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To Inspire You: Fly High
Fly high and don’t let anyone take the wind from beneath you. Sometimes it may feel like you are the only one who believes in you. It’s lonely. It’s hard. And it’s the most important time to keep pushing on: it will carry you to your potential. Give yourself some love, ’cause you deserve…
Read MoreWinter’s Icy Breath: Preliminary Sketches
These are some preliminary sketches for my “Winter’s Icy Breath” painting. What is it like to be touched by winter? What creatures thrive in it? I’m not a fan of it, myself. But I have known a person or two who loved the cold. And after all, it sets a nice rhythm to our…
Read MoreAfternoon, Revisited: A Couple Characters
A couple characters in study mode. Drawing loosely in doodle mindset often yields the best personalities. I tend to be shy, but I’m trying to loosen up and share. Are you shy or free-and-easy-going? See the evolution of this piece from sneak peek to color study to initial idea to character studies to characters…
Read MoreA Sunday Study
Did you guess the painting that inspired the piece I am starting here? It’s George Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”. You can see the original below. Before I started painting and inking my version of Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”,…
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