Tag: Art

  • Friends

    Friends

    “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet Last week, I took a day off from doing ‘pretty much nothing’ at home and went to the beach with two…

  • a gentle calm

    a gentle calm

    I wanted to try my hand at some more minimalistic scenes. It’s a far cry from what I had originally planned, which is an illustration of a woman yelling – which I was going to call “Crying Wolf.” It’s a long story, but long story short: I caved and changed my Adobe plan back to…

  • You Sneaker

    You Sneaker

    “It’s not about the shoes, it’s about what you do in them.” -Michael Jordan So… this is a little sad. I spent an hour or so learning a new technique in Photoshop by reading a tutorial; how to turn an image into a sketch. The reason I did this is because I made a decision…

  • Hope

    Hope

    “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” -Thich Nhat Hanh –Before I talk about hope, let me just say that I’ve been trying one of the new free programs (which I’ll talk about another…

  • Hanging on

    Hanging on

    “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt I don’t have many words tonight, so hopefully my image speaks for itself. Mainly… I’m still getting ideas from my book and the Thing to Do (when you turn 50) #12 is: Indulge Yourself in a Playground…

  • In the Garden

    In the Garden

    As you can see, I’m not quite done with the long narrow images. I liked the idea of having to scroll down the image to see the entire piece, and so I thought it would be fun to have a bit of a surprise at the bottom. In this case, I guess it’s the shoes.…