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Aug
Tuesdays Topic – Celebrations
This year August has been a really tough month for me (two dead hamsters is the very worst thing that happened but a lot of other stuff has been rough too this month) – usually August is filled with happiness and joy and so very many celebrations – it is birthday month for me, my daughter and my son.
I’ve been thinking of ways to cheer myself up this 29th day of August so that I can go into September with a great attitude so I decided that counting my blessings would be a good thing 
1. We all still had our birthdays – being alive is a blessing every day that we have it!
2. I got a great price for my airline tickets to the Conference in October that is going to be in San Francisco – $217 round trip from Houston Texas to San Francisco seems like a really great price to me!
3. I have awesomely wonderful friends online! I want to mention two in particular – both very talented and gifted artists and truly nice people that I am SO glad I know and can say they are my friends.
Kristen Fox has the most wonderful Celtic designs I’ve seen – the Celtic Dragonflies are marvelous in particular but then I’m quite partial to Celtic and dragonflies! Kristen also paints in watercolors and they are marvelous too! Most people love her Cool Celtic Dragonfly in blues best but I really love the Hot Celtic Dragonfly – I have one of her yellow t-shirts with the Hot Celtic Dragonfly – it is gorgeous! I get compliments on it every time I wear it everywhere I go! I love her watercolor turtle too! I haven’t bought one of them yet … I did get her turtle illustration for my family though on t-shirts! My daughter REALLY loves hers!
JGoode has the most adorable penguins I’ve found online anywhere – among a gazillion of other illustrations and designs! She is a REALLY nice person as well as the most talented catoonists I know!
4. I have a wondeful 2005 Honda Civic that I love to drive!
5. I have a great job that I enjoy very much with terrific co-workers that I like very much and an awesome boss that is great at explaining why he wants soomething done the way he wants it done as well as telling me what he wants done.
6. I have three great doggies in my life that love the Grandma VERY much! Only one lives with me but all three believe they own me!
7. I have a wonderful daughter who lives about six blocks away from me right now that takes great care of my grandson and is a terrific Mom.
8. I have the most wonderful, awesome grandson anyone anywhere could ever have! And he looks terrific in his football uniform – I got to see him in it tonight!
9. I have lots of customers with great taste that buy my art
10. I have a new Gallery for people to buy Fine Art Prints / Posters of my paintings which is very exciting – everything looks so great framed!
WOW – just off the top of my head … I feel so much better now after counting just ten of my even so many blessings I didn’t count yet!
Imagekind Gallery celtic
Copyright (C) 2008
Welcome to my Celtic Gallery, featuring a selection of my original art works of Celtic knotwork and spiral art available for purchase as framed or unframed fine art prints. Please enjoy your stay - click around - see what you like that might fit perfectly in your home.
These are all original designs, plucked from my mind, but influenced by the ancient Celtic masters, like those in treasured illuminated manuscripts.
Celtic Crescents Rainbow
It's a psychedelic rainbow of crescents filled with Celtic knotwork and spirals! A bright and cheerful piece of art that would be great for a kid's room or any space that needs a bit of cheerful color.
This piece was hand-drawn and finished with colored pencils.
Celtic Crescents
Offset crescents of platinum silver, gold, and copper are fused with decorative metallic Celtic knotwork and spirals, seeming to spin of their own accord. This Celtic piece has a slight steampunk feel to it, with the metals and the 'screws' holding it all together!
This work was drawn by hand, the outline inked, then scanned into the computer and finished digitally. This print is not actually metallic (or foil), but colored to give the impression of metals.
Celtic Triple Spiral
The Celtic Triple Spiral, or Triple Goddess Spiral is an early pagan symbol carved in the structure at Newgrange in Ireland. It's also in the Irish Book of Kells, and used as a symbol of the Christian Trinity. It's earliest meanings reflect a unifying energy and multiple expressions of that energy. Another meaning of the three spirals is to signify three stages of life: maiden, mother, and crone.
This image was hand-drawn in parts, then scanned into the computer and finished digitally.
