Abraham Lincoln
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…
Ah Sunflowers
“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…
The Digital Journey of Autumn Rabbit
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…