“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.” -Dennis Gabor (Inventing the Future) Happy Quote Monday, friends! Today’s Quote Monday is an drawing of one of the Mars Rovers, Spirit or MER-A, which looks like Opportunity or MER-B since they are twin robots ;D Spirit landed on the surface of Mars on July … Read more
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”― Mahatma Gandhi (Print available here: http://sjanemills.bigcartel.com/product/reborn-5×7-print) Pencil: Tombow Mono 4B & HB, General’s Charcoal White Pen: Ohto Graphic Liner 01 & 03 Paint: Liquitex Acrylic Naphthol Crimson and Muted Grey Other: Uniball Signo white gel pen … Read more
Hello friends! InCoWriMo starts tomorrow! Time to bring out all the stationery, stickers, postcards, stamps, and pens! InCoWriMo is the short name for International Correspondence Writing Month which challenges you to hand-write and mail/deliver one letter, card, note or postcard every day during the month of February. This is my 4th(!) year participating. I have learned … Read more
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” ― Anne Sullivan, later attributed to Helen Keller Pencil: Kuru Toga with Color Eno Soft Blue lead Paper: Arches 300gsm Hot Press Ink: Ohto Graphic Liners 01,03, 05, Pentel Pocket Brush Pen + … Read more
“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that … Read more
“Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146) Pencil: Kuru Toga with Kuru Toga Lead 2H Paper: Arches 300gsm Cold Press Watercolor: Daniel … Read more
“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible” -Albert Einstein Pencil: Kuru Toga with Color Eno Lead in soft blue and yellow Paper: Arches 300gsm Cold Press Watercolor: Holbein and Daniel Smith Brushes: MyArtscape Ink: Ohto Graphic Liners 01,03, 05 + Uniball Signo White Gel Pens +added quote in Photoshop with … Read more
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” ― Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies Pencil: Tombow Mono 100 2H Paper: Arches 300gsm Cold Press Watercolor: Holbein Brushes: MyArtscape Ink: DeAtramentis Document Fog Grey Pen: Dip pen with Deleter Mapping Nib and TWSBI Mini + Uniball Signo and Gelly Roll White Gel Pens +Photoshop edits/adjustments … Read more
“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book Pencil: Tombow Mono 2H Pens: Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brushes and Kuretake No. 8 Fountain Brush Pen (DP150-8B) Watercolor: Schmincke Pentel Waterbrush + Uniball Signo White gel pen Yesterday was a hard art day. I had no … Read more
Ame futte ji katamaru – Japanese Saying After the rain, earth hardens. Pencil: Tombow Mono 100 2H Inks: Higgins Waterproof Black India Ink, Faber Castell Stone Grey, Dr.Ph.Martin’s Bombay Ink in blue, Deleter White Ink Paper: Fabriano 300gsm Cold Press Nib: Deleter Mapping Nib Brush: Royal and Langnickel +Spray bottle (Adjustments in Photoshop) Happy Quote … Read more