DRY MEDIA
Dry media is the category of charcoal, colored and graphite pencils, soft pastel, scratchboard, and more.
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ART AND THE VIEWER
Rough reasoning: There are three elements - the diamond, the hand, the baby. The diamond is art. It's an art object, a vessel for artistic meaning, you get it. It's independent from the rest. The hand is of a grown up, and it gestures a question. The hand is an expression of how adults communicate with art - they employ their intellect in order to understand. The baby is visibly intrigued by the diamond - it has feelings. The baby doesn't intellectualize, it experiences through emotion. So all of this is a metaphor for the experience one has with art - he either thinks about it (with all of the benefits and shortcomings), or he feels about it ( with all of the benefits and shortcomings).
SOFT PASTEL ON VELVET PAPER
August dragon
Meadows, a stream, a blue flower pops in the mouth of a vicious wild cat, a dragon breather, a blue horse gallops in the belly of a yellow beast.
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Cotton Candy flow
A river of caramel and strawberry syrup flows curvaceously around its cotton candy islands. Grape fumes flow above, a lemon drop shines over everything.
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the choice
Do you want to be up in the clouds, with the stars, but alone, or would you rather be down in the dirt, but with another?
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The shift
The release after buildup. Some intense release that is.
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Post Supper
This is one of my favorites - it's has no social commentary, and is deep as much as the cool pond that this guy is looking in for a snack.
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the hero's journey
Joseph Campbell wrote ' The Hero's Journey'. In his book, he looks into humanity's greatest stories, and finds out that they all have the same basic framework, and that the protagonist in each of them walks the same path as the others. Campbell distills that path and represents it as a circle. This is the bottom of that circle, it shows the hardships of the journey. It shows the moment of absolute sharpness, the point of the spear. Right before death, or right after rebirth, maybe both.
SOFT PASTEL ON BFK RIVES
Chill quack
This quacker is chilling in the pond at sunset in September.
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glad-is
She's happy.
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the stoic
He is of the ground, the earth, the soil. You're not moving him.
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the force of one
One versus the many. The crowd and the person. The closer they get to him, the more distorted they become.
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Roman
Of a masculine tradition.
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Sky pine
It's just a pine in the sky. Super literal.
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Sad-is
She's sad.
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TWINS
I will say it as many times as I have to. Brown and blue are born for each-other.