Tag: journaling
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Vintage Appeal
Antiques: Grandma had it. Mom threw it out. I bought it back. I used a black and white photograph for the basis of this illustration, and it’s said to be from an old photo shoot for Harper’s Bazaar… by photographer John Engstead. I wasn’t able to fact check this and verify it – so don’t…
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Less is More
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. -Joseph Brotherton A New Series is in the Works! I came up with the idea for this post several days ago, as well as the title, but this afternoon I had a hard time living up to it…
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…in the window
“My head was once a filing cabinet. Now it’s a flurry of papers, floating on a draft.” -A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window I started this woman some time ago and just came back to her after I got tired of the newer things I’ve been working on. I keep doing that… losing interest…
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fleeting:
lasting for a very short time. brief. short-lived. momentary. “Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new” -Paracelsus My illustration is a bit different than my norm, but I’m thrilled at the fact that it looks somewhat like I’d envisioned. My imaginings are like rough sketches or stick figures, but it’s…
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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…
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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…
a sprinkle of faith 