First Night Design | Salt in the Air #Art #New!

“Salt in the Air” Framed Prints by Sarah Vernon | Redbubble

Features / Artists with Disabilities 1 September 2017 / © Sarah Vernon. Overlooking the Solent, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, UK 27-08-17. Taken with an iPhone 6c. Processed in Photoshop – duplicated layer in Colour Burn and adjustments to Vibrance and Contrast. • Also buy this artwork on wall prints, apparel, stickers, and more.

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“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

Then again—

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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Be that as it may, the spot photographed is as near to external peace on my little island. Note how it’s suddenly ‘my’ island now that I’m living here! For those new to this blog, I’m talking about the Isle of Wight. Mind you, I probably said the same when I was still in Crete.

“Salt in the Air” Drawstring Bags by Sarah Vernon | Redbubble

 

“Salt in the Air” Mugs by Sarah Vernon | Redbubble

“Salt in the Air” Laptop Skins by Sarah Vernon | Redbubble

Available at the following galleries:
Redbubble
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK
Fine Art America [14 fulfillment centers in 5 countries]
Saatchi Art

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Solitude Galaxy S6 Case for Sale by Sarah Vernon

Solitude Galaxy S6 Case for Sale by Sarah Vernon. Protect your Galaxy S6 with an impact-resistant, slim-profile, hard-shell case. The image is printed directly onto the case and wrapped around the edges for a beautiful presentation. Simply snap the case onto your Galaxy S6 for instant protection and direct access to all of the phone’s features!

Source: Solitude Galaxy S6 Case for Sale by Sarah Vernon

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First Night Design | Remembrance Baby T-Shirt #Sold!

Remembrance Baby T-Shirt (sold in all different sizes and styles)
by FirstNightDesign

The t-shirt contains the following verse from Laurence Binyon’s famous poem below the poppy image.

For the Fallen

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

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First Night Design | Solitude #Art

Solitude Framed Print © Sarah Vernon – Fine Art America

I created Solitude while I was still in Crete. Although I wasn’t thinking so at the time, you could say it symbolises my yearning for peace and solitude, as well as freedom from fear and anxiety, all of which I know that my cottage on the Isle of Wight will provide, even though it doesn’t look like the photograph by Antony Delanoix (Unsplash).  As you can see below, it’s quite bland and thus a perfect starting point for my playing. I couldn’t find any details but I imagine it’s Greece or Turkey or some Mediterranean country.

Anthony Delanoix

Solitude Tea Cup by FirstNightDesign

I used a grungy yellow background from my arsenal and a texture from Kerstin Frank and, though I say it myself as shouldn’t, I was delighted with the effect! Hope you are too.

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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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Solitude Laptop Skin © Sarah Vernon – Redbubble

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“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

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Solitude Postage Stamp by FirstNightDesign

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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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Solitude Watch by FirstNightDesign

Available at the following galleries:
Redbubble
Crated
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK
Fine Art America [14 fulfillment centers in 5 countries]
Saatchi Art

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First Night Design | A Cherub is as a Cherub Does! #Christmas

A Cherub, Detail of the Sistine Madonna – Raphael Greeting Cards

What could be more restorative when I’ve been feeling rather peevish this week than to learn that I’ve sold 50 greeting cards of this detail of Raphael’s Sistine Madonna! Well, it sure bucked my spirits up considerably.

And I’ve just created my first Christmas stocking with the same image.

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First Night Design | Drifting Downstream #Art

Buy framed print from Crated

Original photo by Scott Webb from Unsplash lovingly blended with a texture from Kerstin Frank to create a ‘painting’.

Buy Greeting Cards from Zazzle

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“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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Buy the duvet from Fine Art America or Fine Art England

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“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. – Amir”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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Available at the following galleries:
Redbubble
Crated
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK
Fine Art America
Fine Art England
Saatchi Art

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First Night Design | Silhouette Sunset #Photography

Silhouette Sunset © Sarah Vernon Buy at Redbubble

One can get very sick of sunsets. At least, I can. It’s rare for me to find a sunset photograph exceptional. I find Silhouette Sunset exceptional and I can say that with impunity because it was captured by Mr FND and not me! He took it from a beach on the Akrotiri Peninsular in Crete, near to where we live. Looking at makes me exceedingly peaceful.

