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    LOVE IT SO MUCH!
    Sand 'tween my toes
    and minimal clothes
    make for fun in the sun
    yeah you know it!

    but the seashore at night
    is a sensual sight
    as the moonbeams
    sow love seeds for poets!

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    Time
    Time is a weird thing
    goes sooo slow when yer
    waiting for the bell to ring
    goes fast on Christmas
    and sunny days
    and when you're in love
    it compresses and strays,
    time is elastic
    and sometimes like glue
    but it's never wasted
    when I talk to you!

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    Artists
    all great artists seem full of doubt
    there is too much inside
    and not enough out
    but each piece of art
    makes someones day,
    perhaps our souls
    need it that way.

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    kharmalade
    Would this have made
    a good last day?
    did I accomplish
    any kharmalade goal?
    did I climb some sunsetted peak

    by the bay
    to placate my expectant soul?
    no, but i did take a second
    to look around
    like that dude
    with his own Iron Chefs,
    and in that infinity portal
    i'll go as a mortal
    suspecting it's all for the best....

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    SOMETHING GOOD
    I remember something good
    back when days
    unfolded like
    a grand adventure should.
    I don't want to just fit in
    be functional like some machine,
    I want a purpose
    need the wind
    to blow the scent of fortune
    on my skin.
    Are you of that small percent
    who cannot fold
    who will not bend
    who takes a soul and strips it bare
    not because you can
    but because it's there... ?

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    You Is You
    You are you and that is good
    you may not be what they say you should
    or be that which you cannot be
    and you wouldn't want to be like me
    but I see you as you and so
    if you see me unmasked say "yo"
    "what makes Me me is all unique
    what makes us Us makes us complete"

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    I Artist
     i sometimes wonder

    if it is so
    that I am an artist 
    simply because i say so
    was I born with talent
    to write or to paint?
    a prodigy perhaps?
    there's no doubt that I aint
    not a leader or lackey
    no big money schemes
    but an artist 
    resulting from having big dreams
    they say visualise
    what you want to be
    regardless of what people say
    and all will come true
    quite possibly
    maybe
    some happy day!!

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    THE DANDYLION STAR
    Amongst the speckled field of black
    I saw the dandylion star
    it winked at me
    and I winked back
    and sent that wish up far,
    the other stars
    looked more like gems
    like diamonds stuck in tar,
    but I liked the mellow
    glow of the yellow
    wonderful dandylion star.
    like crystal fish the others sit
    cold like a platinum bar,
    but how can you miss
    when you make a wish
    upon the dandylion star?

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    WE TWO STARS
    We two stars
    burn so intense
    without pretence or fuss
    and what would we say
    if somewhere far away
    someone made a wish upon us?
    for the darker the night
    the brighter the light
    that shines for every face
    so get up and stay
    in the vast milky way
    and add your light to the space!

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    "Five 46PM" acrylic on canvas 36x48 inches 2003

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Red Dragon from painting to graphic design

This an oil painting I did a year or so ago. It started as a charcoal sketch on the canvas then layers of oil glazes were added. Oil glazes are translucent and refract light so the effect is a deep rich color!

Red Dragon : oil on canvas 8x10

Then after scanning the painting into Photoshop I chopped it up, duplicated parts and mirrored parts!

 

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I finally settled on this version below as my favorite 99daz red dragon graphic!

 

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and here’s the original charcoal sketch on the canvas! no prepatory sketches for this one, in fact, I haven’t done a prepatory sketch for any painting. I find that being spontanious on the canvas is a more satisfying process.

 

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6 Responses to “Red Dragon from painting to graphic design”

  1. You’re right, those oil glazes have created a beautiful richness and with the green complimentary background, that makes for one good looking dragon!

    Lyshs last blog post..Road to Nowhere

  2. I wasn’t intending on posting tonight, but ran across some sites that led me to you. Thought I’d drop a line and comment on your post. Your work is fantastic, and I mean that literally :) So, keep on posting and doin what you do best. Hopefully, we can colaborate a bit more while I’m at DJA. Draw an amber lion for me? A commission. I would love that. Talk to ya soon.

    Karinas last blog post..Christiana Morgan Intro

  3. I loved seeing the process..from sketch to paint to graphic. The energy of this piece continues!

    I emailed you about the zine..did you receive it?

    Good and creative energies to you.

    ~gypsy-heart

    gypsy=hearts last blog post..All Around the Light

  4. I loved this painting when I saw it on flickr — I really like the sketch, too, it has a very Celtic feel. Would love to see a version of it in metal for jewelry.

    Nicola O.s last blog post..IOU

  5. Daz,

    I thought I left a comment the last time I camt to look at this red dragon. I must not have hit send. That’s what I get for trying to comment late at night. I love the richness of the vibrant red. When my son Michael was younger I wrote a children’s story called Michael and the Dragon. That would have made a perfect dragon for it.

  6. You have been quiet as of late..is all okay? I certainly hope so! :)
    gypsy-hearts last blog post..Painting Palette and Storms

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