Earth, Wind, and Autumn Sky
A new moleskine pocket notebook, a new back pocket to decorate and work forward from, and the autumn has been in my thoughts a lot lately (it’s my favorite time of year; I would dwell here forever if I could).
latest updates: earth
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2011Oct 200
tags: autumn | back cover | earth | ink | Pen | Pocket | sketch | sky | wind -
2011Mar 30
tags: 4 | air | black | blue | colored pencil | DNA | earth | fire | four | green | interlocking | knot | marker | Pen | red | sacred geometry | square | water | yellow
hello ‘skine.art!
I’m happy to announce that after ages of lurking here and loving it, I have finally taken the plunge and created an account. I love the work being shared and am excited to be a part of it all at last. my first post is a two-parter: two different versions of one design I created a little while back.
I’ve been a huge fan of sacred geometry for at least a year or so—seed/egg/flower of life, celtic knotwork, &c.—and decided to combine that with my lifelong love of the number 4 (and, by extension, squares) in a set of interlocking square links.
I like to think of them representing the 4 classical elements: (clockwise from top) Earth, Air, Fire, Water. another interesting reading I discovered is that they seem to represent the 4 base pairs of DNA (GATC) which are the building blocks of life as we know it. naturally, there are many more sets of 4 which could be referenced; and I invite you to choose the one(s) which speak(s) to you.the version on the left was done with a Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen as well as Prismacolor colored pencils; and the version on the right was done with a brush-tip F-C artist pen and colored brush-tip F-C markers.
I hope you enjoy; and I look forward to sharing more of my work in the future.
Cheers,
William
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2010Jan 15
tags: earth | glacier | lyrics | map | ocean | salt | stars | watercolor | waterfall | world
This is based on the lyrics of a song (which are written on the glacier) by Death Cab for Cutie. Every time I hear this song I have this picture in my mind and it was great to finally draw it. I had a great time painting/drawing this one and I love how it turned out. Sorry if your country is horribly deformed, I wanted the continents to be recognizable without spending an eternity worrying about detail. The stars were made by sprinkling a bit of salt on the black watercolor while still wet.
In case you can’t read my writing here are the lyrics:
“I wish the world was flat like the old days, so I could travel just by folding a map… there’d be no distance that could hold us back.” -
2009Oct 15
tags: body | earth | gouache | hat | sky | spidernet | tempera | temple
Untitled – tempera/gouache
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2009Jan 26
tags: color | doodle | earth | ideas | marker | mind | Obama | thoughts
This is a little bit late upload, but my internets been down for a while. its just things on my mind and in my life. on the left is “na inconvineint truth” because i had a presentation on it. and on the right is for Obama’s ennauguration. ( i did not draw the picture of obama its off the internet)
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2008Jul 10
tags: apocalypse | clouds | earth | lettering | text | typography | whale | words
The end is near!
