Into the Color...

Photograph       ©Maleko 2012       (Edited using PicMonkey)

“What lies beyond, into the color?”

Leopard

"Leopard"           ©Maleko 2012            8x10 inches
Colored Pencil and Pastel on white paper

Eye detail

A Crown of Glory

"A Crown of Glory"  Maleko ©2012    

Colored pencil drawing on black paper  4x6 inches

A Tiger's Eyes

Close up detail of the eyes from a colored pencil drawing A Tiger's Rest.  Purchase prints of the entire image on Fine Art America or view the original posting here!  

©Maleko 2012      Original 8x10 inches

A Tiger's Rest

Colored pencil drawing, border & text added using PicMonkey    ©Maleko 2012   8x10 inches

Pictures posted below show the progress of this piece of art.

 

Working in the undertones.

Preliminary pencil sketch

Colors blended and background added.

Flushing out the highlights and shadows.

  

In the Morning

Photos taken of the morning sunrise in late August 2012 on my early morning bike commute in the Pacific Northwest! (Collage done using PicMonkey) ~©Maleko 2012

Wearing Masks

"Wearing Masks"   ©Maleko 2012

5x6.5 inches  ~  Watercolor Pencils and Pastels  ~  Drop shadow border added using PicMonkey

This picture of three horse heads in vibrant colors struck me as looking like masks that were being worn while something devious is being planned.  What could that be?  What is being said?  What are they trying to hide?     Better question what do we hide behind the masks we wear in our daily lives?

King of the Jungle

"Lions Head"  ©Maleko 2012

Colored Pencil and Pastels     8x10 inches

A drawing inspired by my recent 30 year high school reunion, which I did not attend but as part 

of the group on facebook I got to thinking about old friends and memories of my alma mater so 

I completed this drawing of the school mascot using the school colors for the background.  

Proud to always be a Lion!   Borah High School - Boise, Idaho   Class of 1982

This drawing is available in fine art prints and greeting cards at my site on FineArt America

Butterfly Art Collage

"Distractions softly hover in the corners of my mind 
like a butterfly haunts a flower." ~M

"Butterfly Collage"   ©Maleko 2012
Colored Pencils, Watercolors, Pen/Ink, Pastels and Crayons - Collage created using PicMonkey

I only ask to be free.  The butterflies are free.  ~Charles Dickens

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, 
freedom and a little flower."  ~Hans Christian Andersen

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, 
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.
~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun   

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.  
~Rabindranath Tagore

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone 
through to achieve that beauty.  ~Author Unknown

 
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, 
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.  ~Chuang Tzu

Balancing on the Edge of Dark

A Yellow Maze

"A Yellow Maze     ©Maleko 2012    Colored Pencil on Black Paper (Paint Shop Pro border added)   12x9 inches

“I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits?
Are you noisy with quiet times?
Or are you quiet with noisy times?
Are you happy with some sad days?
Or are you sad with some happy days?
Are you neat with some sloppy ways?
Or are you sloppy with some neat ways?
And on and on and on and on and on and on he went.
I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.”
― Shel Silverstein

Zebra Colors

"Zebra Stripes"       12x9 inches        Pastels on Black Paper (Paint Shop Pro border added)      Maleko ©2012

"Blue Stripes"              12x9 inches   

Pastels on Black Paper (Paint Shop Pro border added) 

Maleko ©2012

"Purple Pink Stripes"              12x9 inches   

Pastels on Black Paper (Paint Shop Pro border added) 

Maleko ©2012

Playing around with colors on the same design of a mother zebra grazing while keeping a watchful eye out for her young foal.  Everyone has seen a black and white zebra, but a one of color?  That would make us stop and take a second look, right?  Which one is your favorite? ~M

Breaking Blue

"Breaking Blue"       Colored Pencils on Black Paper

6x9 inches   (Paint Shop Pro border added)    ©Maleko 2012

Forged in Fire

Forged in fire ~ beyond the stars 

~ shattering the dark ~ unfailing love remains

"Forged in Fire"        ©Maleko 2012

15 x 22 inches  Mixed Media (Watercolors, Pastels & Colored Pencils)

Spring Comes On Butterfly Wings

Pastel and Pen             3.5 x 5 inches   

Maleko ©2012

Pastel and Pen              3.5 x 5 inches  

Maleko ©2012

Dreaming in the Dust

"Dreaming in the Dust"    ©Maleko 2012
6 x 9 inches     Pastels & Colored Pencils

 Dreaming in the dust
Lost inside the cloud
Visions break the chains
Running free into now
©Maleko 2012

Colors Float Silently By

Suspended in darkness as worlds of colors float silently by,

Have you climbed to the top and slid down 

the other side of a rainbow?

Under a Silver Lining

"Under a Silver Lining"            ©Maleko 2012

Colored Pencils on Black Paper       4x6 inches

This drawing is my donation to the #twitterartexhibit in Norway via David Sandum that benefits
the Women's Crisis Center in Moss where abused women and children can get the help they need.

Bronco Metal

"Bronco Metal"     Colored Pencil on Black Paper and edited with Paint Shop Pro  
4x6 inches         Maleko ©2012

An Invasion of Gentleness

"An Invasion of Gentleness"   

Pastels and Colored Pencil on Black Paper    6x9 inches   Maleko ©2012

 

Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever

happened in your days or in the days of your forefathers?   Joel 1:2

 

Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.    Philippians 4:5