Let the good times roll

"One of the greatest tragedies in the world is wasted pain."

--Archbishop Fulton Sheen

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.”

--T.H. White

This ACEO is on Arches Arboard, watercolor hot pressed
with watercolor markers, Japanese watercolor, and watercolor crayon

Mad! Gradient

“But that would be putting the clock back,” gasped the Governor. “Have you no idea of progress, of development?”
“I have seen them both in an egg,” said Caspian. “We call it Going bad in Narnia.”

--C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

  For those of you just tuning in, Jessica and I have a weekly theme we do together.

There are many types of gradients, and perhaps if you don't look at this all at once, they are all here.  Except for the fictional kind.  I don't go in for those.

 Japanese watercolor and watercolor crayon
on Canson illustration board (ACEO)

 “Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”
― C.S. Lewis

And this is why

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

 

-Epictetus 

This is Japanese watercolor and Inktense blocks 

on Arches Artboard watercolor, coldpressed 

Grenada IV

 "I could never at any time understand why there's supposed to be something insolent and intolerant about a man asserting that he has the Truth."
G.K. Chesterton

Inktense blocks, conte crayon
on Canson illustration board

Grenada III

 "A man who thinks hard about any subject for several years is in horrible danger of discovering the truth about it."
G.K. Chesterton

 ACEO, Inktense blocks, conte crayon
on Arches Artboard, hot pressed watercolor

WetCanvas Animal and Wildlife April Challenge

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."

C.S. Lewis

 

I did this ACEO for Wetcanvas' Animal and Wildlife April Challenge

on Canson Montval watercolor rough paper, watercolor

Grenada II

"Thinking is a narrowing process. It leads to what people call dogma."
G.K. Chesterton

Inktense blocks, conte crayon

crescent illustration board, hot press, medium weight

I've been wanting to revisit this--just not in person.  :)