Be Peace » Art

My Smile

Dave — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:47:00 +0000

Paint Your Picture

Dave — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:29:46 +0000

I thought I would start posting some inspiring art that I’ve been working on recently. Check back often!

Love to you all.

Pictures of Dreams

Dave — Wed, 05 May 2010 06:53:27 +0000

I thought I would round up some photos that feel like they were inspired by dreams, or at least might encourage some dreaming next time you sleep.

Mandalas

Dave — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:00:33 +0000

You can find out more about these mandalas and other work at anandaphoto.com.

Be Peace Words

Dave — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:32:15 +0000

Young Artists

Dave — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:33:17 +0000

This is the second post featuring the inspired work of teenagers. This time Matt Bianco-Splann and Christopher Waddell share some of their artwork.

Chris Waddell

Love Burst

Sky Trees

Doodle

Matt Bianco-Splann

Beetle

Chris Waddell is a high school senior from North Carolina and Matt Bianco-Splann is a college freshman in New York. They are both awesome.

Hiroshige

Dave — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:56:12 +0000

I was in a used book store in Manhattan last month and stumbled upon a small book from the 1960s about Hiroshige, one of the last great Japanese ukiyo-e, or woodblock painters. It wasn’t that I instantly recognized any of the paintings inside the book, but more that they seemed familiar to me in a different way.

Hiroshige and his fellow artists in this genre painted on transparent rice paper which was then traced onto a woodblock by an assistant. Each color was then cut out with a blade by a different craftsmen, creating a complex layer of woodblocks that would be used like a stamp to create lots of prints of the same painting. These type of prints often showed landscapes and were popular with the common people in Japan (this is the 1800s we’re talking about).

I like the idea that Hiroshige’s work was only really seen as an impression, a reflection of a painting filtered through the eyes and hands of many different artists, only to end up interpreted in as many different ways as the number of people who bought his prints.

Randal Roberts

Dave — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:10:53 +0000

I’ll let Randal’s art speak for itself…

…but I will say that I first saw Randal’s portrait of Alan Watts hanging in the Omega Institute’s library. I really liked the painting, but didn’t know who the artist was, so I couldn’t find an image of it online when I remembered it and wanted to use it for an Alan Watts post I did last week.

Un-relatedly, a mutual Omega Institute friend Cori suggested to Randal that he submit something to bepeace.org. I found out Randal was the painter of that Alan Watts portrait (of course) – here it is along with some of his other work. I love fun, weird connections like that.

I hope you’ll visit his site – allofthisisforyou.com.

Kseniya Simonova

Natalie Ryan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:05:59 +0000

Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

This is an incredible artistic and moving message that I think everyone would appreciate and enjoy to watch. It’s beautiful!

Photos from a NYC winter

Dave — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:00:36 +0000

I’m in NYC for a visit, and of course we got dumped on during the weekend. Here are some pictures that will hopefully remind us that even the city isn’t exempt from the wonders that a blanket of snow can bring.

Baby in the park.

Lone winter tree. (Alright I admit it, this shot is from Vermont...)

Benches in the park.

Leaning tree.

A woman in an arch in Central Park.

(Photo by Natalie Ryan).

Xmas lights on Colombus Ave.