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With Pen and InkMelissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-49682455363564611332015-10-27T12:53:00.000-05:002015-10-27T12:53:43.243-05:00Tiny Jewels<br />
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A friend once said my drawings are "jewel-like treasures" when she saw one hanging with four other art works that were full color paintings. She said it stood out in it's black and white richness from all the color. That made me think about creating some "tiny jewels"--2 1/2" square drawings. I've loved drawing a variety of subjects (I always like the challenge of drawing something I haven't drawn before); and look forward to creating more such as the crab I'm working on now. I also thought these small, less expensive drawings would be a good way to help people interested in collecting original art to get started. These are the first 11 that I've drawn.Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-24013962799504502382015-09-03T12:49:00.000-05:002015-09-03T12:49:30.564-05:00Whimsical Numbers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I’ve finished illustrating numbers 0-9. These were as much fun to do as the alphabet. Since I did the numbers based on alliteration (words that start with the same sound are used close together in a phrase or sentence. The sound is usually a consonant), it was a bit harder to decide what images to use. I thought an image of a zeppelin was perfect for zero. They don’t exist anymore and certainly were never zippy. Zeppelins were named after German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who designed these steerable balloons with metal “skeletons”. They were used during WWI and routinely made transatlantic flights. Zeppelins were so popular that the spire on the top of the Empire State Building was designed as a docking mast for zeppelins. (That proved to be impractical due to serious updrafts.) Here they are:<br /> </div>
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0 Zippy Zeppelins<br /> 1 Woeful Wolf<br /> 2 Tipsy Towers<br /> 3 Thriving Thistles<br /> 4 Frisky Foxes<br /> 5 Flamboyant Flamingos<br /> 6 Scrappy Scarecrows<br /> 7 Shapely Sheep<br /> 8 Ageless Angels<br /> 9 Nifty Neckties</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">It's not too late to sign up for my online workshop with Artful Gathering. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">One of my students in my online workshop for Artful Gathering Art Retreats: "Thanks for taking the time to put together this course. It is something I have needed for a long time. I am getting started tonight." It's not too late, you'll be able to sign up for the course for the next two weeks. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">If you're a beginner and learn from the very beginning about values, you'll find that things move along more quickly for you. That's why I start off with exercises using pencil, which is easier and isn't as intimidating as pen and ink, so you can concentrate on learning to see the values. Then we go to ink so that you can see the difference in using just lines as opposed to shading with pencil. So, whether you're a beginner or have drawing experience, you'll get a lot out of <a href="http://atozinnia.org/event-information/" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">this class</a></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;">. <span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">See you there!</span></span></span></span>Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-60484229231349895862015-05-15T20:58:00.004-05:002015-05-15T20:58:41.941-05:00The Value of Values<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm thrilled to be one of the faculty members for Artful Gathering's Online Art Retreats for 2015. I'll be teaching about values--how to see them, how to draw them. If you'd like to learn how to bring your art to life by using values that will make your work pop with depth, please sign up now for the workshop. I'd love to work with you. The workshop is set up with an online classroom and we'll be able to communicate and post work as it progresses. I'll be able to answer any questions you might have. I'm looking forward to having a great time with all of my students. There are two sessions of workshops and mine will be in the first session from June 6th-July 17th. You can go at your own pace! Click <a href="http://atozinnia.org/catalog-2/">here</a> to see the catalog and get all the information you need. Look forward to seeing you soon!Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-17365573838577350282015-03-02T21:57:00.000-06:002015-03-02T22:08:33.589-06:00Illustrated Alphabet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've just finished creating an illustrated alphabet, something I've always wanted to do. I had so much fun creating the drawings. I wanted it to be whimsical, being appropriate for children and appealing to adults. Also, I didn't want to use the typical "A" is for apple, "D" is for dog images. My only homage to such an alphabet is the cat I used for "C".<br />
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"X" was the hardest to decide on an image for and I was determined not to draw a xylophone.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background: white; color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">Happily, I discovered that cactus is a xerophyte
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little water. Who knew?? So, here's my whimsical alphabet for you to enjoy.
