer prints of this series. 

 

 

 

There are many things in life that seem important, but they are not.  Like business appointments or bottles of wine or burning dinner or going to the dentist.

And then there are a few things in life that seem common and not-so-important but they matter the most of all.  The emotions that move you.  The passion that keeps life interesting.  The dreams that give you hope.

If you are blessed.  If you feel those emotions.  If your heart beats with passion.  If the stars speak your language.  Give thanks and let the rest go.

Give thanks and let the rest go.

     

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