#travel art
A little flat color project to expand my digital portfolio. I was born near the amazing Carlsbad Caverns and would visit them often as a child. During hot desert summers, my family would go down there to cool off. Whoever had the original job of lighting these caverns was a true artist, as the dramatically placed (and often hidden) bulbs throw incredibly haunting shadows.
Challenge 143: Lucky Charms: Lucky Number Seven
Ever since I was little number seven has always been the most lucky for me personally. When I was 7 I moved to a new house and got a horse, July was always my favorite month and good things happen to me in July, any fortune cookie fortune with a 7 came true, as I got older I’d find weird coincidences would happen in sevens. The 777 scratch ticket would always net me money. For example my husband is the 7th guy I dated and my first professional art studio was #7. For this piece rather than make it too personal, I chose to represent the 7 continents, 7 world wonders, 7 kitties, a boat for the 7 seas, and the 7 colors of the rainbow. This is probably one of the coolest small pieces I’ve ever done and despite all the hiccups in the last week I’m really happy with how this came out.
6 layers of baltic birch, hand painted with watercolors.
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New Editorial work for Four Seasons Magazine:
STORY 1: CATCHING OUR REFLECTIONS: Mirrors show us how we appear to the world, but sometimes we can be caught off guard by what we see in them. Like the literal mirrors that show us only what’s on the surface, there are metaphorical mirrors all around us—labels, credentials and other people—measuring and reflecting parts of who we are. But they can never capture the whole truth. In this piece, the Nigeria-born, US-educated and Sweden-based author of the forthcoming novel In Every Mirror She’s Black will explore how we react to what we see in those literal and metaphorical mirrors and how we can learn to see that reflection, and ourselves, differently. By seeing ourselves more wholly, she says, we can learn to see others the same way, and find more points of connection to other people and cultures.
By Lola Akinmade Åkerström (National Geographic Traveler, BBC, The Guardian, Travel + Leisure, Travel Channel, Forbes, AFAR)
STORY 2: BRANCHING OUT, LOOKING IN: Travel teaches us about the heart—sometimes even beyond the sentimental sense. During his extended post-college time in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, our author took a horseback trip through the roadless mountains that taught him how to navigate the watershed following the paths of its streams. Years later, in medical school, that experience helped him understand the movement of blood through the vessels of the cardiovascular system, enabling him to better diagnose and treat conditions like heart attacks and strokes. Expanding on this anecdote or a similar one from his forthcoming book, The Unseen Body, he’ll share how his travels to practise medicine in far-flung spots across the globe are about gaining new perspective, not only on everyday life, but also on the most everyday aspect of life, one that unites us all—our own bodies.
By internist and pediatrician Jon Reisman, M.D. (The New York Times, The Washington Post, Discover)
By Ngadi Smart: Instagram
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Inspired by the Salar de Uyuni
Some drawing I did while in Japan!
The Rathaus-Glockenspiel in busy Marienplatz, Munich: a Gothic-revival clocktower with mechanical figures that joust and dance.
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