Prints (two sizes), individual letter prints and note cards
are available at my<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/melissabtubbs?ref=hdr_shop_menu">Etsy Shop</a></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; line-height: 115%;">. Twenty-three of the original drawings are
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<br />Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-26572847689536541202015-01-21T12:52:00.001-06:002015-01-21T12:53:14.287-06:00Review Video of Sketching 365 Book<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I love the way this review video has been made "thumbing through" Katherine's new book with my drawing in it! It's been wonderful to see my drawings published in books and there's still the same thrill each time I see one. You can see my drawing "Shadow Palms" about the 1:04 minute mark. Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe1muf7Qhqo">here</a> to see the video.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px;"><strong>New Book:</strong><em> Sketching 365</em> is a book about building your confidence with a tip a day for drawing and sketching by UK artist and writer Katherine Tyrrell. It’s available in three versions: UK, USA and Asian. Each version has a different cover, a different title and a different publisher, but everything inside is exactly the same. My drawing “Shadow Palms” is included in the book and is one of the images featured on the back cover of the UK version, above. The USA version is available in book stores now titled <em>365 Days of Drawing and Sketching. </em>The UK version can be purchased on <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sketching-365-Build-confidence-skills/dp/1845435567/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421625657&sr=1-1&keywords=sketching+365">Amazon UK</a>. Read more about the book, its author and all the artists included at</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px;"> <a href="http://makingamark.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/new-book-called-sketching-365.html">Making A Mark</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px;">I can't wait for my copy to arrive. Thank you Katherine for including me in this wonderful book!</span>Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-9392676576125294372015-01-01T16:48:00.001-06:002015-01-01T16:48:23.026-06:00Empty Easel Revisited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've just put a new item in my etsy shop. Gift tags that turned out just the way I'd hoped. I used an original drawing of an angel with a dove on his shoulder and printed them in a dark teal color. I've used that teal as an accent color on my new website and really like the way it looks with black. I wanted to keep the cards simple so I decided to use the one color to make them a bit more festive for use on gifts. Please take a look and learn more about them!<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/205570442/gift-tag-enclosure-cards-reproduction-of?"> <b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">http://tinyurl.com/ob5lce3</b></a><br />
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<br />Thanks to <i>Art Galleries and Artists of the South</i> for including me in their "Of Interest" section in their latest issue (Vol.11 No.2). They've done a fantastic job. They really do a great job keeping us up-to-date on art created in the South.Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-6724937438748901792014-08-06T15:47:00.001-05:002014-08-06T15:47:24.895-05:00Bibb Graves Bridge Wetumpka, AL <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">Commissioned by a client in Ashland, AL, he'd taken a photo of the bridge years ago that he said wasn’t very good so he threw it away. He asked me if I would draw it in pen and ink for him in a very horizontal shape including the Presbyterian Church at the end of the bridge. The bridge crosses the Coosa River, is 83 years old and is a favorite landmark in the area. It was filmed in the circus scene in Tim Burton's movie "Big Fish". The original is 11” x 25 5/8” and is available as a print through my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/198428038/reproduction-print-of-original-pen-and?">etsy shop</a>.</span>Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-38823931571026359522014-07-10T13:14:00.000-05:002014-07-10T13:43:48.578-05:00Samford Hall at Auburn University<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sherman’s assault on Atlanta meant reopening “Old Main,” and other facilities of the closed East Alabama Male College for care of Confederate wounded. The State of Texas helped pay for the services, and the place became known as the Texas Hospital. In July 1864, more than 400 Texans were treated there. Many Texas soldiers never made it home from east Alabama and are buried in Pine Hill Cemetery.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Samford Hall in the 1890s</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was rebuilt in 1888 from plans by Bruce and Morgan, architects with James Smith as the contractor. A ceremony was held the first day of construction with Charles B. Glenn, at the age of eight, laying the first brick. Samford Hall was officially named for Governor William James Samford in May, 1929. Through the years, the interior of this building has been renovated many times to meet the changes of a growing college. Samford Hall originally had a bell that rang every hour for classes, and although the bell still remains in the tower, an electrically controlled clock marks the time now.</span><br />
