Timothy J. Pruitt's Blog, page 97
June 21, 2022
iPainting Scottish Oil Rig
Scottish Oil Rig Industrial Art Piece
June 20, 2022
June 18, 2022
June 17, 2022
Art Unboxed Sketchbook Shorthand
Recently I’ve been doing some abstract pieces, which is a different world to me, and I’ve found a new use for my sketchbook. While I’m use to jotting down quick sketches or studies for bigger pieces, I’ve been doing a type of sketchbook shorthand lately. This is different than a normal drawing.
If I see something that triggers an idea I will quickly draw out, not the image necessarily, but the bones of the structure. At times I may do a full sketch, but many times it’s just the general lines that will build it later. From there, I’ve been developing them in my digital art, partially because I love digital art, but also because of time.
My wife surprised me with a heavy gel for use with my acrylics for Father’s Day, so there are some impasto abstract acrylics in my future. Until I get time to work on them, the sketchbook has been my shorthand, and the digital a sort of rough draft. Unknowingly, this art process has mirrored my writing process more than ever.
Also I’m also using my phone as a short of sketchbook shorthand. This means that I’m collecting images of shapes or ideas, not to draw them, but because they have some note I want to expand on. I’ve always done this with my realism drawing and painting, but it is somewhat different with abstracts.
Using my sketchbook this way has added a new layer to it, and to it’s value for me. I believe in adding value through words and pictures, it’s not just a motto, but a conviction. I hope to add value to others through them both, including through these art unboxed articles. If they are beneficial to you I’d love to hear about it @ pruittwrites@gmail.com.
June 15, 2022
Sketch Churchill Downing Street
My favorite occupant of Downing Street.
Today’s Victory
Today I woke up in a home filled with God’s love, in a full house. I woke up knowing God was for me, and my wife was beside me. I saw our son sleeping in the bed, and our dog anxious for a movement. All of this may seem arbitrary, but I remember when I didn’t even have a room of my own, much less a house.
I remember when I went to bed alone, hoping and praying for someone to share my life with. I remember ten years of praying for a child of our own. I even remember how many times our little dog kept us company while waiting, and now makes our little boy laugh.
Today’s victory started before I ever got out of bed, because we serve a God Who was watching over us long before we were ever born. Life can get us so caught up in the cares of this day we forget that He cares for us everyday. He brought us to this day, and He will carry us through it. What’s more He will keep us beyond it. Today’s victory isn’t in our circumstances, but our God.
Sketch Darth Vader Shadows Of Regret
Since Ob-Wan’s new episode airs on Wednesdays I thought this would be an appropriate sketch. Better a Jedi on the run than a Sith in the room with his regrets lol.
June 14, 2022
Happy Flag Day 2022
On this date June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress, the American flag was adopted. It is also on this date that Congress adopted the American Continental Army, making it the birthday of the U.S. Army. It was first nationally recognized in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson through a proclamation, and established in 1949 by an Act Of Congress.
On this date we celebrate a banner, but more than a piece of colored cloth. We recognize the purity of the intentions of our founders, the real blood shed for the American idea of freedom, and the nobility of the declaration that all men are created equal. We carry out their belief in the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
On this date we are so thankful that God has blessed America. We have seen many battles, and numerous victories, yet all of them were under the same banner. I am thankful to live in a country founded on the pursuit of freedom, and the hope of a better tomorrow.
