Quote Monday

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“Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge
of oneself.”
― Alan Watts (The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are)

Paper:Arches Watercolor Paper 300gsm Cold Press
Paint: Daniel Smith Watercolor and Holbein Gouache
Pen: Uniball Signo White Gel Pen
Brushes: Protege 512 Flat (3/4″), Princeton 8 round, Loew-Cornell 3 round
+quote added in Photoshop
+minor Photoshop…

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Quote Monday

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“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”
― Bruce Lee (Tao of Jeet Kune Do)

Paper:Arches Watercolor Paper 300gsm Cold Press
Paint: Daniel Smith Watercolor and Holbein Gouache
Pen: Uniball Signo White Gel Pen
Brushes: Protege 512 Flat (3/4″), Princeton 8…

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Quote Monday

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“Look at everything as though you are seeing it either for the first or last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Paper: Bee Paper 100% Rag 140# Cold Press Watercolor
Paint: Daniel Smith and QoR Watercolor
Brushes: Protege 512 Flat (3/4″), Princeton 8 round, Loew-Cornell 3 round
Pen/ink: Uniball Signo White Gel Pen, Ohto graphic Liner,…

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“If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change.”
― Carl Gustav Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections)

Paper:Arches Watercolor Paper 300gsm Cold Press
Paint: Daniel Smith Watercolor and Holbein Gouache
Pen: Uniball Signo White Gel Pen
Brushes: Protege 512 Flat (3/4″), Princeton 8 round, Loew-Cornell 3 round
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“However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Paper: Bee Paper 100% Rag 140# Cold Press Watercolor
Pen: Ohto Graphic Liners, Pentel Art Brush Pens, Uniball Signo White Gel Pen
+quote added in Photoshop
+minor Photoshop level adjustments

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

Tools used:
Paper: Bee Paper 100% Rag 140# Cold Press Watercolor
Pencil (Lead): Uni 0.7 HB lead
Watercolor: Daniel Smith and Holbein
Brushes: Protege 512 Flat (3/4″), Princeton 8 round, Loew-Cornell 3 round
Scanned into Adobe Photoshop, manipulated (overlays, dodging & burning tools, multi-layering,etc) –…

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“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
― Aldous Huxley, Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

Paper: Bee Paper 100% Rag 140# Cold Press Watercolor
Paint: Daniel Smith Watercolor and Holbein Gouache
Brushes: Protege 512 Flat (3/4″), Princeton 8 round, Loew-Cornell 3 round
Pen/ink: Uniball Signo White Gel Pen, Ohto graphic Liner, Dr. Ph…

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“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me’.”
― Virginia Woolf (The Waves)

Paper:Arches Watercolor Paper 300gsm Cold Press
Paint: Daniel Smith Watercolor and Holbein Gouache
Pen:  Uniball Signo White Gel Pen
Brushes: Protege 512 Flat (3/4″), Princeton 8 round, Loew-Cornell 3 round
+quote added in Photoshop
+minor Photoshop level adjustments

This painting…

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“It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

Paper: Bee Paper 100% Rag 140# Cold Press Watercolor
Paint: Daniel Smith Watercolor and Holbein Gouache
Pen:  Uniball Signo White Gel Pen
Brushes: Protege 512 Flat (3/4″), Princeton 8 round, Loew-Cornell 3 round
+scanned and quote added in Photoshop

This painting can…

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“A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.”
― Alan W. Watts

Paper: Arches Watercolor Paper 300gsm Cold Press
Paint: Daniel Smith Watercolor and Holbein Gouache
Brushes: Protege 512 Flat (3/4″), Princeton 8 round, Loew-Cornell 3 round
Pen: Uniball Signo White Gel Pen
Masking Fluid: Winsor and Newton and Fineline
+quote added in Photoshop
+…

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