Tag: illustration
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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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Creation…
vs. Automation. It’s funny that the “to be continued” story that I wrote a while ago (and have yet to continue) was a fictional tale about artificial intelligence, and here I am moving on to a new idea that deals with something quite similar – but uses visual communication instead. In theory, that means that…
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Punk’s Not Junk
A Short Story (Part 2). Sometimes I get sidetracked when I talk about Ray. His story has very little (ok, nothing) to do with what happened when we were five, but it was our very first encounter and I believe it has significance. Not that he even remembered my racy proposition, or the scolding that…
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The Golden Boy
A Short Story. I was five when I first met Ray. I remember the encounter vividly, weeks before kindergarten was to start. Ray had moved in with his grandma, and she lived two doors down from us. I’d never even seen the woman before – until that humiliating, hot August day. “Get out of here!”…
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Rockabilly
I thought I’d entertain myself (and you, hopefully!) with a little song & dance while I’m on my time-out. This illustration was super fun to make, and it all started with a photograph that I found of Elvis (note the hair and the dance move). I was in no mood for faces or body details,…
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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…
