Emily Dickinson was an American poet (born & raised in Mass in the 1800’s). She was prolific, reclusive, and her work tended to focus around themes of death and immortality. Very little of her work was published while she was alive.
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality”
This is day seven of the fourteen days of love illustrated! You can read about The ArtLove Project here.
It is said that our pupils dilate when we are looking at someone we are attracted to.
Note: I half cheated on this one. The original photo is stock, but the digital enhancement is of my own doing.
This is day six of the 14 days of love illustrated series. You can read more about the project here.
Crush – schoolyard crush, secret love, object of affection or desire, infatuation, puppy love. Actual definition of the word crush: to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms. Oh, the irony.
Other [unrelated] notes: Crush is the name of a Bon Jovi album that I really dig. It’s also the name of about a dozen other random albums as well.
This is day five of the 14 days of love series. – you can read all about The ArtLove Project here.
Love Potions Sketchbook Page #1 - Pencil, ink, watercolor - approx. 4x6
Love potions, cure all elixirs, strong arming free will. Being love struck, enchanted, bewitched. A common theme in movies – usually with disastrous consequences. There’s a pill for just about every ailment nowadays, isn’t there..?
This is day four of the 14 days of love series. – you can read all about ArtLove in this post.
Soulmates: kindred spirits, companions, lovers. The concept of soul mates isn’t just restricted to romantic love relationships. Although some people believe there is an ultimate form of soulmates in which there is only 1 equal matching spirit out there that matches our own. It is said that all souls are searching to find and intertwine with their other half. This is an actual theory called twin flames – although it’s rooted in astrology & mythology.
Notes about this photo: I had to open 4 boxes of conversation hearts to get two soulmate pieces.
This is day three – you can read all about the ArtLove Project in this post.
Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.- Emily Logan Decens
Heartbeat: A single complete pulsation of the heart. A vital force or driving impulse. In an instant… [In a heartbeat - vector artwork.]
Side note: There’s an exceedingly large amount of cheeseball songs that use this line. It’s pretty hard to tell where exactly this phrase originated from.
Blogging regularly has been more of a challenge than I originally anticipated. I’m sure it’s just because it’s not a habit yet. So, I’m starting a mini project. 1 graphic a day for fourteen days – ending on Valentine’s Day. Themes to revolve around.. Love & Happiness (surprising, I know). Ideally I’d like to cover common phrases & symbols that are often associated with love and V-day.
The project will include artwork of all kinds. Digital, photo, drawings. I have a list of thoughts, but I’ve only started 1 or 2 illustrations, so this will be an on the fly, crunch time, completely made up as I go along, improvised art project. I’m hoping this doesn’t turn into the sappiest two weeks of blog posts ever. But I’m definitely not making any guarantees.
I thought that I might call this the graphic love project, but the general consensus is that a title like that sounds far more.. adult than what’s actually going on. So… The ArtLove Project. (this is day 1, btw)
Happy February. :-)
LoveBirds – ArtLove Project Day 8
Lovebirds pencil sketch.
You can check out this post to read about: The ArtLove Project.