Celtic Tree of Life Inked
An original, hand drawn and inked, rendition of the classic Celtic/Irish Tree of Life design, with corner details of sun, moon and stars, lightning and clouds, and ferns. Background looks like old dusky linen. The entire image looks very similar to a woodcut from ancient times!
Circle Celtic Tree of Life
As above, so below, and the circle of life rolls onward. This Celtic Tree of Life design features a single curvy line of knotwork branches above a knotwork trunk and root system, with a sacred spiral at the heart of it all. The circular design is cornered with sun, moon and stars, lightning and clouds, and leafy ferns! (Design was hand drawn and inked, then color was finished digitally.)
Celtic Stained Glass Spiral
A gorgeous circle of multi-colored Celtic spiral art like an ancient stained glass window. A bright and inspirational mandala!
Celtic Cat and Dog
A textured and stylized illustration of a cat and dog, in Celtic style, with surrounding knotwork, all in terrific earth tones.
Celtic Dog
A textured and stylized illustration of a lovable dog, in Celtic style, with surrounding knotwork, all in terrific earth tones.
Celtic Cat
A textured and stylized illustration of a cool cat, in Celtic style, with surrounding knotwork, all in terrific earth tones.
Celtic Surreality
A surreal pencil drawing - sword blade, dahlia, dangling chain, leaves and vines, and celtic symbols embedded in the stonework.
Celtic Sun-Moon Hourglass
An hourglass, decorated with and surrounded by Celtic Knotwork in wood and vines, displays the day passing as the sands of the sun pour into the moon. This hourglass mandala appears on a stately blue background.
Celtic Clockwork
Celtic Clockwork uses black and white and traditional Celtic spirals in a modern interpretation reminiscent of the gears and mechanisms inside a clock!
(Spirals are hand drawn, and then finished digitally.)
Celtic Star
A simple and elegant star design with Celtic knotwork in each point and a subtle sense of clockwise movement. Contemporary design.
Celtic Trinity Knot
A gorgeous Celtic trinity knot done in greens and golds, and accented in additional Celtic knotwork art. A classic symbol of unity and interconnectedness!
Celtic Dolphins
Two Celtic dolphins, balanced in a yin-yang position around a central spiral, play in the middle of a sea of Celtic Knotwork, like they were frolicking off the coast of Ireland in blue ocean waters. A unique design sure to appeal to dolphin lovers and Celtic enthusiasts alike
Celtic Dolphins
Stylized Celtic dolphins swim in a yin-yang position around a central spiral design, in a surrounding ocean of Celtic knotwork!
Celtic Daggers
Two Celtic daggers crossed against a bejeweled round shield. The daggers are a matched pair with knotwork etching up the blades and across the quillons. The handles are also wrapped in leather-ish Celtic knotwork. A huge rhombus-shaped green emerald finishes each piece.
This is a wonderful print for Fantasy and Science Fiction lovers - something to hang on the wall to give a modern room a more medieval flair!
Celtic Rose Stained Glass
Celtic Rose Stained Glass mirrors the vibrant color of traditional stained glass, combined with the intricate nature of Celtic Knotwork.
Celtic Triskele
This design is a rough/primitive and highly textured Celtic Spiral Triskele, with Celtic knotwork, in greens for the traditional colors associated with Ireland and St. Patrick.
Celtic Compass
A gold compass of Celtic knotwork, with silver and copper accents. All 4 cardinal points are engraved in Irish-Gaelic, also subpoints and 12 elemental points. Rune markings around rim.
Celtic Dragon Labyrinth
A stylized green dragon sits at the center of a labyrinth made of Celtic knotwork and spirals in maroon/burgundy and greens. Is the dragon master of the maze, or it's prisoner?
Celtic Loose Leaves
Celtic Loose Leaves - twin autumn maple leaves intermixed with fall-colored Celtic knotwork that winds around like a twisty October wind.
Celtic Reindeer Shield
Celtic Knotwork, Spirals, and Christmas Tree Bulbs intertwined with holiday ribbon, holly, and stylized reindeer on a leather 'shield'.
Celtic Leaf Transformation
An Escher-like tesselation of leaves, changing from the green of spring to the crimson red of autumn, detailed in Celtic knotwork and spirals.