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This drawing was commissioned by a client as an anniversary gift for her husband. His father owned a small newspaper which was published in this building. It was called the News Bee and sold for 5 cents a copy back when he was helping his father as a young man. My client even helped when she was dating her husband. The building was torn down several years ago so she's giving him the drawing to bring back warm memories of a special time in his life.<br /><br /><span style="color: black;">It's not too early to commission a special drawing for someone you love for Christmas. Please </span><a href="mailto:inkartist@knology.net?subject=Commissions&body=Yes%2C%20I'd%20like%20to%20talk%20to%20you%20about%20creating%20a%20drawing.%20Please%20call%20me%20at%3A" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_self"><span style="color: black;">email me</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and arrange a call to talk about what you'd like me to create for you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><em>"Often during the day, I return to my childhood home. I approach it from my favorite angle by way of its curving driveway that ends aside three graceful arched windows bringing light into the sun porch. I approach by the side of a grandfatherly oak tree, majestically standing.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><em>Melissa Tubbs makes this daily journey possible.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><em>As soon as I asked her to draw the home my siblings and I soon would be selling, Melissa began asking me what I hoped to be preserved in an ink drawing she would render. It's as though she listened into her hands.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><em>Melissa's drawing jumps off the page and into a mind of memories. It's warmth of light and the shadows formed when that light is filtered through trees is astounding. It offers the chance to stand again in that place and to appreciate fully the moments spent inside a grand, old friend. Thanks to </em></span><span style="color: black;"><em>Melissa's exquisite drawing of fine, simultaneously strong and sensitive lines, of contrasts that form texture and depth, I'll forever feel--no matter how far away--I'm driving up the driveway, home."</em></span><br />
<br /> <strong> --Jan Weil, New York City, NY</strong><br /><br />
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was recently commissioned to create a drawing for a soon to be released CD by
Ben deHoedt of Melbourne, Australia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indians to Heaven is built on the idea of
reversing the meaning of lyrics to Pantera songs. (Pantera was an extremely popular
metal band from Arlington, Texas, formed in 1981.) Indians to Heaven (the name
itself an antonym to Pantera’s moniker, Cowboys from Hell) represents the work
of Aleks Habus and Ben, who have each written and recorded their own “antonyms”
of Pantera’s album “The Great Southern Trendkill.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has titled his album “A Quiet Life Up North,” and Ben has titled his “The
Gentle Northern Wind.” They have co-written one song which appears on both
albums with a different title, lyrics and production. While each album is a
complete package, written and performed independently by Aleks and Ben, they
are both “Indians to Heaven” albums.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“A
Quiet Life Up North” is a pastoral celebration of life in Ascot Vale, a suburb
north-west of Melbourne. Songs about love, domesticity, lemon trees and the
Ascot sunlight are occasionally interrupted with the atmosphere that the dusk
brings to the Vale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gentle Northern Wind” tells the story of a charismatic stranger who offers salvation
to a community of defeated people, in a narrative told from multiple
perspectives. <em><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Conceived as the lyric “reversal’ process for the title song, the
emerging themes were shaped into a story reminiscent of Stephen King or Clive
Barker and musically traverses several genres, although mostly serving as a
love letter to 1970’s progressive rock.</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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thoroughly enjoyed the process and experience of working with Ben to create the
drawing for his cover. He sent me the lyrics to his songs and described what he
envisioned for the drawing including samples of Alfred Rethel’s prints for the look
he was interested in achieving. (Rethel was a German printmaker in the early-to-mid-1800s.)
