My Stimpy

A photograph I took of my Great Pyrenees Stimpy on 6-30-2006.
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Triangular

I did this in 2004. Pencil and Marker.
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Attention Please!

Sun & Sky

Have not felt much like creating lately. I did these in 2005. Pencil, Colored Pencil, Pen, and Marker on index cards. Click on pictures for a larger view.

Friends

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden,
though he may be in the fire.
Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire,
even though he is in the midst of a garden.

-Rumi, "Mathnawi" [IV, 1976-1978]

Sins

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Elbert Hubbard, American entrepreneur and philosopher
(founder of the Roycroft firm) (1856-1915)

Conscience

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Izaak Walton

Secrets

The morning breeze has secrets to tell you.
Do not go back to sleep.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

CHEERS LOVE!

I did this a few months ago with a Sharpie marker on an index card.

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Since I have been doing more drawings, doodles etc. and scanning more of them, I have also been playing with them using PSP - JASC Paint Shop Pro Version 6.0. (I know there are much newer versions, but I just don't feel the need to upgrade ANY of my software programs like I used to. $$$ Free at last!) I can take one scan and work with it for hours and never run out of ideas of what to do with it. I guess it occupies and soothes my ADHD/obsessive-compulsive mind. Now I just need to figure out a way to make a living doing it!

Fate

Though you guard it well, what destiny does not decree disappears.
Though you cast it aside, what fate calls yours will not depart.

-Tirukkural 38: 376-377

www.himalayanacademy.com

Here comes the Sun…

I did this drawing 5-2006 with my *NEW* Farber-Castell set of 4 PITT artist pens I bought at Office Max for $7.29. Very nice 4 nib set! It is on an index card because I just can't and/or don't seem to create on nice or "real" art paper, canvas, etc. I guess it is a step up from when I went to see Robert Maniscalco a few years ago for an art consultation and he asked why my paintings and drawings were on newsprint!

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Reality

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have
christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of
dreams.

-Salvador Dali
Spanish Surrealist Artist

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Salvador Dali in Voluptate Mors by Philippe Halsman

Art of acceptance…

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

-Russell Lynes

Imagination…

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not;
a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are.

-Mark McGinnis