Celtic Tree of Life
Celtic knotwork and spirals connect tree roots up through branches, joined by the the sun and the moon and fairy lights. Border colors symbolize earth, air, fire, and water.
Cool Celtic Dragonfly
A dragonfly made of Celtic knotwork and spirals, in cool shades of blue and purple.
Hot Celtic Dragonfly
An orange-red stylized dragonfly, decorated with Celtic knotwork and spirals, with a watercolor background.
Celtic Atlantis
Mythical Atlantis, interpreted in oceanic and opalescent tones of Celtic knotwork and spirals.
Celtic Planet
This planet is a blue and green world of Celtic spirals and knotwork, reminiscent of weather patterns, and hurricanes even - lots of swirling energy. Hail Mother Earth!
Celtic Knotwork Enamel
Celtic knotwork round symbol flanked by more knotwork in faux enamel and metallic style.
Bejeweled Celtic Shield
A medieval looking round Celtic shield bedecked with gold and silver knotwork designs and rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and amethysts.
Celtic Blue Moon
A blue crescent of Celtic Knotwork masquerades as the dark side of a blue moon, a rare sight indeed! What kinds of things do you do only about 'once in a blue moon'?
Celtic Elements
Symbols of sun, snow, wind and rain are surrounded by an intricate framing of Celtic knotwork in green, orange, and purple.
Celtic Autumn Leaves
A celebration of Autumn, this piece features four stylized leaves in various stages of fall coloring, surrounded by a ring of yellow-gold, orange, and rusty-red autumn colored Celtic knotwork.
Celtic Pyramid
This pyramid design comes in three sections. Two triangles with zoomporphic knotwork birds with fish in their beaks, and a diamond with a round spiral design.
Celtic Eye of the World
A blue green 'eye' is decorated with blue green Celtic knotwork art, as well as sandstone carvings and crescent moon corners.
Celtic Cross
A symmetrical Celtic cross design of intricate knotwork, resembling carved stone.
Celtic Butterfly
A butterfly made from all kinds of intricate Celtic knotwork and spiral designs, in yellows, oranges, and greens.
Celtic Dragons Fire
This design is done in black on a firey background - two dragons, in a yin-yang formation, surrounded by Celtic Knotwork.
Celtic Doorway
From an original watercolor. A magical portal is opened in a doorway made of standing stones. Bordered by Celtic knotwork.
Celtic Puzzle Square
An abstract green and black escher-esque puzzle square in Celtic knotwork and spirals.
Celtic Avant Garde
Celtic 'Avant Garde' is Celtic Knotwork with a modern, more sharply-cornered twist! This design, in purples and greens and blues, looks to be carved from stone.
Celtic Knotwork Sun
A stylized sun in gold, orange, and red Celtic knotwork, around a center core spiral design.
Celtic Spiral Stepping Stone
An intricate work of Celtic art - a circle with four arms of interlocking spirals, in textured green, black, and white - very detailed!
Celtic Tarot Spread
A set of nine of my unique ATCs (Artist Trading Cards) in a formation reminiscent of a Tarot Spread. Each card was originally hand-drawn and inked (black and white) with Celtic knotwork art and contain various symbols and images.
Celtic Castle
Intricate celtic knotwork in the shape of a floorplan of a medieval castle. In blues and greens, and a touch of purple and yellow tones.
Imagekind Gallery thePenguin
Copyright (C) 2008
The Penguin is a unique cartoon creation
by JGoode of JGoode Designs.
Born from the combination of quirky and cute mixed
with an abundance of late night computer time,
the penguin is a critter with a lot of character.
The Penguin is a continually growing collection of characters ranging
from "Fishing Penguin" to "Bride Penguin".
A penguin personality for everyone.
The Penguin represents a variety of things to
a variety of people, but in a nutshell....
Whatever or whomever you want the penguin to be,
THAT IS THE PENGUIN.
The Penguin is any gender.
The Penguin has no specific ethnicity nor racial ties.
The Penguin is who you think it should be.
The Penguin is what you love and what you love to do.
to see even more creations, visit jgoodepenguins.com
new penguin idea requests always welcome!
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