He wanted a skeletal reaper “pied piper” on a white stallion with sad, tired, frightened
people following him. The setting is the desert in the American west of the
late 1800s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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emailing sketches back and forth, tweaking and fine-tuning here and there, we
had the final drawing (above right) which we’re both extremely happy with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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albums will be released via Bandcamp<em><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></em><em><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">very soon with
singles from each to be released prior to this. Ben released his single “His
Softly Spoken Words” April 25<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup> and you can to it at <a href="http://indianstoheaven.bandcamp.com/">http://indianstoheaven.bandcamp.com/</a></span></span></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I've just completed this pen-and-ink drawing of Toomer's Drugs, Toomer's Corner in downtown Auburn, AL which will be part of my exhbition at Stonehenge Gallery in May. I've created prints and note cards of the drawing and you may now purchase them in my Etsy shop (scroll down to the link on the right side of the page) Toomer's has always been well known for their fabulous lemonade and it's always one of your stops when you're in Auburn. This would make a great graduation gift for an Auburn graduating senior. Or, you could by the companion piece, Auburn Oak, for a set.Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-9574953634737364742014-02-10T13:05:00.000-06:002014-02-10T13:05:25.233-06:00Art and a Cookbook<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“A
Cookbook for Katie” by Daphne Simpkins is not your average cookbook. The
recipes are laced with history (of ingredients and family dynamics),
suggestions for ways of doing things (creating cornbread with crust, making
meringue, separating eggs—it’s a sin to throw yolks away, they are given to the
dogs, one yolk per dog, including the neighbor’s dog, Mr. Mooney) and woven in
between delightful stories. </span></div>
<br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Several
months ago Daphne asked if she could reference my work in the book. The
reference is in the last essay “The Bride’s Room.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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in front of a series of carefully crafted drawings, I experience Melissa Tubbs’
exquisite work on the wall. They are architectural drawings of specific
locations of this building. Deceptively austere, they draw you into not the
place they represent but into a timelessness, a serenity so peaceful that I can
hear the whisper from heaven, ‘Be still and know that I am God.’ In those
pictures I enter that stillness and know a deeper way of breathing, of being,
but once I turn away I find myself wondering about the artist who capture those
still moments. I deduce that the artist has a pure heart, and I wonder what that
feels like and if she sees God. The Bible says that pure-hearted people do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hand it’s amazing for me that I could be seen as pure-hearted, on the other
hand, that is what creating art is all about--making a profound connection deep
within a person for the better. My hope is always that it would be true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This is
a delightfully good read. As Daphne says, “…eating and recipes always come with
stories. That’s one of the reasons they taste so good.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Get your
copy at bookstores and on Amazon. As a matter of fact,
beginning on Valentine’s Day you can get a free Kindle version of the book on
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />I’m pleased to be a participant in the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts exhibition <em>Creator/Created: Jerry Siegel Portraits and Artists from the Permanent Collection</em> which will be on view from March 8 through June 1, 2014.<br /> <br />Over the past few decades Siegel has captured intimate moments with our region’s most creative artists. By providing details such as what the artists look like or where they work, he creates an important visual record that illuminates the rich art-making culture of the South. Pairing works from the permanent collection with Siegel’s portraits of their creators, allows the fresh interpretations of the art works and new insight into their makers.<br /> <br />The opening reception on Thursday, April 10<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup> will begin with a gallery talk from 5:30 to 6:00 with Jerry Siegel and participating artists, followed by the reception. Please mark your calendars and plan on being in Montgomery to join us for a unique art-and-artist-filled evening!</span></span></div>
<br />Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-57623639911031040642014-01-14T15:40:00.001-06:002014-01-14T15:44:35.866-06:00Commission for Holiday BirthdayThis commission is a beautiful log house on a lake. Great present for a birthday a couple of days after Christmas.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is Peculiar People Day! <span style="color: #0f0f0f;">Peculiar People Day is in honor of uniquely different
people. Un-ordinary, extraordinary, unusual, strange, odd, uncommon,
intriguing, different, abnormal, and quirky.... These are all things that we
think of to describe the word "peculiar". Most of these characteristics
can be viewed as good, or not so good. Today is a day to look for the good in
your peculiar acquaintances.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kub6BQzkuJA/UtAlECOCTcI/AAAAAAAABp8/r0wo8lr06aE/s1600/Edward+Gorey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kub6BQzkuJA/UtAlECOCTcI/AAAAAAAABp8/r0wo8lr06aE/s1600/Edward+Gorey.jpg" height="200" width="199" /></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my favorite Peculiar People is Edward Gorey. Born February 22, 1925, died April 15, 2000, Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Edwardian settings. He often dressed his characters the way he dressed, in a long fur coat or tennis shoes.<br /></span></span><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"He was a cartoonist in the widest definition and a major
