“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”
– Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Kitty Closeup
2.5″ x 3.5″ Watercolor with touches of white gouache
This is Possum again. I really loved this cat’s eyes. Working in this small size, I can do study after study, without taking a lot of time or using a lot of paper. Another one is coming tomorrow.
About Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, the Jesuit scholar and moralist author, was the leading Spanish proponent of conceptism (conceptismo), a method of expressing ideas through puns, epigrams, and other verbal devices. He was born in 1601 in Aragon. The Jesuit leadership frowned on his oratorical style, which included reading a letter from Hell to his congregation. His best known books include
The Art of Worldly Wisdom and
The Hero, which repudiated Machiavelli. He died in 1658.
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