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Denver, UNITED STATES

Abraham Lincoln

Posted over 3 years ago

Many of us rarely think about Lincoln in anything other than black and white. We take him for granted as a historical figure, a savior of the country during its biggest challenge, and we forget that he was human… He loved and spoiled his children, he was kind and good-humored, yet he was relentless in his prosecution of the Civil War. He abhorred slavery but was frustratingly practical in i…

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Ah Sunflowers

Posted over 3 years ago

“Ah Sunflowers”

Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller’s journey is done;

Where the Youth pined away his desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and apire
Where my Sunflower wishes to go!

-William Blake

THE METHOD:

The photograph I took was beautiful: two bright sunflowers under the n…

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The Digital Journey of Autumn Rabbit

Posted over 3 years ago

I always had some disdain for digital art, inherited from my beliefs in school. I see it somehow as cheating. This has been unfair, however. As technology changes and expands, it would be a shame not to embrace it and use it as a tool to express a beautiful object or idea.

Fine sites like Fine Art America make it much more practical to sell prints-on-demand as opposed to originals. Digital modifi…

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