Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
One–Time Wear • View full piece
With the Holidays coming so soon, today I’ve started working on the digital Christmas greeting we’ll send out to our friends and family this year. Compared to last year, I didn’t think I had enough ammunition of events happening in 2006, but I was surprised by the amount of images I was able to collect. […]
I never thought I would write a tutorial on anything, much less one concerning the tool I’m least skilled at, i.e. Adobe® Illustrator®. However, in my first two attempts at using vector graphics to create figurative or portrait drawings, I have created two pieces that I rather like, and one of my readers — in […]
There was this time in college when a guy I didn’t know and I were paired as a team for our Physics Lab class. On the first lab, I started doing what I usually do: I grabbed the experiment instructions, read them for myself, and started manipulating the mechanical object we were supposed to work […]
Joining Joey in his late 30s and Jennifer in her early 30s, today I have experienced my first episode as an old fart…
For those that don’t know me very well, I should say that I am a poker-face scorpion, cold and smooth velvety thing that rarely se despeina when upset or frustrated. HOWEVER… in a […]
OUCH!… Where did that come from?…
A slap surprises you, humiliates you, hurts, and makes you wonder. But not all slaps are made equal: Some hurt to tears, some make you angry. In any case, a slap can be identified by the relentless presence of the aggressor in my thoughts for a long time. I repeat: […]
I’m not one of those insatiable designers who redesign and reboot compulsively only for the pleasure of creative change. As the pure ISTJ that I am, behind everything I do, I must always begin with a reason why and some concrete goals to direct my work. Without such direction I just get lost and don’t […]