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Today’s featured photo is in honor of my favorite holiday. Valentine’s Day! I have a number of romantic photos I considered for today, but this one seemed most appropriate. Though romance is one aspect of love (a big one!), I wanted to have a more universal feel. Love for family. Love for friends. Love for…
It’s been a bleak, wintry landscape over here this past week. To remedy that, I bring you water colors! This is me trying out different angles instead of a straight on shot. My daughter is a wild artist. Tie-dyed strips of glued together paper seems to be her favorite creation as of late.
This one is a bit abstract. We recently replaced our shower curtain. The water caught the light just right. I decided snag my phone and snap the picture. Don’t worry, I avoided getting my phone wet. What do think? Do you like abstract art? What pictures inspire you?
This featured photo had me grinning as I took it. I debated on different names for it. I settled on: Ignorance Is… I’ve added a lightbox plugin to my WordPress, so the image should open in a nice dialog now. You won’t be redirected to Flickr anymore. It turned out grainier than I’d like, but…
I titled today’s selection Romance Writer. I have a slight obsession with notebooks, particularly leather bound ones. I received a new one, plus the awesome metal feather pen (it came with it’s own ink well *cheer*), from my sis-in-law for Christmas. The rose was courtesy of my super sweet husband. What do you think? Any…
Among my goals for 2014 are blogging more often and improving my photography. Since I’ve read it’s best to keep topics light for the end of the week, I’ve decided to undertake Featured Photo Fridays! These will be images from my life (probably tweaked a bit with filters) that I’m particularly proud of. I kick…
I’m in business! One of the recommendations for self-published authors is to create a business front to do all their publishing through. So I did just that. Well, alright. I didn’t do *just* that. Stoneword Press is an offshoot of a larger business: Tree City Media. Take the word larger with a grain of salt,…
I’ve never fancied myself a good photographer. I had joined Instagram a while back, and then left when they had the wording gaffe that said they would sell our pictures without our permission and we could do nothing about it. Well, they’ve since fixed their wording and–after some prodding from a friend–I rejoined. I think…
Here is my second character sketch. I’m happier with the way she turned out. I used the entire paper length, which I didn’t do with Derek. The black diamond is a little too high, which impeded my drawing of the pendant, and I was never very good at drawing cryptic symbols, so it looks more…
I decided to try my hand at sketching today. I’ve never done much in the way of “realistic” drawing, having spent most of my artistic time on anime-style cartoons. But I bought a brand new sketchbook last night and my pencil demanded I give it a try. The flaws taunt and torment me—the left eye…