High Desert
Posted in Digital Painting, Sacred Nature on May 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Posted in Digital Painting, Sacred Nature on May 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Sacred Nature, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged along the bank, art, cherry blossoms, contemporary artist, deep, digital art, Digital Painting, Haiku, Poetry, quiet path, small boats, still waters, stillness on May 5, 2008 | 10 Comments »
still deep in water
a quiet path of small boats
linger along the banks
– genece hamby, contemporary artist & poet
http://www.shibuistudio.com
Posted in Digital Painting, Digital Painting Tutorials, Sacred Nature, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged blue, color wash, day, Digital Painting, light, night, photoshop, torii, torii gate, transparency, water, watercolor on May 1, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Torii Gate in the Daylight
Torii Gate at Night
I’ve been playing with soft watercolor washes with the goal of capturing simplicity as an image of beauty. After painting a torii gate in the water during daylight, I decided to invert the file and add a moon above the gate and light dancing off the night waters. [...]
Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Nature, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged beach, beauty, blue, contemporary art, Digital Painting, Genece Hamby, grace, Haiku, island, mountains, movement, nature, ocean, Poetry, sanctuary, seas, seascape, shore, shoreline, stillness on April 16, 2008 | 8 Comments »
on blue misty seas
beauty is hidden from view
movement happens here
I’ve been working on new techniques to create water. In this painting, I used Oil Pastels from Corel Painter X to paint a wavy, smeary sea. Then, I used watercolors and flat brush over the sea in a deeper blue. I saved the file and re-opened [...]
Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Floral, Sacred Nature, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged beauty, contemporary art, death and decay, death and dying, Digital Painting, Genece Hamby, grace, Haiku, letting go, passing away, Poetry, rose, stillness, sweet surrender on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
enwrapped by sunlight
still waters flood the tulip
in sweet surrender
-– genece hamby, contemporary artist & poet
http://www.shibuistudio.com
Posted in Digital Painting, Sacred Nature, Thoughts & Writing, tagged acts of kindness, blessings, inner peace, letting go, life's lessons, llving in the moment, self acceptance, self esteem, unconditional love, wisdom on March 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Life’s lessons come in a variety of forms and in varying degrees of learning. There are premium lessons that shake you at the very roots of your existence. Basics that teach you daily how to improve upon the things you do at home, at school, socially, in your relationships or in your career. Lessons that [...]
Posted in Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Nature, tagged contemporary art, digital art, Digital Painting, Genece Hamby, Haiku, Poetry, winding road on March 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Colors shape and move
along the still winding road
across the soul’s path
– genece hamby, contemporary artist & poet
http://www.shibuistudio.com
Posted in Digital Painting, Sacred Nature on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Splatters of colored dots against a light blue and white wash of color kept evolving into this painting of trees.
Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Nature, tagged contemporary art, Digital Painting, fine art prints, Genece Hamby, Haiku, note cards, Poetry, tree frog on February 20, 2008 | 7 Comments »
feeling out of breath
riding the banana leaf
is hands down, way cool
– genece hamby, contemporary artist & poet
http://www.shibuistudio.com
Posted in Digital Painting, Haiku, Poetry, Sacred Nature, Stillness, Beauty and Grace, tagged contemporary art, contemporary artist, digital art, Digital Painting, digital painting tutorial, Genece Hamby, Haiku, mountain lake, mountains, Poetry, waterfall on February 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
folding one color
into higher altitudes
the paint smears richness
I started this painting with smearing colors on a blank canvas in Corel Painter X. As I added another color, I saved the file and re-opened it in Adobe Photoshop to work with the Liquify Filter in order to shape color into mountains, a lake and waterfall. I’d save [...]