Fall Festival at Rassawek
Each year there is a local festival at the Rassawek Winery. Here’s my sketchbook painting of the experience. See more of my sketchbook art here: https://www.mikeshawtoday.com/art/
Virginia Beach, VA
Here is one from my sketchbook. I took a short vacation to Virginia Beach and decided to use that trip as an opportunity to add to my sketchbook. In one of the art courses I’m taking with Mattias Adolffson, he suggests doing a self portrait yourself from the rear. More of my sketch-booking can be …
Do Not Seek, Simply Look
The dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become merely shows and mock us with their unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and it is mere tinsel. It will not please us as much as when its …
Has This Happened To You?
Many go out for wool and return shorn. Cervantes.
Listening Attentively
What is any man’s discourse to me, if I am not sensible of something in it as steady and cheery as the creak of crickets? Henry David Thoreau.
James Bond Land Rover
Here’s an update on the classic Land Rover featured in the much awaited James Bond movie. Bond Edition Land Rover To Launch In Luxury Auction at Sotheby’s by Beth Lenihan A Bond edition Land Rover S3 has been released following trailers of No Time to Die The vintage rebuild will go on sale by auction …
What is Beauty?
Whatever is beautiful at all is beautiful in itself. Its beauty ends there, and praise has no part in it. Nothing is the better or the worse for being praised. Thus true beauty needs nothing beyond itself, any more than law, or truth, or kindness, or honor. For none of these gets a single grace …
Find Balance In Your Life
Length and shortness create each other, from each other. The ideas of height and lowness arise from a contrast between the two. The musical notes of the scale become harmonious melodies and chords through the relation of one with another, and the spaces in between. Anything which is in front of, has something behind it. …