Tag Archive for: art
Nature’s Serendipities – traditional drawing – second work in progress
Sunday, drawing time. :D The Mariner finds itself in the second work in progress. Adding a few more elements to the piece, in the composition, and strengthening accents and contrasts. I needed a wide range of tones from white to black, which…
Ars Caelestialis: Hope – digital painting
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Tertullian.
Even in the darkest hour hope still lingers not as a shadow but as a light, and not from above but from within.
The greatest stormy clouds open and the harshest waves of the vast ocean of…
Abstractions: In Light we trust
There are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
Constantin Brancusi
Ever since the beginning of visual arts…
Photographic Projections: Photography and me
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the…
Photographic Projections: Expectancy in Photography
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake
It's often indicated by professional landscape photographers to look behind, while out in the…
Music of Photography: Lighting in the Dark
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu.
In the first volume of "Music of Photography" I talked not only about photography but also about music, art in general, science, I tackled even religion…
Music of Photography: A Time to Speak or Sing
Music expresses what cannot be said which is impossible to remain silent.
Victor Hugo
Music, as I said, is always with us. There isn't a day without listening to music in our lives. It is a part of who we are, actually.
In the photography…