Tag: Art
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The Muse Within
“I am my own muse, the subject I know best.” Frida Kahlo I thought I’d share my latest illustration… one that I’m actually quite happy about. Not because of the quality, or any techniques that I used, but because it’s the result of some reflecting I did after my post on technology, social media, and…
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Ladies Night
I went off track today. I had a few ocean photographs that I was working on but I was distracted by my desire to illustrate / paint this woman from the past. Her name was Louise Brooks and apparently she was a young starlet in the 1920s. I had never heard of her… and still…
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Summer in the City
“Hot town, summer in the city, Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty. Been down, isn’t it a pity, Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city. All around, people looking half-dead, Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head…” -The Lovin’ Spoonful So… I got carried away with effects again! But…
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The Outlier
I wanted to write a poem for this one because I felt a connection to the little outlier who stood apart from his flock… but then it occurred to me that the image was descriptive enough. My brain fog (which is getting better), and my inability to write an entertaining story at the moment, has…
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Ghosts
I found a guy on Instagram who does photo edits of surfers and beach goers and I was kind of inspired. His images are absolutely beautiful, and God knows I have a lot of beach photographs to play with. What’s basically happening here is I’ve taken an iPhone image and brought it into Photoshop, then…
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Optimism
I thought I’d piggyback on my previous post (Naivety) so that I could bring some positivity back to the game. When I talked about naivety, I wasn’t expressing my beliefs (I don’t walk around angry) – I was simply pondering the word, it’s meaning, and what the word means to me. That being said, it…
a sprinkle of faith 