Cedar Writes

Category: Art

  • Catching a Break

    Catching a Break

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    I still haven’t got the hang of videos, so if this doesn’t work, and you actually want to see the time-lapse process video, click here. Today’s art daily prompt was caves. Originally I was thinking bats flying, but then this happened. I’m not entirely happy with it – the space part is cool. The outside…

  • Making Art Happily

    Making Art Happily

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    So I’ve been doing daily art challenges since before the first of the year. It’s great! I know that making it to 365 pieces of art is unlikely over the course of the year, but… well, it’s fun. And why not? One of the challenges I’ve been working on is learning how best to use…

  • DNA Ink

    DNA Ink

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    We are all the products of our DNA, and in my opinion, each and every one of us is a work of art. Uniquely beautiful in our own way, from the color of our eyes, to the curve of an earlobe, to the way you walk. But while this is the way DNA is intended…

  • Art Process

    Art Process

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    I’m working on art daily again, even if it’s just a doodle. I’m always working on writing, but I find that art helps with that process by keeping my mind active even when the story is stubbornly blocked. And it makes me happy. For reasons, right now all the happy things are good things. So…

  • Photo Safari

    Photo Safari

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    My friend, fellow author, and fellow photographer Mark Alger invited me to join him on a photo safari through Cincinnati, and the First Reader and I were with him yesterday. I had a marvelous time shooting everything in sight (over 1000 images!) and listening to Mark talk about the history of each area. I’ve only…

  • At The World’s Top

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    Where it’s cold and the wind blows the ice crystals into smithereens and only the spruce endure the freezing of every fiber over and over year in and year out… the ice dragons drift through clouds.

  • People of the Mushroom Planet

    People of the Mushroom Planet

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    So, the other day (ok, a few weeks back) someone shared a video of tiny people riding bugs. “You should do this!” They told me. Which does sound like a lot of fun, but it takes time, patience, and possibly refrigeration to train insects to carry riders. Beside that, where do you get miniature people?…

  • Introducing Poisonous Fun

    Introducing Poisonous Fun

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    And now for something a bit different. Oh, who am I kidding? My kids are a lot different. Poisonous Fun is my daughter’s teeny tiny new business. The Ginja Ninja has a fair amount of down time on her hands while she’s at college, since she’s relying on parents for transport and our schedule isn’t…

  • Space Art

    Space Art

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    For a few years now, I’ve worked at creating fun and somewhat-realistic space art through various digital media. It’s not only a means to an end for me, the author, to have unique art for the covers of science fiction books and to sell to cover art clients, but it’s another way to tell stories.…

  • Nature’s Art

    Nature’s Art

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      nature’s art is unrivalled by any artist’s pen or brush. Header image: “snail in mosses” pen and ink, digital, by Cedar Sanderson

  • Sunday Art: Assassin

    Sunday Art: Assassin

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    One of the things about hunting for bugs is that I get to observe them at their daily lives. And sometimes I catch the most secretive of them in the act. On this particular day I was out with the macro lens, when I spotted a tachnid fly sitting on a Black-Eyed Susan. I maneuvered…

  • Sunday Art: Cat’s Eyes

    Sunday Art: Cat’s Eyes

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    Not my cat. This is the cat that lives on our neighbor’s porch, and prowls the neighborhood. She’s pretty, and today I managed to catch her with the long lens. She could hear the shutter clicking and sat down to look at me and try to figure out what I was doing, so I got…