Organizing and New

January 23rd, 2012

Simplified my site at:

 

Added a new link:



This takes you to semperfigraphics.com.  I’ve owned that domain for more than five years but never did much with it.

Semper Fi is short for Semper Fidelis, the Marine Corps greeting, meaning “Always Faithful”.  I subscribe to that greeting and use it plenty between and among my fellow Marines.  Twelve years of Catholic education, with four semesters of Latin, I like my alternate translation, “Ever True”. 

Spent a couple days creating things for the first two pages.

Enjoy!  Or not….

 

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For Linda

January 16th, 2012

N.C. Wyeth Favorites

You said, “who is that artist. Find more….let me know, ok?”

Sorry for the scans. Best I can do from that old book.



The Plains Herder
Oil on canvas
37¼ x 28¾”
1908

 


Moose Hunters—A Moonlit Night
      Oil on canvas
      40 x 21½”
      1912



The Scythers
      Oil on canvas
      37½ x 26¾”
      1908



Mowing
      Oil on canvas
      37½ x 27”



The Springhouse
      Tempera on wood
      36 x 48”
      1944



Self Portrait
      Oil on canvas
      18¼ x 12¼”
      1913



Ole St. Nick (Old Kris)
Oil on canvas
41½ x 31”
1925

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Greed

January 16th, 2012


Graphic by Robert Tracy in Photoshop

“I know that this stands for something.”

“The dollar sign? For a great deal. It stands on the vest of every fat, piglike figure in every cartoon, for the purpose of denoting a crook, a grafter, a scoundrel—as the one sure-fire brand of evil. It stands—as the money of a free country—for achievement, for success, for ability, for man’s creative power—and, precisely for these reasons, it is used as a brand of infamy…Incidentally, do you know where that sign comes from? It stands for the initials of the United States.”

—Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. p. 683 (HC)

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Great Digital Art

January 15th, 2012


Good Arrowhead
Sasha Beliaev
Photoshop



Little Girl
Sasha Beliaev
Photoshop



Happiness is a Bluebird
Jose Manuel Fernandez Oli
Photoshop

 

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N.C. Wyeth

January 15th, 2012

An Old Favorite

Nightfall
N.C. Wyeth
31¾ x 40”
Tempera on wood
1945

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January 14th, 2012

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No Sport is a Team Sport

January 11th, 2012

This is an empty helmet.  Look at the Colts this year.  Many of the same good, some great players.  But missing Peyton Manning they went nowhere in their empty helmets.

A team is only as good as its individual players.

Peyton Manning was the individual whose mind was the soul of the team.

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Wouldn’t It Be Nice

January 9th, 2012



Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church
Oil on canvas
66 x 119”

 
Church’s carved signature


My little town?  Nice, but I’d want to be alone.  So this would be me,

 

waiting for my love to follow.  I’d present her with a bouquet of these:

 

 

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Getting There

January 8th, 2012

Well, getting there.  Got my custom header image up.  Note the “s” ligature. This I made purposely to make one think. The “s” ligature was used in The Declaration of Independence, although both the long-s in the beginning and middle of syllables and words, and the short-s to end them. In mine I mix these up.

But the header image is too wide.  I’ll work on that. Probably has to do with the sides and bottom….

So, no illustration this time.  Except for the header image I made in Photoshop.

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Getting to be Impossible

December 30th, 2011
Somehow lost my blog.  Somehow I got it back. How I got back my custom header image that I had created years ago in Photoshop is beyond me.  How to insert a more interesting custom header that I created in Photoshop last year is beyond me.

Because I don’t know css I’m going to have to stick with basics.

Favorite art.

Here’s a first post that features one of my favorites.


Winter Scene
Charles Leickert
Oils on canvas
1867

Click image for enlarged view.

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