I have to say I find humor in some of the oddest of things.  And if something is a bit off it might get a better laugh from me.  Well the French have done it again.  This is a short cartoon that played during commercial breaks.  Called Have You Seen?

–>> Continue reading A good laugh from the french. Serial Killer Egg!

I met a beautiful woman in the metro tonight.  She was falling asleep and was very angel like.  It inspired me to post a painting about an angel painting of mine.  This painting is called The Butterfly Angel.

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I wanted to continue the post The first project I am show casing here at my website watier.org is for the company Ogilvy PR. I contracted for Ogilvy PR for a couple of months and during that time I worked on clients like Johnson & Johnson, Macy’s, and here is one piece that I actual got to design from the ground up which was for Darden Restaurants who own Bahama Breeze.

–>> Continue reading Print Design – Oglivy PR – Continued

A shout out to a fantastic artist Jen Stark.

Her website go visit and see so much more art.

I ran across this artist while I was looking for inspiration for my next section of my posts and this screamed awesome –>> Continue reading Paper + Sculpture = Awesome

If I had traveled back in time and told my past self “learn Microsoft PowerPoint it will make you money” I would have never believed myself. But the truth is I have worked for some really great companies doing just that. I have continually worked for the Discovery Channel, National Geo, Randstad, Profiles, and others just because I can make a PowerPoint presentation sit up and bark. I have designed over 30 different PowerPoint templates that can feel like they were built my the most advanced interactive software. –>> Continue reading Working with Crayons – Powerpoint

Many Points in my life I have designed for different mediums.  Considering my age I have straddled the Print Age, and now the Web Age.   So much of what I have learned has built upon the foundation that I learned in print.   I have two grand lessons one is from Howard Pyle who taught that “in any painting you should be able to render it in black&white and still have it readable.”  And the other is from my father who made signs for 40 years and he taught “make it readable if you fail at that then you failed at everything.”

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The Knitters – hard working beautiful and magical – the three major elements of my illustrations of the Magic Wee Folk

The mostly love creating creatures that shape our world in an invisible way.  The knitters are one of my favorite paintings because it is illustrates one the strongest concepts that surrounds my illustrations of the Magical worlds.  I would love to believe of a world where these small creatures travel in a world besieged by humans and work to build magic and wonder unseen to all of us.

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Sapphire – A lovely day in a field of goldenrod

A story of the origin of fairies appears in the 1906 Sir J. M. Barrie novel Peter and Wendy. Barrie wrote, “…when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” I think this is as good a story for the creation of fairies as any.

–>> Continue reading The Orgins of Faires and My love of Painting them

So for all of you who have been here since the beginning I have been working on my own theme for word press.  Like most I started with a little help and cannibalize another theme to start.  So most of you might have seen my Notepad 1.0

–>> Continue reading Sometimes it is best to start over.