If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
- Emily Dickinson.
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I love this poem by Emily Dickinson: so simple, so deep and full of significance, talking about helping the others. And the drawing I made based on a wonderful picture by @kanakanate represents my idea of helping, which starts from looking at the others, recognizing their needs.
I read once that your life starts when you can help someone who cannot return the favor and I find it a wonderful concept that gives everybody a chance of happiness in this world. Hope we all can grab ours today! 🌼
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Portraitstudy made with charcoal and pencils @cretacoloraustria on @strathmoreart paper
“it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!"
Kenny Chesney
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I made this drawing inspired by a photo of joyful @gracebol, and I think it is perfect for today. It's summer solstice! The longest day of the year and as consequence the shortest night. It makes me feel so good!🌞🌞
I was born in winter months so maybe that's why I crave for the sun rays and the summer vibes. Our clothes becomes lighter, our thoughts as well thinking about holiday times and nice evenings with friends under a starry night sky. The summer days with later sunsets make me feel I have more energy, more time, more chances, more opportunities.
So that's my celebration for this day which is dedicated to all of you. Today more then ever: rise, shine and smile. It's summertime!🔥🤩
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This #portraitstudy has been made with charcoal and pencil @cretacoloraustria on @strathmoreart paper.
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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This portrait study is a close up drawing of a photo by @megsausted of her wonderful child. He has a fantastic crown of curls that you don't see in my drawing, as I was captured by his expression and I focused on it. I love to draw portraits of children because of the time I spend observing their faces.
The first feeling I receive from them is their vulnerability. They look like delicate flowers to me, growing through days of sun and days of storms, and it's so easy to harm their innocence, they don't have shield.
Sometimes I remember to have this attitude towards adults as well, because we have all been children and we all have been touched in our vulnerable side. And because we grow and we get stronger, but to live means to accept our vulnerability, especially when we are so lucky to keep our little and delicate child within.
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Portraitstudy made with charcoal and pencils @cretacoloraustria on @strathmoreart paper
“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going."
Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
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Are you a perfectionist? I am 🙈. And if sometimes this is a very nice feature, it shares a less cool side which means constant pressure and anxiety. It's not so easy to be able to accept a doubt, a failure, loose the grip on control... But when this magically happens, it's like taking a deep breath with my lungs, such a relief!
Growing by making mistakes and learning from them: it's so special to learn this when you are an adult because somehow, it's like becoming a child again in front of a whole world to explore.
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This portraitstudy on the wonderful @maggierawlins has been made with charcoal and pencil @cretacoloraustria on @strathmoreart paper
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.” Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
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This drawing is based on an amazing picture by @evapictory, which she titled "Miss you". While I was drawing it I thought of a question I often get: do you miss Italy?
An Italian song says that we always come back where we have been happy and places are simply people, and the desire to go back. I moved abroad 9 years ago and I can't say I miss Italy itself, even if I know it's a wonderful country and I have been lucky to be raised there.
I do miss myself living there, the significant people for me who are/were living there and the words I could not tell them.
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Portraitstudy made with charcoal and pencils @cretacoloraustria on @strathmoreart paper
