Chemistry – ArtLove Project Day 9
“We have great chemistry”
In their efforts to better understand what makes people fall in love (and perhaps what love is), scientists have categorized love into three basic stages: lust, attraction & attachment. The chemicals listed in the illustration above all purportedly play a part in the three phases of love. (Sourced from this article on wikipedia)
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LoveBirds – ArtLove Project Day 8
Lovebirds pencil sketch.
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Immortal Love – ArtLove Project Day7
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”
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Attraction – Day 6
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.
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Crush – ArtLove Day 5
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 Spell – ArtLove Day 4
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 – ArtLove Project Day 3
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.
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Heartbeat – ArtLove Day 2
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.