Royal wings in Flight

Maleko ©2012       Original drawing colored pencil on white paper,     
                      edited using PicMonkey    9x7 inches

Royal wings in flight

Soaring in the night

Hidden from our sight

Powerful love & might

Setting the world right

Bringing grace & light
Maleko ©2012

Silent Royal Flight

"Silent Royal Flight"   Maleko ©2012   9x7 inches

 

Colored pencils on white paper, border added using PicMonkey
(A different version of this drawing posted next week for Halloween!)

for themselves they have seen my strength
watched me rise from darkness into light
a silent royal flight wings dripping blood
chasing the last of them from the earth
the demon monsters bound in chains
hunting through the dark of night
sending them fleeing one by one
cast down to a shadowy death
the fate they had earned

Maleko ©2012

Leopard

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

Eye detail

Royal Glory

"Dueling Crowns"          Maleko ©2012            8x10 inches
Colored pencil drawing on black paper, border added using PicMonkey

Forces rise in ferocious display 

Mighty steeds thundering down

Conquering the night and the day

Royal glory wears a kingly crown

Maleko ©2012  

A Crown of Royalty

“A Crown of Royalty”               Maleko ©2012
Colored pencil drawing on black paper          4×6 inches

A Crown of Glory

"A Crown of Glory"  Maleko ©2012    

Colored pencil drawing on black paper  4x6 inches

The Face?

During an evening walk with my daughter I was taking pictures of the sunset in a forest in Western Washington.  Upon returning home and editing the pictures for uploading I noticed something peculiar.  The sun appears to be perched on the top of the wooden stump but just to the lower left of the sun there appears to be a face peering out from in the leaves of the trees? 

The first picture is the original with no editing except for a drop shadow border.  

This picture below highlights the area where the face seems to appear with the rest of the surrounding area blurred out.

  What do you think?  Was something staring at us from the forest?

Photo editing done using PicMonkey

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.

  

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?

Horse Graffiti

"Horse Graffiti"      ©Maleko 2012

4x6 inches  ~  Colored Pencils on Black Paper  ~  Border and Background added using PicMonkey

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

Love Hurts

"Love Hurts"     Colored Pencils & Pastels        7x9 inches

(border added using Paint Shop Pro)              Maleko ©2012

4th of July

"Wings of Life"   Pastels & Colored Pencils on black paper

©Maleko 2012

I am proud to be an American and celebrate our country on the 4th of July. But more than this 

I am a child of God first, with an assurance of eternal life no matter what this life here on 

earth may bring.  I am thankful that I have the freedom to worship Jesus. God Bless!

Zebra Collage Using PicMonkey

A collage of my zebra drawings put together using the website PicMonkey which states on their website "Fearless photo embetterment."  Mainly designed for photographers, but it works great for fine artists also.  PicMonkey has a multitude of tools just like any of the best photography software that is available, but amazingly it is free to use!  

PicMonkey includes some of the following photo editing tools - 

• Many collage templates
• Frames and Borders
• Image Cropping
• Exposure Adjustments
• Color Effects
• Picture Resizing
• Skin Touch Up
• Text and Overlays
• Textures

Play around with the many different options and have fun!  It's great and respond how you like it in the comments below!

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

Sins Repeated

Believing the whispered lies as hearts spiral down ~ the sweet poison ~ penalties for sins repeated ~ on wings love rises from the ashes ~ light breaks darkness ~ forgiveness for the sins repeated

Lives lie still in disarray

"Stillness"

"Glory Rising"

Hopes lie quiet in turmoil  

Grace fills hearts in pain

Mercy fills souls in need

Passion is ignited in flame 

Love is forged in fire

As my heart beats

Worlds collide at dawn

Eclipsing the dark horizon

Forged in eternal fires

Brilliant rays of light

Reaching arms to hold

Wounded hearts of man

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)