“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
– Aleksei Peshkov
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
Bookmark 2 – Watercolor, Inktense and Sharpie
So much fun! I used a green sharpie to do the mesh in the background. I put shadows behind everything to give it some depth, but it doesn’t show up well in the scan. Only 2 more work days until a 3 day weekend! Yay! I haven’t taken many days off this month. I’m not sure I’m going to know how to act. 
WordPress tags still not working! grrrrrrrrr
About Aleksei Peshkov
Russian social realist author Aleksei Peshkov, known as Maxim Gorky, was so esteemed that his birthplace, Nizhny Novgorod, was renamed Gorky in his honor. He was born in 1868. His parents died when he was young, and he left his home at age 12. He was arrested in the late 1880′s as a revolutionary. His writing, including his best-known novel, The Mother, portrayed a decadent society and immense poverty. He became disillusioned after the Russian Revolution, feeling Lenin’s Communism was little better. He died in 1936.
Beautiful bookmark Beth! Love the patterns!!! ~Sophia
Thanks, Sophia! They were really fun to do.