The Fine Art Blog of Daz and Holly

I re-worked this one just now. I drew the girl in pencil and created the dragon in photoshop!
You can download the huge jpg (for printing purposes) via the link below the pic!

http://99daz.com/art/dragongirl.jpg

This art is by Chris Brogan, an artist who has found a more ‘useful’ identity bringing people together for business and pleasure by blogging on social networking.

I know Mrs. Chili will like this pic!

Chris meet Chili – Chili meet Chris!

My niece says "bawwoon".

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 Potential, the possibility of a certain thing happening. Quantum intent, the scientifically proven connection between your intentions and what actually manifests. In terms of art, that intent creates a potential and then that potential manifests into a reality.

For me, positive intent is paramount, I want to inspire, I want to be appreciated and I want to be able to continue to do so.

I really am happy in the moment, just like my fortune cookie at the excellent Dynasty Buffet. DJ Disaster liked the short haired waitress and I thought the long haired girl was lovelier!  I rarely draw girls with short hair.

We were discussing time travel and I explained (because I am such the expert on everything) that you wouldn’t suddenly disappear, like Back To The Future, if you ‘changed’ your past. The ‘grandfather paradox’ is not a certainty as quantum physics has concluded that our perception of time as being cause and effect linear is really only a perception and everything is actually happening in an instant.

Imagine that every possible outcome is out there waiting for you to grab it like a gold balloon. How do you get the outcome you want? You set your intent and, because things are all happening in an instant, you act as if you have what what you want. Have no fear.

Just a note on the flu pandemic thing, trust God. The univere will provide you with what you need to survive, if you want to survive.

Appreciate the moment, for the moment is all we have.

My intentions, which will become reality.

1: To get that sweet copier Riverfront Media looked at last week, and make tons of 11×17 double-sided posters and booklets that will inspire and spread happiness.

2: To publish other artists and interesting creative types in my new version of Go B Zine (having a finisher on the color laser copier will be perfect!)

3: To print something for the Peoria Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure since their race for the cure is on the same day as the Tech this Out – technology expo at the East Peoria Event center on may 9-10 2009.

4: Get a new office and studio for Riverfront Media, hopefully near the Illinois river again (where we got our name from) or perhaps in Pioneer Park.

5: Spread the love, we’re all connected and with all this fear and negativity around it’s time to rise above your fears and be the change you want to see. 

For The Love of Seahorses – gold leafed seahorse and digital paint by Darren Cox aka Daz

I share a birthday (coming up!) with Daphne Du Maurier  who was born on May 13, 1907

When humidity reaches 100% the water starts to drop out of the sky right? This morning it had to be close to 99% humidity here in magical Keansburg NJ as the mist was still thick on the home stretch to noon! Walking on the beach when you can only see about 30 or 40 feet ahead of you is a nice change from the usual long vistas.

I found a nice shiny quarter yea! (that’s 25 times more than Laura Ingles Wilder got at Christmas you know). I also found a pocket full of trinkets and treasures and then I found a really nice big feather, it is a seagull feather and while I’m sure Laura had 25 times more pretty feathers, it’s still a nice one.  Seagulls might not be as flashy as peacocks or magestic as eagles but I can see them anytime I want and makes them far more inspirational!

Then I found a perfect piece of driftwood, it was light like the feather but it has a perfect spiral in the middle just made for fingers to grab and the feather fit perfectly into the end. Suddenly I realized that it was now a magic wand and I used it’s magic to stop it from raining ha! it now sits in my bedroom window awaiting its next use!

You should make one too, you don’t have to use a feather, you can put a flower or something else magical in your stick to activate it!

I also found a balloon with a card on it ha! Congratulations young Gaurav of Chesterbrook Academy Elementary School in West Chester , PA, your balloon ended up on the beach in Keansburg NJ!  I’ll send the card back to you on monday!

It’s "dandylion season", the non-corporate, non-religious time for celebrating early spring, you can’t buy anything for this and many people are actally anti-dandists *gasp* oh well, more wishes for those of us who celebrate! here’s a poem from 1990 i wrote about dandelions.

The Dandelion Poem

If you were a flowering thing which one would you be?

honeysuckle, an orchid, cherry blossom or rose?

perhaps something so exotic that nobody yet knows

or perhaps all traditional like the magnolia tree

I ask you to decide which one would you be?

remember choose wisely tho’ this is a game

think of all the great choices

the colors the perfume the poetic name

and centuries of lovers voices.

will you be the kind that is cut off at bloom

and sold along with the dog food and cleaner

or one of the many that are neatly lined up

by the house where the grass is so greener?

I’d be the dandelion – anarchist of plants

growing in places that others just can’t

for the dandelion cares not for the row

is not bought or sold, needs no ‘miricle grow’

not delicate nor dainty, no perfumey smell

a headache for landscapers and it smiles in the sun well,

always one there to give to your lover

with organic gold brilliance glowing

a favorite of kids to give to their mother

and pressed in a book there is forever love showing

a favorite of the guinea pig, the rabbit and bear

who munch down ‘cos they find ‘em delicious

a godsend and example of something to share

and even humans can find them nutritious!

So I’d be a dandelion-a common weed

considered plain when compared to a rose

but strong roots and sunshine give it all it needs

for the magic that everyone knows

‘cos other flowers when dead soon lose their beauty

but the dandelion sure aint like this

as in exchange for survival from your mighty breath

the dandelion gives you a wish!!!!

