Cedar Writes

Category: Art

  • Digital Art

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    On the art front, I haven’t had a whole lot of time. I messed around with a new painting program a little the last few days, and perhaps in time I’ll be able to do nifty stuff with it – it has huge potential – but for now, well, I’m all thumbs. Part of that…

  • Illustrating History

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    A friend shared a link to a photo resource, and I had to pass it on. Photogrammar is a very nifty collection, curated by Yale University, of photos taken between 1935 to 1945. Whether you are a historian, writer, or photographer, there is something here for you. I was playing with the map, which enables…

  • Emotional Investment

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    There’s a part of all of us that wants something to be true, because we want it. Our child’s first drawings we coo over, holding them up and saying ‘look! He’ll be an artist yet…”” while the objective outsider smiles politely and wonders what the colorful blobs are meant to be. The stories we write,…

  • Oceans and Seas of the Heart

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    When I was fairly young I spent a lot of time on the Oregon Coast with my grandmother. I can remember deciding I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was maybe six or seven, but by the time I was eight I had grown out of that and wanted to be a botanist,…

  • Garden Denizens

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    So, today you get an art blog. Specifically, you get what I see when I look at the world. In a manner of speaking, the camera lens captures my eye, the way I look at things. If the eye is the window to the soul, what do photos say about the artist? I know that…

  • Kindle Unlimited

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    I muse at length on the new Amazon offering over at Mad Genius Club. I’m reminded of the old admonishment, be careful what you wish for. You might get it. The Genie in Scheherazade’s tales of Arabian Nights was a most literal being. So are computers, come to think of it. Unless you define your…

  • Daydreaming

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    Which is another way of saying this is a catch-all post. My schedule for today is homework, more homework, work-work, possible lunch with friends (yay!), and if that happens and I have my homework done, I get to go shoot butterflies. Yes, I know you need a teeny-tiny calibre to shoot butterflies… you all are…

  • A Brain for Art and Science

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    I think some of you know that I’m taking an intensive Chemistry class this summer, to finish up General Chem and prepare to take Organic Chemistry this fall. It’s nothing super complicated, the last chapter was boiling point elevation, freezing point depression, vapor pressure… this chapter we will finish tomorrow and then an exam for…

  • Nature Art

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    While I was at LibertyCon, and on the trip down, I took more pictures than just of people. I have chemistry lab today, and ought to be working on my pre-lab write up, since I spent my homework time last night out performing at a Ramadan party… With no further ado, works of art from…

  • Not all Art

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    Not all art is depressing. Not all art has to be a stright representation of some natural form. Not all art is boring. Not all art… Yesterday’s post on the death of beauty made today’s art post particularly challenging. How can I, an artist, follow up on that when I have lifted up Art and…

  • The Murder of Beauty

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    Who Murdered Beauty? We meet today, my friends, to attempt to solve a crime. A crime against all of humanity, one which is extinguishing the life from Art, Philosophy, and even Ethics. Unlike with a human life, the existence may yet be restored to Beauty, but it will take solving the murder first, so we…

  • Creating Art

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    It’s been a couple of weeks since I did an art blog, but today I am trying to catch up from having migraine yesterday, and I do have art to share… The first is just a doodle piece, which actually started out as half an owl. I don’t know why, I tend to be more…