It is yet another Wordless Wednesday and today I want to share one of the neatest commercial advertising art books I’ve run across since I regularly began searching through the Internet Archive. If the absolutely amazing resource is properly searched using the advanced search function, it is relatively easy to search for material containing images […]
Freebie Digital Background Images and Textures
I love playing with graphics. I talk about this love at least once a week it seems. So even though I posted some images yesterday, I want to share some textures I created. Yes, I am working on an Autumn-themed project. I created these images using Gimp, a free to download, open source drawing program. […]
10 Early 20th Century Advertising Images
It is Wordless Wednesday, so today I’m reproducing some advertising images from 1910. Source Poster advertising : being a talk on the subject of posting as an advertising medium, with helpful hints and sensible suggestions to poster advertisers, and with thirty-two pages of full color reproductions of posters used by national advertisers (1910) Author: Hawkins, […]
Breach of Trust
Andrew Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country Reviewed by Rachel Maddow in the New York Times. What we are steaming toward, at the end of more than 12 years of continual hot warfare, is not so much cold warfare or even peace, but rather a kind of high idle, […]
Dragon Flies and Fairies for Wordless Wednesday
Scientific Illustration Wordless Wednesday was going to just be this page from an out of copyright journal article, Packard, A. S. The Dragon-Fly (August 1, 1867) The American Naturalist, Volume 1., which I thought was really cool. since I decided to switch to the Balance child theme for the Genesis framework for WordPress and thus […]
Nearly Wordless Weds, My Girls via GIMP
I felt like playing with graphics and making a digital photo frame for some images for our girls. First I found an image I wanted to use as a frame in The Strand Magazine from 1894: ORIGINAL ALTER IMAGE INTO FRAME I used a white brush in GIMP to white out the text. Then […]