Silhouette Sunset Laptop Skin © Sarah Vernon

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‘When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.’ Mahatma Gandhi

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Silhouette Sunset Cushion © Sarah Vernon

Available at the following galleries:
Redbubble
Crated
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK
Fine Art America
Fine Art England
Saatchi Art

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Let there be Peace

Says it all!

Artists4Peace

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And please you, have a Merry Christmas!

I couldn’t have expressed it better myself! May Juli’s words bring you comfort and joy.

In case I’m unable to bring you anything more until after Christmas, I send you many blessings for sticking with me through thick and thin while I have been largely unable to give you equal support. Your love has brought me comfort and joy in no uncertain measure and I will always be grateful.

Have a splendid Christmas and New Year and remember to take care and keep laughing!

Sarah x

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May you be bathed in light and love
May you be where you are at home
And not feel lonely if alone.

May you feel warm and dry and full
May you find inner strength and joy
And take time to enjoy it all.

May you laugh loud and longer than you row
May you be blessed with gifts of kindness
May you know the wealth and health
Of a peace of mind within our Now
And please you, have a Merry Christmas! 💫

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First Night Design | Walk Two Moons in My Moccasins

Walk Two Moons © First Night Design

Available at Redbubble on cards, prints, cushions, tote bags and cases

“Don’t judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.” Native American saying

Walk two moons
In my shoes.

Accept, don’t ‘tolerate’
The black, white or brown.
Love, don’t hate
The different, the down.

Praise, don’t diminish
Your neighbour or friend.
Why such a scrimmage?
This has to end.

It’s peace we all want,
Not hatred and war
Open your eyes:
Enough. No more!

Walk two moons
In my shoes.

© Sarah Vernon

Related

• Artists4Peace

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First Night Design | Artists 4 Peace — The Print & the Greeting Card!

Once I knew my logo submission for Artists 4 Peace had not been chosen, I realised I was free to sell it on prints and greeting cards, and spread the word about this excellent venture founded by Gigi and Melanie. The dove is from The Graphics Fairy.

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“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
― William Wilberforce

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First Night Design | Artists 4 Peace — New

Artists 4 Peace © First Night Design

Two enterprising women, Melanie and Gigi, have created an excellent initiative, Artists 4 Peace. ‘Artists using intelligence and creativity to foster and spread peace and love throughout the world. We can work TOGETHER to bring about change!’

Everyone is welcome to take part, ‘whether your medium is paint, poetry, yarn, music or pottery YOU can be part of the movement’. Simply publish a blog post with relevant content and email the link to:

artists4peaceproject@gmail.com

Your post will then be re-blogged.

UPDATE 16-07-14: The paragraph below no longer obtains. The site was getting so many hits and so much exposure that they decided a logo needed to be in place as soon as possible and they chose ahead of time.

[At the moment Artists 4 Peace is welcoming submissions for a logo — yes, that’s my submission above! Email your design by 20 July and there will be a vote to decide the winning logo.]

We live in a world that sorely needs a sea-change. We seem to have gone backwards not forwards and the state of the planet, in every way imaginable, is in desperate straits. Not until the human race stops fighting can we be said to have even begun to grow up.

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Happy Thanksgiving to One and All!

A Loving Thanksgiving

Wishing you all a Happy, Loving and Laughter-Filled Thanksgiving!

A Bountiful Thanksgiving Tiles

Other Thanksgiving posts on First Night Design
Apricot Mouse as a Holiday Alternative

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Under Full Sail: A Love of Boats

Under Full Sail II © First Night Design

Under Full Sail II is an adaptation of Dutch and English Warships in Battle by the Dutch painter Aart van Antum (1580-1620) in which I have used several textures to produce the effect of a fresco. My intention was to create a new version of the original, one that suggests peace and beauty and not war and savagery.

I’m a dreadful sailor, not because of seasickness, rather that LcSSc means I can lounge and enjoy but do nothing practical! I love everything about sailing: the sounds, the smells, the feeling of freedom. There is nothing more delightful to me than draping myself on deck in the sun and listening to the wind or lying down below and being lulled to sleep by the tink-tinkety-rattle of the rigging.

The men in my family have been and are avid sailors.  My father was in the Royal Navy towards the end of WWII though he saw no action. Although a successful actor, sailing was his real passion.  In fact, I suspect he would rather have spent his entire life sailing.

Oh, yes, and the reason I started this post is because Under Full Sail II has just been featured in the group A Love of Boats on RedBubble!

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