Yesterday was the first day of Spring, so tonight I drew a couple of flowers that make me think of spring. I drew this using markers and a new white blending marker. It was a good chance for me to see what the new marker could do.
Ink on paper.
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Today I visited Niagara Falls for the first time. We didn’t actually get to see the falls till after dark because there were so many things we were doing. This piece is me trying to remember it and draw it. I’m not great at landscapes but I think I got a bit of the flow. I spent the day with Chooch and Viv of SpecFicMedia.com and two of my co-hosts on Beyond the Wall. Also, I spent the day with the Skinner’s of Flash Pulp. Also today my friend TABZ got married and it is a bit fitting since thanks to TABZ I met Chooch and Viv. We couldn’t watch the wedding but we saluted them as they married and celebrated in our own way. When I was drawing tonight I watched the stream recording and got to share in something I’d never be able to see ten years ago. Colored Pencils on natural unbleached paper.
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Elephant’s practicing Judo? Why not? Tonight’s art was requested by Tek aka UpsideDownandFlying on tumblr. Tek loved the race picture I did and the Ele-family picture so he wanted to see them practicing Judo. We both love watching the heavyweight judo, it really is the most entertaining of the IJF highlight videos. Of course one of the reason I might like the heavyweight matches is because that matches my body type and my type of martial arts. I practice yoshinkan aikido but both aikido and judo have the same root. I really enjoyed drawing this and how it came out, so there may be more of a series of theses in the future.
Colored pencils on paper
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Shamrocks are often associated with the Irish and St Patrick’s day, and there is a good reason for that. St Patrick used the shamrock to explain the trinity, and it was one of the things that helped me understand it as a child too. How do we say we believe in one God but then talk about Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit. Much like the shamrock, it has three leaves, three sides, three aspects, but they are all one plant, one thing. So the father, the son, and the holy ghost are all the same thing, but they appear to us as separate because they come to us in different aspects of our lives. I think it’s fitting St Paddy’s day is often in the middle of lent. I know some people think it’s a pain when it lands on Friday, but to me having a lesson on the trinity right in the middle of lent is a great way to prepare. That’s what lent is all about, to me, we are preparing ourselves, we are thinking about God and how we are influenced daily, and how we can bring the teachings of Jesus into our daily life.
This description got a bit on the religious side, but it’s important when I talk about my process. I wanted to reflect the lessons I have learned from the shamrock, the lessons about the trinity. Doing this I incorporated the trinity knot into each of the leaves to put the idea in there a bit more. I made this using ink and colored pencil on natural unbleached paper.
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Rory as The Punisher, The PunishRAWR, Rory Castle? You Decide. I love drawing Rory as comic book characters, and each time I am surprised at how well it works out. This time I was working again with forced perspective, with the front on view of the guns. This is something I find very intimidating but I think I get better at it with each attempt. Watercolors on paper.
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