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a brilliant day in Venice with dazzling blue gondolas.

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Pen and ink and watercolor on paper

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self evident

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Hand etched photography
2011- 19th Annual International Festival "Five Elements/One World"- Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdale California

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In a mountain valley in Colorado I came across an old homestead. As I was snapping photos, I saw that the horseshoe was still strongly attached to the door. This was a perfect representation of the old west and the hopefulness of pioneer spirit. The watercolor paper was mounted on gatorboard and then top coated with satin polymer varnish.  The varnish makes the paper waterproof and the painting can be directly placed in a frame with no glass.

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Acrylic painting on 12X12 black gesso canvas

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What's the next step?

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"Bubble World" is the first stage of the acrylic "roller art" paintings I do on a black surface with ink brayers. I squirt out the paint onto the surface and sometimes the initial bubbly mass of paint has an interesting image of its own before I roll over it with the brayer. So I photographed it!! From 2020.

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16 x 14 rectangular oil

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Craft

This bowl was made on the pottery wheel out of Stoneware Clay. While it was leather hard, it was painted with slips to form the circular lines. It was then bisqued and it was fired in a Soda Kiln to cone 10. This Korean style brushwork is called Bucheong.

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Within You Without You
(16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas)
Within You Without You was composed on a harmonium following a dinner party at the London home of Klaus Voorman, the German artist and musician whom The Beatles first met in Hamburg. Written by George Harrison, it was the only non Lennon-McCartney song on the Sgt Pepper album.
The song was George Harrison's second full-blown Indian recording, after Revolver's Love You To. Although regarded by some as a dull interlude in the otherwise masterful Sgt Pepper, Within You Without You encapsulated the exploration of spiritual themes that had become popular in 1967's Summer of Love.
Clear references to the counterculture ('Are you one of them?') and the LSD-related ego death ('And to see you're really only very small and life flows on within you and without you') can be found amid the more other-worldly exploration of spiritual philosophy and religious teachings.
The laughter at the end of the track was Harrison's idea. While some listeners initially thought it was the sound of the other Beatles mocking his songwriting effort, it was in fact meant to lighten the mood after five minutes of sad, almost mournful, music.
Within You Without You came about after I had spent a bit of time in India and fallen under the spell of the country and its music. I had brought back a lot of instruments. It was written at Klaus Voormann's house in Hampstead after dinner one night. The song came to me when I was playing a pedal harmonium.
I'd also spent a lot of time with Ravi Shankar, trying to figure out how to sit and hold the sitar, and how to play it. Within You Without You was a song that I wrote based upon a piece of music of Ravi's that he'd recorded for All-India Radio. It was a very long piece - maybe 30 or 40 minutes - and was written in different parts, with a progression in each. I wrote a mini version of it, using sounds similar to those I'd discovered in his piece. I recorded in three segments and spliced them together later.
George Harrison
This composition of this piece came to me, appropriately enough, through meditation. I was thinking about George Harrison, not living in the material world with us any longer, but how his message goes on without him, and how, in "All Things Must Pass" the lyric;
"Sunset doesn't last all evening
A mind can blow those clouds away
After all this my love is up
And must be leaving
But it's not always going
To be this grey"
I thought it would be appropriate to have him playing a sitar on the shore at sunset, yet the sitar, being a material object, casts a shadow, while George himself is drifting in and out of existence in the material world, and casts no shadow.

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©2008 *Digital Art

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Oil on Canvas

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Profile shot of my best friend Sarah Hicks

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Foggy Night on Halloween at Strubrige Village Halloween Event Taken Year 2020

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Watercolor
20 X 15

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This picture was taken in 2014. You can find it on my website at http://destinymartinez.com/picture.php?/2257/category/2

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SLC, UT cityscape looking down from the University of Utah.

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oil, 16x20

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Acrylic on watercolour paper. 16" x 20".

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Photo of Canna Lily leaf., June 2024. Shot with iPhone SE and LED illumination. I like the little details you can see when you magnify and illuminate plant leaves.

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Watercolor on cold press 140# paper. 16" X 12".