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“It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun”

 Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)

~*Tree of Life oil on canvas with magic wand and morning crystal rainbows by Darren Daz Cox*~

“Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden – it’s something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.”

 Joyce Cary quotes (English Writer, 1888-1957)

So I’m on the beach with my camera on this beautiful day, not for any particular purpose except that I wanted an excuse to not walk too far or fast, just fart around and soak up the sun and think. I took some pics of the sky and randomly thought about Billy Meier, the Swiss photographer who can supposedly take photographs of ufos by telepathically asking them to show up. So I asked for a ufo to show up. It was too sun-shiny bright to see in the window on my digital camera so I was just pointing and clicking and basically letting serendipity aim the camera , then after a few snaps I saw a ufo. I swear to God this photo is un-tampered with. I realized it wasn’t the Pleiadians, the aliens who visit Billy, when the thing looked like it was being tossed about by the wind. I thought it was a skydiver doing tricks then it looked like a hot air balloon that had lost the basket and was deflating, which is a pretty unusual sight and a little worrying! It was falling fast and ended up about a mile down the beach. I rushed down there to see that it was a balloon, a tissue paper job almost six feet in length! I’d never seen a balloon made out of tissue paper before and heck, I saw it first so I took it! It’s hanging like a big trophy fish from the ceiling in my apartment thanks to the convenient piece of string on the top of the balloon. I think I’ll bring it over to my niece this weekend and see if we can inflate it somehow!

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Welcome to 99daz.com the best fine art blog on the internet and in the sideral universe.

I usually draw girls and cats and the occasional horse but I suddenly realized I was drawing too much cute stuff so I had to draw a rotting zombie but then I gave him a balloon and a flying zombie cat and a hot girlfriend who laughs at his cheesy jokes…

I drew this horse, below, at my day job chatting with people on the phone, not bad for a city boy from my imagination!

I drew this one recently too, just randomly doodling and it turned into a girl in a bathtub. Oh sure, when Edgar Degas drew girls taking a bath it was fine art but you think I’m just daydreaming about about naked girls! Well, maybe i was, so there! stick that in your pipe and smoke it, it’s still art!

art is cool! thanks for visiting 99daz.com, the best art blog ever!

 making art for someone is a wonderful thing and better still when that art is appreciated…I have been enjoying drawing these tiny pencil drawings and surprising my friends with them!

Lantern girl and panda – drawn today at wurk! and below "1000 cranes" My friend Marisa told me of a Japanese legend where if you can fold a thousand origami cranes you can save someones’s life. I was really inspired by that.

I wrote on this drawing for her, "One thousand! How many to save the world?"

and below, A collage of some of the drawings I have done for my friend Marisa.

From top left to right on down: Holy carp (something Marisa says which is funny) and based on a sneeze she did, then Pheonix from a monitor then Balloon ride and bat then Monkeys at night then Pegasus saves the day then Eat more Oranges with my famous giant squid motif squeezing orange juice for a marisa motif!

Holy carp it’s hot, it suddenly went from perfect to yarrgh overnight! Anyway, welcome to the greatest art blog in Peoria Illinois USA The World. Here’s what i drew today!

Purple swimsuit girl with red balloon cooled by the breeze on a too hot day.

Pencil sketch drawn totally at random and then Photoshop tweaking, totally random by Darren Cox aka Daz the greatest artist in Peoria Illinois and the world! Same method of art used on the one below I finished yesterday, pencil sketch then Photoshop to draw the rest!

Girl sending out love and looking at flying cats by Darren Daz Cox

pencil sketch then colored and tweaked in Photoshop! I use Photoshop as an art tool and find it a nice extension to my ways of expressing my creativity. What does it mean you say? It’s random therefore it means a lot but I cannot presume to tell you what you see in it, you have to figure out your own interpretation instead of having a nice clean answer provided! Or you can just look at it and get what want out of it!

Oh and my blog is now listed on the Peoria bloggers list at Peoria.com yea! http://www.peoria.com/blogs/

I have a ritual of getting all my oil paints ready, a separate container,mason jars mostly, for each pure color mixed with various drying mediums, Japan drier, pale drying oil, cobalt drier, drying linseed oil etc. For the past week I have been consciously painting this new batch in my head, like a professional athlete does to get that total focus, as I rearranged my apartment to make maximum use of the space and allowing my subconscious to randomly remember all the things I want to include in this cycle. We now know that memories aren’t stored in any one part of the brain, in fact, memories might actually exist outside of this physical universe which makes sense when people remember near death experiences (as if the brain is no longer sending signals between neurons – clinical brain death – memories aren’t being recorded right?).

All I know for sure is that it helps in a creative sense to let those memories float in like balloons to the beach. My three part ritual of magically maximized oil painting consists of getting my apartment clean and organized (learned from Revo-Gruv!), getting my paints and supplies organized (thank you Bob Ross!), and getting my mind organized and ready (thanks to meditation/observing nature, art books, inspirational things like you guys write (aka renemberences -yes I spelled that correctly!), and a mental list of techniques and motifs I want to work with.) I was inspired to paint a raven (and will do so soon!) after reading Mrs.Chili’s cool blog post and later found this sketch I don’t remember doing sometime last year! The Keansburg NJ, beach caterpillars are doing fine and like fellow art blogger Gypsy Heart writes about in her latest blog post, life is a magical thing.

A fish cannot drown in water

A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn’t vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?

Mechthild of Magdeburg (1207 – 1297)

http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/M/MechthildofM/Afishcannotd.htm

and here’s Youdle for Youdle fans.