Tag: pen and ink drawing

• You gotta piece…

  Ah, the day of heart shaped chocolates, conversation hearts, disdainful people that despise Valentine’s day, and an exchange of love notes… Truthfully, I absolutely love the day (YES, EVEN when I was single). I just never (ever) really thought of it as a day for couples. The history itself and all the believed legends of […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  February 14, 2011

  Art, Visual Arts

  Community, connection, doodling, drawing, love, painting, pen and ink drawing, postaday2011, social networking, valentine’s day

• Indias Bravas

  Per the suggestion of a fellow blogger and virtual friend, Mo, I decided to post drawings currently in the works. These drawings are part of a body of work dealing with standards of beauty. After reading Joanne Rondilla’s academic work on colorism and skin lightening amongst Filipina woman; examining and visually depicting two opposite ends […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  January 25, 2011

  Art, Visual Arts

  colorism, drawings, ellen gallagher, filipino art, indigenous, joanne rondilla, kenneth and mamie clark, pen and ink drawing, people of color, postaday2011, visual arts

• Someone misses me

  Over the weekend, I went to Needles and Pens located in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. It’s one of my favorite spots to get a an art pick-me-up. From doodles to zines, Needles and Pens reminds me that DIY is a wonderful and necessary art movement. It’s, certainly, an important one. There’s a lot of value in […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  January 23, 2011

  Art, Art Influences, Visual Arts

  book arts, design, drawing, illustration, needles and pens, pen and ink drawing, postaday2011, San Francisco