illustrator in the smallest," Theroux says. "But I think his
particular style grew out of the fascination with pen and ink drawings. He once
told me it was so hard to get a book published in color in the early 1950s that
all his books were in black and white. And his drawings got more and more
oblique — his subject matter was the 1920s, and he always fit his drawings to
that particular world, the Edwardian period."</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"If you asked him what was behind<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border: 1pt windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The Dwindling Party</span></em>, which was a mysterious pop-up
book," Theroux says, "he would say, 'I'll leave you to tell me — I
don't even know.' He loved that phrase, 'I don't even know.' "<br /><br /><br />
"Edward was one of the few people I ever knew who did exactly what he
wanted," he says. "He went his own way."<br /></span></span><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(The Strange Case of Edward Gorey, Alexander Theroux)</span></span><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GOb6qoEURJ4/UtAmMOFqiDI/AAAAAAAABqE/RB6MSre-NsM/s1600/The+Doubtful+Guest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GOb6qoEURJ4/UtAmMOFqiDI/AAAAAAAABqE/RB6MSre-NsM/s1600/The+Doubtful+Guest.jpg" height="140" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gorey wrtoe more than 90 books, illustrated 60 others, and designed sets (he won a Tony award for the set of Dracula). He created the animated opening for PBS's Mystery! <br /><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPlY_7RR1h0"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPlY_7RR1h0</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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My favorite book by Gorey is The Doubtful Guest which is the story of a solemn, mysterious, outdoor creature, dressed in sneakers and a scarf that appears one winter night at a family's Victorian home and never leaves again.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
learn something about drawing with pen and ink each time I look at his
drawings.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span>Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-22830367388802936182014-01-06T13:32:00.003-06:002014-01-06T14:09:22.243-06:00A Surprise Commission for a Husband<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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client wanted to surprise her husband for Christmas with not one but two
drawings of their home, front and back. He loves to work on landscaping their
yard and has really done a beautiful job. It's always fun to work with
clients I've worked with before which was the case here. I'd drawn their
previous home for them several years ago.</span>Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-1246878302136184662013-12-18T16:37:00.000-06:002013-12-18T16:37:48.266-06:00Sarah's Daisy<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">My granddaughter's favorite flower is the daisy and she asked me to draw one for her 16th birthday in November. Someone brought the pitcher and flower to the Alabama Art Colony in October, so I took advantage of the sunshine and got a great picture to use for the drawing. Sarah and I were talking about taking it to be framed and I asked her if she would like to put it in my etsy shop as a reproduction print so that other daisy lovers could buy it. She thought that was a great idea :~) and we are proud to share Sarah's Daisy with you. Click the link to go to etsy: </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/l4trdpt" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/l4trdpt</a><br />
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Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-68198016749791435632013-12-02T11:19:00.000-06:002013-12-02T11:19:46.590-06:00Black Friday CrowCongratulations to June Wiley of Los Angeles, CA, the winner of the Black Friday Crow Giveaway!<br />
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Thanks to all who entered the contest. I hope that everyone learned a little something they never knew about black before. Look for more fun giveaways in the future with a little learning mixed in.Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-3114299497912884982013-11-29T16:17:00.000-06:002013-11-29T16:17:35.899-06:00Things You Never Knew About Black: Interesting Facts<span style="font-family: inherit;">A black cat crossing your path is considered bad luck in many cultures, except in England where spotting a black cat is considered good luck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Black implies weight--people will think a black box weighs more than a white one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Musicians in an orchestra pit often wear all black during live concerts so as not to draw attention away from the stage performers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The color black is so widely regarded as sophisticated in fashion that the term "the new black" is often used to describe and give merit to a color trend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One old wives' tale claims that if a woman is buried wearing the color black, she'll come back to haunt the family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. Jigor Kano, founder of Judo, created divisions among students using belt colors in order to give students recognition for certain achievements. Black symbolizes the combination of all colors of the universe. From black, all colors originate and sprint up to create the lively rainbow. The Black Belt is the beginning of true achievement, understanding and wisdom, and blending the mind and the body into one, into a unity within oneself and with the universe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Black gives the feeling of perspective and depth, but a black background </span>diminishes<span style="font-family: inherit;"> readability.</span><br />
