Happy Valentines Day!

A Dillar, a dollar
I'm a ten o'clock
scholar
With my heart in plain
sight on my sleeve
Tho' I look
kind of blue
I'm crazy
for you
Which I'll prove
if you'll just
give me leave!

Below is my gift for the hubby. It is still wet with glue and I doubt that I will be able to grout it today, but we shall see. It really needs to dry. It is a small mosaic squid with heart. It measures around 10 inches by 5 inches. I think I will use a dark grout.

Shooter The Wheaten Terrier

This is Shooter from Canada. We worked on this pup last holiday season. Shooter's human sent us this fun photo of their portrait hanging.
I love seeing our art in the home or next to the pets. I just set up a category section on the blog for "Client Walls" ...so send us your photos folks, I would love to post them here on the blog.

Line Art And Hair Brush For Illustrator

"This brush is for use with Adobe Illustrator Download link. To install it on older version of Adobe Illustrator like CS... close AI, and put this file in your Illustrator System Folder \Presets\Brushes\ , Reopen AI and it should be in your brush library now to use. This brush is good for using for hair (and eyebrows) as well as line art." Author's Profile

Dog Art Murals and Mosaics

Mosiac Mural from Tokyo

Ok ... one more post this week from Flickr finds. I searched for dog art murals and found some inspiring stuff. If you want to click through on the images you will land in the photographer's photo-stream.

(above) another shot of Hachiko mural outside Shibuya Station

(above) Mosaic mural created by 7th graders

Not all of my results are of actual dog art ...but I adore this image (above)



(above) looks like a detail from larger piece. Love the text... "Dog Talk Sad Dog"

(above) again... not dog art, but the capture of the lady & dog in shadow are great. The mural says: "I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world"
(above) odd painted mural from Amsterdam

You can hot-link and blog images over at Flickr unless the photographer chooses to set up their posting preferences to not allow it. If someone wants to share their images only via Flickr's interface they have that option. So on that note ...there were just a few additional images I wanted to share with you, but you will have to click through to see them. One is a nice capture of a mosaic outside of Diego Rivera's house. Then there is the pink poodle mosaic sign for Lala's. And last there is this white dog mosaic.

Next week I will share a few more finds with you. I do not want to burn you guys out on this stuff. The last few days of image posting have really inspired me. It is interesting that the crudest grafitti scribble can stimulate and excite your creative imagination as much as the sophisticated and well crafted work like the Tokyo mosaic.

The first post is always the hardest.

Hmmm.

Now that I've got that over with...where to start?! Well, I'm using this blog in the manner of its origins...as an online diary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog). I have many artistic projects whirling around my head, but the two ideas that are foremost in my mind are going to be the subject of this blog. For the time being. Until the other ideas bustle forward and steal the limelight :)

In the meantime...meet the family...

Yet Another Dog Graffiti Wall

stilllifeonalazyday
Originally uploaded by urban penguin

The photographer that posted this image to Flickr calls this "Still Life on a lazy day". I love the composition here and that wonderful odd door. The other day when I woke up at 5:00 a.m. I spent an hour tagging doggy Graffiti images as favorites over at Flickr, so you may see a few more of my favorites later this week.

Flickr is just the coolest place on earth to search for images of any certain theme. You can enter the phrase "purple zebra" and probably find several results. I also have bookmarked some great dog art murals that I want to share with you tomorrow.

More Dog Art Graffitti

I really liked yesterday's dog art graffitti so I went searching over at Flickr for more cool graffitti dogs. I have posted a few below, you can click images to visit the photographer's photostreams.

The image above is a stenciled image of a dog getting friendly with R2-D2. It might be a tad crude for the Art Dog Blog, but I love this photograph with the pink & orange, it is a great shot.

This last image is my favorite.