[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 2: Eleusius, from The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915), added on 27th Feb 2008

One corner of a mosaic floor, with a border of interlocking circles. It might make an interesting design element in a Web page or scrap book, perhaps faded out to one corner, or completed to make a full border.

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Color Contacts: History of Changing Your Eye Color

It has been said that eyes are the window into the soul. If that is true, then eye colors are the soul’s curtains, a decorative adornment that frames your view of the main event. Human eye color is determined by a number of factors, including the pigment of melanin within the iris, as well as [...]

Color Contacts: History of Changing Your Eye Color

It has been said that eyes are the window into the soul. If that is true, then eye colors are the soul’s curtains, a decorative adornment that frames your view of the main event. Human eye color is determined by a number of factors, including the pigment of melanin within the iris, as well as [...]

[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 9: Hexagons, from The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915), added on 26th Feb 2008

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia - full-page border/decorative frame version., from The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915), added on 26th Feb 2008

I made this decorative border, or full-page frame, gold on a black background, from one corner, for use in scrapbooking, Web design, or general publishing.

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Blue Unicorns

Browse original Unicorn Clip Art of dark blue unicorns with golden horns, unicorns with light blue and lavender swirls of color, and small dark blue unicorns, plus unicorn linebars or...

The Magical Colors of Fireworks

An astonishing number of different cultures use fireworks in their celebrations of revolution, love and the passing of time. They may be used for many different types of celebrations within each culture, but the energy of color and sound carry a universal experience. While, as you may all know, 12th century China first created fireworks [...]

Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (Wide-screen background version), from Old English Country Cottages (1906), added on 19th Feb 2008

A version of Wilfrid Ball’s painting of a thatched house in the English village of Long Wittenham made to fit a wide-screen or high-definition screen, for use as a wallpaper or desktop background image.

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Two Humps

This is a Bactrian, or two hump camel:

Half Empty or Half Full?

Half an apple:

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