Community Sketchbook--post your sketches

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These are great. Love how you manipulate the focus so its sharper at the center of interest. If you think about it everyone sees the world as if a vignette since everything is blurry in our peripheral vision.

 

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Coming to a City Near You

Halt citizen...Your Transponder data indicates you have exceeded your two kilometer allowed range. Stand by for fine assessment.

 

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Fun practice mixing digitally. Used a soft brush with some transparency to mix a Zorn Palette, then eye dropper selected the color and used an opaque brush. Then I can use the palette when starting a painting.

 

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2 Kings 6

And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, master! For it was borrowed.” So the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And he showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw it in there; and he made the iron float. Therefore he said, “Pick it up for yourself.” So he reached out his hand and took it. NKJV

 

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No reference, just practicing color temperature

 

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No reference, trying to construct

 

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Princess Bride is a favorite in our family, as I am sure it is for many.

 

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Isa 53:4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

1Pe 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

 

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Woodpecker

 

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This was for a contest, where you re-paint another person's painting in your own style.

 

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Inspired by:

Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden - 1913-1980

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?

 

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Supervisor--"State your progress"

Crewman--"Hey Boss, you are going to want to take a look at this."

Supervisor--"Did you have problems blasting through?"

Crewman--"We got through no problem. But There are some kind of... ruins...."

Supervisor--"Look, I don't care what you see down there, we are three weeks behind on this ore shipment already, and I am not waiting for any archaeologist to dig out some stone age tool fragments. "

Crewman--"Oh, I don't think these are paleolithic...."

 

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Homebase: ........

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Re-worked an old painting