We took the little one to his first visit to the Bishop Museum today. Well, at least his first visit since he’s old enough to really appreciate anything he saw there. We thought it was a good time since he’s shown some early interest in learning about the solar system and all the planets. The museum was supposed to have overhauled their...
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I captured these native Hawaiian seabirds outside my office the other day. I’ve been watching the little baby for the past couple weeks sitting on that branch. Apparently these Mana-o-ku, or white fairy terns return every year to this same branch to nest. “Nest” is a generous term because as far as I can tell there’s no nest up...
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Here’s yet another example of an artist’s ability to make a photo-realistic photo comprised of nothing but ink dots. This technique I’ve actually practiced before…one of the basic staples of art instruction. For the life of me I can’t remember the point of learning this technique in class other than to practice patience?...
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My wife and I had completed our remodeling ordeal at our home for almost 2 months now. We love the results but I don’t feel like we’re completely done just yet. There are a couple of boxes that remain sitting outside our kitchen and some pictures and paintings waiting to be hung. I still have to work from our kitchen countertop because my...
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I’ve obviously been on a big Lego kick recently. I got another one coming in the mail. What’s especially nice is that Kingston is starting to show an interest in those toys so there’s less resistance from the spousal unit. What…is that a bad thing to call her? Anyway, there’s a fun series of Lego inspired riddles I ran across...
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Yet another example of pencil art. These are pretty unbelievable…the fact that artist Paul Cadden drew these photorealistic pieces of art with nothing but a pencil and paper. Pencil is one of my favorite mediums…somewhat the same practice I used as a kid drawing ninja turtles between homework assignments (yes, geeky I know) What inevitably...
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LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching New Media Arts.