I’ve finally gotten around to revamping the art/design section of Blank Slate:
It’s running off a zenphoto installation, rethemed to fit …
The Archives: Art
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I recently stumbled across a rather cool website called Peoples Archive. It has tons of short videos with “the world’s greatest thinkers, creators, and achievers.” While some …
As you may have noticed in the screenshot on my last post, something new’s afoot. It’s a blog called Mormon Renaissance, and if you’re interested at all in …
I came across A.viary not too long ago, and I just have to say that if it ends up done well, dang, it’s going to be sweet. Image …
Just a quick report that my resolution to post a drawing a day on BenjaminCrowder.com is going well. Here are some of them:
They’re …
I’ve gotten a little design-giddy in the last couple of days, and this morning I redid Riverglen Press:
Better, I think. :) …
8. Substantia
I came across a neat short film (animation, really) this morning. It’s called Substantia, and while at first I wondered what was going on, it became clear pretty …
When it comes to the arts, I seem to be bounce back and forth between creation and consumption. Both halves are important to the whole, and in a sense …
10. Cry unto him
One of the members of my stake presidency invited me to go to a pre-premiere showing of a new documentary film his company is distributing. It’s the sequel to …
11. Some artwork
The other day I bought some paper for inking and a new paintbrush. Drew this fellow on the right:
After I …
I’ve had a beastly head cold (like a jackhammer on the brain) since Monday afternoon, and little time to sleep, so I took today off to just sleep. But …
Today’s post will be a triptych, like those old three-part paintings (in case you were wondering what “triptych” means and if it does indeed have anything to do with “cryptic”). …
14. Sons of Adam
I love people. Nature’s good, and animals are pretty sweet, but of all God’s creations, humankind is my favorite. Niagara can’t hold a candle to a newborn baby. …
“For I, the Lord God, created all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth.” –Moses 3:5
In my creative work — …
16. Domino effect
Stumbled across a quote by John Adams that really struck me hard:
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My …
17. O Starry Night
An hour or two ago I opened Gmail and happened to notice this news bulletin above my messages: “Liz Taylor can keep Van Gogh painting.”
My first thought was, “But what …
What is up with so many guys in the arts being gay? It’s nowhere near a majority, thank heavens, but there are enough of them that a man who’s …
19. Unsung melodies
If I were an animal, I think I would be a monkey.
Not because I like monkeys. But tonight as I was watching the BYU songwriters’ showcase, I realized that …
I can’t wait for my hair to go grey. And then to fall out. Yes, I’m looking forward to being bald. Really.
But that’s not what I want …
21. Meredith
Another cross-posting from BenjaminCrowder.com, mainly because I’ve spent the last hour writing a story and all my writing energy is depleted. :) Here’s a digital painting I finished …
Spent six hours today at “Life, the Universe and Everything”, BYU’s annual science fiction & fantasy symposium. Where to begin? First, overall impressions. I’d expected more …
Just went to a BYU-AML lecture by Gideon Burton on the Book of Mormon as literature. Rather than recap the whole thing, I’ll just mention the points that stuck …
Over the past two or three days I’ve learned something valuable, something I wish I’d known years ago. It is this: when a guy asks a girl out, there …
25. All good things…
So, it’s the last post of the year. (I won’t have Internet access tomorrow.) I suppose I ought to bequeath words of wisdom or something. Oh, wait, …
26. White as snow
Spent an hour this morning painting with ArtRage and my tablet. The full post is over at BenjaminCrowder.com. (And if you want to leave comments, do it …
For my Middle English class we had to give five-minute presentations on a person or event from that time period (A.D. 1100–1500). Today was my turn, and I couldn’t …
Spent a good chunk of time today working on A Christmas Carol, redoing the cover art in Blender. While these crutches aren’t anything spectacular, they’re a whole lot …
During breakfast today I watched Jehane Noujaim’s presentation at TED. The first half, actually; I’ll watch the rest of it after I finish writing this post. :) …
I may end up writing a longer entry later tonight, but in the meantime, here’s a small painting I made earlier today:
Digital …
My friend came up with a cool collage from her trip to Europe this spring:
It’s a brilliant idea, really, compressing …
33. Ramblings
I was going to post this yesterday, but the site went down just as I was going to do so. Oh well.
On my way up the hill to campus, …
Today’s post is a three-course meal. This is my way of justifying three topics crammed into one post instead of three separate posts. As for which way is …
While spending the day with my family on Independence Day, I seized the opportunity to play the piano. We have two pianos at home, actually: one an old upright …
BenjaminCrowder.com is up. I’ll be changing the design around a lot, once school gets out, but for now the current theme will suffice. So, if the art, …
So I think I’m going to start another blog. ~gasp, shudder, sigh~ I’m not entirely sure yet, but I think it would be fitting to have a graphic design …
39. Lomo Photoshop
Found a neat article, How to Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography. I took one of my mission photos and turned it into this:
Lately I’ve become rather enamoured of the idea of studying the masters. In my own art, I can tell that a lack of having studied other artists has stunted …
41. Jack’s beanstalk
During my Family Finance class today I was struck with an irresistible urge to draw. So I drew — tarantulas (did I mention that my roommate has a pet …
After a break of almost three months, I’ve started working on the Plan of Salvation cards again. This morning I added the Afrikaans edition, and I’ll be adding …
44. The kettle black
This morning in my Music 201 (History of Civilization) class, we talked a little bit about Plato’s Republic, which brought up the topic of censorship. (It’s one of the …
45. Favorite font
For a long time Myriad Pro was my favorite font, and I still use it a lot, but Minion Pro has grown …
46. Global mosaic
Stumbled across TheBroth’s Global Mosaic today. It’s an Ajax mosaic tile game (for lack of a better word), with …
A friend pointed me to Steve McCurry’s site today. Steve is a photographer whose work appears often in National Geographic, …
49. Symbol signs
The AIGA (I couldn’t find anywhere on their site that gave the meaning of the acronym, actually, but they’re graphic …
Added Bulgarian, Indonesian, Polish, and Samoan to the Plan of Salvation page.
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