Nadine Wendell-Mojica: 'Post No Bills' Over This Beauty!

[Thom Courcelle]

I'm continually impressed and inspired by Nadine's character studies... her latest gift to me was no exception:

Nadine admirably finds reason to detail the people and characters that she comes in contact with or with whom she interacts on a daily basis.  In this respect, she is no less of an artist than a photo documentarian.  I wish I had that kind of inspiration--to think that intrepidly about my fellow human beings through the meditation of drawing them.  It is all most of us can do to go to a figure drawing studio once in a blue moon to practice our craft and focus on the beauty of one model.  Nadine finds the time to "discover" people throughout her day, and I'm betting that such a meditation gives her a unique perspective on the beauty inherent in everyday people and their everyday lives, their everyday struggles, celebrations, fears, endurances--a perspective on the real human condition.

I so love getting your miniature meditations, Nadine!  Thank you!

Also included in Nadine's envelope package was a little prize ticket... everyone ought to be awarded one of these!!!

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Thom -- do you know the 'eats shoots and leaves' thingy? Val

[vizma bruns]

Really? They look so heavy lidded and deeeeeep! I wonder if this piece is referring to the end of a prison visit, they look so full of pathos.

[Thom Courcelle]

Val, that's like the overdone joke in the U.S. about yellow diamond-shaped traffic signs around school zones that read "SLOW CHILDREN"... They tragically are not punctuated grammatically, thus countless comics retort, "That's not very politically correct calling those children 'slow.'

[Thom Courcelle]

Isn't that cool, Vizma? That is just the shading that Nadine did--a real trompe l'oeil effect!

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Great art!

(There is a sign in the UK that reads 'Bill Stickers Prohibited'. The response to this -- often in the form of a small bill stuck to it, ha, ha -- is, 'Why? What has Bill Stickers done now?')

[vizma bruns]

Are the eyes cut out? They look like they have shadows on the eyeballs! Love this!