DIVDrawing is the backbone of art and design; with all of the tantalizing wonders of the digital world, the best designers, illustrators and artists know that it’s good to step back occasionally and hit the refresh button on your hand and mind. Playing with Sketches is a hands-on, fun approach to exploring drawing principles. Beginning with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play, this book brings you through a series of basic warm-up exercises that can be combined with later projects. Then you’ll move quickly on to more challenging and engaging exercises, including word games, dimensional shapes, and inventive sketchbooks and letterforms, eventually creating a “toolkit� of ideas and skills developed through the process of play. This book features creative, adaptable ideas, and numerous examples of designers and artists responses to each exercise, giving you a peek into their way of thinking and seeing. /divDIVWith over 25 contributors, from high-profile designers, illustrators and artists to talented graduate students, you see work that will walk you step-by-step through a process or inspire by example. The book provides meaningful outcomes for your practice, including building an image archive, being exposed to new ways to use media and tools, inspiring you to break the rules, to collaborate, and much more!/div
Besides his illustrious name, the Union general Jefferson Columbus Davis is best known for two appalling actions: the September 1862 murder of General William "Bull" Nelson -- his former commanding officer -- and the abandonment of hundreds of African American refugees to the mercy of Confederate cavalry at Ebenezer Creek during Sherman's march through Georgia in 1864. Historians have generally dismissed Davis (1828--1879) as a reckless assassin, a racist, a journeyman soldier at best, and an embarrassment to the Lincoln war effort. But Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., and Gordon D. Whitney shatter the collective memory of "Jef" Davis as a grim, destructive child of war and replace it with a more rounded portrait of a complex military leader. They bring order to the muddle of contradictions that was Davis's life and offer an impartial profile of the soldier and the man, who must be remembered for his splendid contributions as well as his startling failures.
Looking for peace, insight, understanding, and inspiration for your journey through this life and your preparation for eternity? My poetry provides a framework and meaning for the process of life--trials and tribulations, hope, faith, love, consideration, patience, marriage, parents, family relations, friendships, endurance, sacrifice, service, and Christ--a process that did not begin with birth and that does not end with death. For 50 years my pen has captured key moments from my Life's Journey in my travels from Montpelier, Idaho to Jackson Hole, Provo, Rio de Janeiro, Telluride, Carmel by the Sea, Washington D.C., Seoul, Fort Huachuca, New Haven, Lilongwe, Lagos, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Meade, Luanda, Landstuhl, Brasilia, San Francisco, Suva, Baqubah, Islamabad, Karachi, Boracay, Baghdad, and finally back to Bloomington, Idaho in Bear Lake Valley. "But peace, joy, and happiness alone would skew the test. Hurt, pain, and sorrow--Embitters, Or brings out what is best." *** "Learn to love, to share, do, and grow, But do not hold on, when it's time to go." *** "You'll live your life and may never know of the thoughts and feelings in others you sow." *** "Then begins love's test as green gives way to golden hue, and letting go is easier than holding to." *** "Ought not we to remember the poor were once as us. And too soon be we beggars, treated as we treated thus." *** "Christ is playing at my (your) heartstrings; Let Him play His tune. I am (You are) but one instrument of His glory coming soon!" *** "In the furnace of affliction God offers each a room; of each and every person the dross He would consume." *** "So much of life is illusion as fish in the sea-- not of the size, nor where they should be." *** "A plus B over 3 equals C So now we know our A, B, C's... Conflating our conflation. Dear God, please help this mixed up nation!" "He's done it all and not for self, nor glory to his name; Eternity-- Shall never be the same!" *** "May Christ's Birth awaken a Birth within you too, This I pray-- My Christmas Wish for you." *** "I do believe His offer to change us even now, Unless we wait and hesitate-- When every knee shall bow." A few selected poems from my wife, daughter, brother, son-in-law, and my best friend fill out other important dimensions of our journey through life. "Now if you think you know his name, then chances are you've felt his pain. And some my friend might think this fiction, but he is real; he's called addiction." *** "Fear not my friend, for death will come; again you'll see where you came from. For life on earth is short you see, compared to all eternity.
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