My Books - New Page!

Using Blogger's new tools, I created a page for some of my books listed.  It shows where you can buy them and "like" them on Facebook!  On the blog, you can click the link at the top that says "Books" or follow this link - http://mattsketchpad.blogspot.com/p/books.html.

New Book: The Wisdom of Pixar

A Reasonable Imagination: It's here! The Wisdom of Pixar

So, I am ordering a new book about the philosophical values found in the films of Pixar. Since Pixar is all about telling stories, what is found in those stories? There are actually many spiritual conotations in the stories of Pixar. Can't wait to read this book and tell you what I think.

Strata Via logo

Here is a logo I have been working on for Team Expansion.  It is program for college students to get experience cross culturally for a year while living in the states! Great step towards overseas missions.

You can read more about it at: http://teamexpansion.org/blogs/stratavia/

Gone Camping

Here is a background scene that I made.  Click on it to see the full picture, it is apparently too wide to view on the main blog page.  I saw something the other day with a similar scene, so later that day I sketched in my moleskin sketchbook then worked on it CorelDraw.  After I finished it, I thought it might make a good Father's Day card.  So I made it into one, converted that to a pdf and am including that here so that other's can print it out and use it.  If you use cardstock it will even look better.  Let me know if you use it!!

Get your printable Father's Day card version by following this link: http://www.thecrossers.com/projects/happy_fathers_day_card_2010.pdf

Elderly Woman with Walker

This image came to mind, and I worked on it after a few weeks of thinking of it.  It turned out pretty close to what I was thinking.  Rarely does a piece look exactly like what is in my head.  But this is pretty close.

Golfer

Here's a new graphic I made recently while I was practicing.....

Team Expansion Pathways 2010 Prayer Card

This is one of the things I worked on this week.  It is one of three prayer cards for college teams going out to do missions for the summer.  It is one of our programs at Team Expansion called Pathways. You can read more about that at the following link: http://www.teamexpansion.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=131&Itemid=9. 

Website Work: Desklamp

This is the table lamp from the image I posted earlier of my drawing table.  It is a vector based image made in CorelDraw X4.  Most of it was made with various shapes.  The glow of the light was made with a shadow effect that I made yellow.  Then I took the shape tool and shaved the sides of the shadow image, giving it the look I was going for.

Website Work: Vintage Rotary Telephone

This is a vintage rotary telephone that I made using CorelDraw X4.  It is a vector based image and will probably be going on our new website.  It will be part of the contact icon.

Website Work: Barn, Tornado, Cow and Pig

Here's a vector based image made in CorelDraw X4.  This will represent the fact that we live in Oklahoma, the land of tornadoes.  It will probably be going on our new website.