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In heraldry, black is the symbol of grief.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Black Friday Crow Giveaway<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm giving away one of my black (Friday) crow prints. This is a reproduction print of an original pen-and-ink drawing. The image area for framing is 5 1/4" x 5 5/16" and is printed on an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of acid free, warm off-white paper. This is also the crow that is being used as set decoration on Charlie Sheen's TV show, Anger Management.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">To Enter:</span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"> Simply email me your name to: inkartist@knology.net. Please put </span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Black Friday Crow</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in the subject line. </span>I must receive your email by midnight this Friday, November 29th to be eligible.<span style="font-weight: normal;">You must be 18 in order to enter.</span></span></div>
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Melissa B. Tubbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687487615440566090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34521114.post-30416367472256659972013-11-29T11:06:00.000-06:002013-11-29T11:06:06.170-06:00Things You Never Knew About Black: Expressions<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Black
Friday originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the heavy,
disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur the day after
Thanksgiving. The term was first used before 1961 and began being used outside
of Philadelphia around 1975. Later it was said that retailers traditionally
operated at a financial loss from January through November, and “Black Friday”
indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or “in the
black”. <span style="background-color: white;">Black
Friday shopping is known for attracting aggressive crowds, with annual reports
of assaults, shootings, and throngs of people trampling on other shoppers in an
attempt to get the best deal on a product before supplies run out.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you're getting out there today, please be careful and be kind!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Black Friday also refers to a particularly disastrous day for financial markets. The first black Friday, September 24 1869, was caused by the efforts of two speculators, Jay Gould and James Fisk, to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"In the black" means profitable. Accountants originally used black ink in ledgers to indicate profit, and red ink to indicate loss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A blacklist is a list of undesirable person or entities--to be placed on the list is to be blacklisted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Black comedy is a form of comedy dealing with morbid and serious topics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A black mark against a person relates to something bad they have done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A black mood is a bad one. Winston Churchill's clinical depression, which he called "my black dog".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Black Market is used to denote the trade of illegal goods, or alternatively the illegal trade of otherwise legal items at considerably higher prices, such as to evade rationing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Black propaganda is the use of known falsehoods, partial truths, or masquerades in propaganda to confuse the opponent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Blackmail is the act of threatening someone to do something that would hurt them in some way, such as by revealing sensitive information about them, in order to force the threatened party to fulfill certain demands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If the black eight-ball, in billiards, is sunk before all others are out of play the player loses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The black sheep of the family is a ne'er-do-well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To blackball someone is to block their entry into a club or some such institution. In the traditional English gentlemen's club, members vote on the admission of a candidate by secretly placing a white or black ball in a hat. If upon the completion of voting, there was even one black ball among the white, the candidate would be denied membership, and he would never know who had "blackballed" him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The black" is a wildfire suppression term referring to a burned area on a wildfire capable of acting as a safety zone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Black belt is the highest awarded belt in the martial arts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Black Friday Crow Giveaway<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm giving away one of my black (Friday) crow prints. This is a reproduction print of an original pen-and-ink drawing. The image area for framing is 5 1/4" x 5 5/16" and is printed on an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of acid free, warm off-white paper. This is also the crow that is being used as set decoration on Charlie Sheen's TV show, Anger Management.</span></span></h3>
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<b style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">To Enter:</b><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"> Simply email me your name to: inkartist@knology.net. Please put </span><b style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Black Friday Crow</b><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in the subject line. </span>I must receive your email by midnight this Friday, November 29th to be eligible.<span style="font-weight: normal;"> You must be 18 in order to enter.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"></span><b style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">Notification:</b><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"> The winner will be picked at random and will receive an email Monday morning and I will post the winner on my blog and social media sites.</span></span></span></h3>
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