Opening Day and a Baseball Story ...

An ink wash drawing of a baseball player running down a shot to the warning track just in front of the wall.  

As opening day of the new baseball season is upon us hopes spring eternal.  Every player is great, every team a champion.  The field is green, the lines crisp and white, the sounds of the crowd and the smells in the air.  What happens inside the white lines is all that matters in this moment and the rest just fades away!

In this image I try to capture your attention 
and ask what happens next?  

Does he make the catch, whirl and throw to the cutoff man?

Does the ball just sail over his glove and bounce up against the wall?

Or something else entirely, you write the rest of the story...

The NCAA Final Four 2010

The dreams all start on a playground somewhere! 


Here's to keeping the dream alive!


Congratulations to the NCAA final four teams, players and coaches! 

This is an ink wash drawing of two basketball players battling on the playground.  Playing just for the love of the game, as you can see the ripped net hanging form the rim.

~Maleko 1998

An artists pallette should never be clean - How does your use of color, tint, shade affect your art?

In creating do you find it limiting to work with only a select few colors or freeing? 

 

Does an artist need more choices of colors or is the creativity in the utilization of a few colors?

Is the creativity in the  combining colors to arrive at other colors that you need to portray the emotion or temperature of a scene?  The elements of creating a work of art are in every decision, in every element, every move, they all combine to hopefully create the beauty that is first in your heart and visualized within your mind.

~Maleko 2010

A Bright Spot

Flowers in bloom, begin in the cold dark depths of the of the earth.

To offer to us their beauty that is freely given but not meant to last.

Spring brings forth new life and new hopes.

To show your true beauty should be the endeavor of every man.

Reach for the Sun

"Reach for the sun, set your dreams ablaze. Better to be burned than to live a 

life of cold regrets & sorrow."

~Maleko

(A colored pencil drawing of a
cat reaching for the sun.
I like to think he sees something
that we don't or could we
if we would just open our hearts.)