A Peak inside my House Portrait Art Journal

A Peak inside my House Portrait Art Journal

House Portraits, Journals and Diaries
Once upon a time the only way to create a portrait of one’s home was to craft an original drawing in pen or pencil and use paint to capture the color and personality of the home.  While I appreciate the modern amenities we all enjoy today, I believe that those handmade arts and drawing skills should not be lost and forgotten in this age of digital expediency. I believe that the human hand, mind and spirit adds life and vibrance to any artistic creation. In my travels across the USA, I have spent thousands of miles getting to know its wonderful homes and architecture in unique neighborhoods, towns and cities. Architecture is about people and their expression of artistic style and practicality.  That’s why I find it so fascinating. When…
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The Art of Journaling

The Art of Journaling

Journals and Diaries
Keeping Journals and Diaries  - an exploration into yourself and the world around you. In this wise, I'm not sure if I am dated, or ahead of my time. For centuries, long before this ever-expanding digital age we live in today,  one recorded their impressions of the world around one, of nature, events and people along with ones thoughts, dreams and creative ideas in journals or dairies. Regular folks, not just artists, would draw their special memories, often imbue them with color, include their thoughts, ideas, musings, poems and special messages. It was something they could then reflect on later. Often they would pass these journals onto their children who would in turn pass them on further. Leonardo de Vinci and Virginia Wolfe are famous examples of this. Today this…
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