Shorts

Description: Twisted Is My Style

Description: Presented in the underpainting style, this stunning digital artwork showcases Shakyamuni (Gautama) Buddha in a serene lotus position against a backdrop of a beautiful red sunset, with a body of water, palm trees, and clouds adding to the picturesque setting. The masterpiece features a famous quote by Buddha, "No one can dominate us from within, except our own selves. Once we grasp this truth, we attain true freedom." The artwork was skillfully created in June of 2023.

Description: This digital art piece features 103 of Motown music's (and it's affiliate labels) top recording artists color coded by era. The artists are not listed in any particular order.

Description: This digital art piece features a collection of 118 of the top names in blues music from the early 1900s through current day. The artists are not listed in any particular order.

Description: This digital art piece features an Arizona state flag with the gold star replaced with a peace symbol.

Description: This digital art piece features a pair of hands holding a rainbow heart to symbolize how we all hold inclusion, equity, and equality in our hands. This piece was created as part of our Equity Now Series in support of all humans no matter their race, gender, creed, or sexuality.

Description: This graphic design showcases a logo for a fictional barber shop called Great Head Barber Shop in Warrendale, a community on the west side of Detroit, Michigan. The logo features the slogan "Warrendale's Original Clip Joint," and a fake address is listed beneath it. I created this artwork in May 2023 to evoke a sense of humor and nostalgia. Any resemblance to an actual business is unintended.

Description: I created this digital art piece to celebrate Pride Month. It showcases a brick wall painted in rainbow colors, with the words "Wall of Pride" written on it. Remember, love is love.

Description: This digital art piece features the late, great BB King on stage during his 2013 tour with band member Charlie Dennis. The artwork was completed in an Impressionist style.

Description: This is a digital art piece depicting an Asian Small-Clawed Otter climbing a fallen tree to observe its surroundings and check for any impending danger that may be present. These otters have short claws that don't extend beyond the pads of their webbed digits. They are the smallest otter species globally, with a total body length ranging from 730 to 960 mm (28.6 to 37.6 in).

Description: This beautiful piece of digital art depicts a heartwarming story of two otters who found true love on the riverbank, despite their differences in background. The female otter hailed from a less privileged side of the falls, while the male otter came from a wealthy family. Despite facing opposition from their families, they stayed true to their love and remained devoted to each other, always "otterly in love."

Description: I created this digital art piece to celebrate Pride Month 2023. It showcases a colorful abstract heart resting on a waving rainbow of Pride colors, with the words "Proud & Loved" overlaid. In a world filled with hate and prejudice, love is love, and it deserves to be celebrated.

Description: Anatomy Of The Blues

Description: This graphic design digital art piece presents a music festival poster for the fictional Horseshoe Bay Blues Festival in Southampton, Bermuda. It showcases the silhouettes of a guitar player and a saxophonist performing against a backdrop of a setting sun and palm tree silhouettes. The festival is imagined to have taken place on September 12, 1987, and the design was created for nostalgia purposes.

Description: Step back in time to the 1960s and 70s with this delightful digital artwork. Join a happy yellow banana as it leisurely walks through a fanciful setting filled with colorful mushrooms on its way to the Electric Banana - a renowned (but fictional) head shop located in San Francisco's famous Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. During its journey through the magical land, it comes across a caterpillar enjoying a hookah while relaxing under a vibrant purple mushroom. Allow this artwork to take you on a nostalgic trip to a cool era and location.

Description: This digital art piece features a celestial-themed yin-yang represented as a blue nova in the dark of space. The yin is represented by the sun and day sky and the yang is represented by the moon and night sky. In Chinese culture, Yin and Yang were born from chaos when the universe was first created and they are believed to exist in harmony at the center of the Earth.

Description: This graphic design piece features a design for a fictional classic muscle car dealership located in Detroit, Michigan called Motor City Classics. This was designed for fun and nostalgic purposes. Works great on clothing, household items, tech accessories, wall art, and more. Designed in May 2023.

Description: This digital art piece features a highway sign for a fictitious "Interstate 420 with a warning of "Hazy Conditions Ahead" set against a foggy haze green background.

Description: This digital art piece features the Om symbol on the face of a full moon blacked out as it passes in front of the sun for a total eclipse. The sun's corona is visible around the moon's edge. With its roots in Hinduism, the Om symbol represents the oneness of all creation, including the heavens, earth, and underworld. Others say it represents the three Hindu gods, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.

Description: This digital art piece features a close-up of the face of a green-eyed cat rocking a blue Fedora.

Description: This 420 Humor digital art piece features a very cool toad wearing a multicolored fez and smoking some dank cosmic stuff in its pipe while flashing the peace sign as it floats through the universe.

Description: This 420 humor digital art piece features a toad with a blunt happily, flashing the peace sign while being "Toadily Stoned".

Description: This digital art piece features a desert scene of mountains and cacti with the sun setting behind it in the form of the Arizona state flag with the wording "Arizona" and "Est. 1912" hugging the top of the circle and the wording "State 48" across the lower section in a wave format.

Description: This photography piece of the San Francisco Skyline, viewed from the bay, was taken in October 2006 by Warren Ferguson and edited in 2023 by Larry Nader Photography & Art.

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Description: This fusion photography/digital art piece features the Arizona state flag cut out as a peace hand gesture and set against a weathers planked background with a pair of Bronze & Gold Coreopsi flowers in the lower corners. Coreopsis are native to the southeastern United States and Mexico.

Description: This digital art piece features a yellow Tacoma Sparklette Trumpets bush with its amazingly colorful trumpet-shaped yellow-gold flowers. The showy trumpet-shaped flower clusters attract butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees.

Description: Her Inner Warrior

Description: This fusion photography art features a benedictine cross rising up into the star-filled night sky with a full orange moon behind it. This cross is located on the grounds of the Holy Trinity Monastery in St. David, Arizona.

Description: This digital art piece features a ferret practicing mindfulness meditation sitting in the lotus position with its paws at the prayer center. Mindfulness meditation is a mental training practice that teaches you to slow down racing thoughts, let go of negativity, and calm both your mind and body. It combines meditation with the practice of mindfulness, which can be defined as a mental state that involves being fully focused on "the now" so you can acknowledge and accept your thoughts, feelings, and sensations without judgment.

Description: This digital art piece features the saying, "Conserve Water, Drink Wine" with the word 'Wine" being made from images of pouring wine.

Description: This digital art piece features a mother Elephant holding her young calf close with her trunk.

Description: This digital art piece is a fusion of photography pieces with digital filtering applied. The night was magical. The band was lit. The bass player was laying down some smokin'-hot lines when, suddenly, poof...Up in Smoke. Completed using original photography with digital filtering applied.

Description: This digital art piece features a pair of cookies (one partially eaten) with the saying "Life Is Short...Eat Cookies For Breakfast."

Description: This digital art piece features a female adult Great Horned Owl and her owlet surveying their surroundings from the top of a fallen log. This piece was completed in the photorealism style

Description: This motivational photography art piece features a metal burro poking its head over a corner wall with the caption "Stay Safe & Remember..... There's An Ass Around Every Corner". Reminding us all that they exist everywhere and to do our best to not let then distract us from our tasks.