The Last Moment

Émile Schuffenecker, Woman in Pink Dress, 1883

Schuffenecker, Emile (1851-1934) - 1883 Woman in Pink Dress (Musee d'Orsay), originally uploaded by RasMarley.

Émile Schuffenecker, French, Post-Impressionist (1851-1934)

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dalou, His Wife and His Daughter, 1876

Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) - 1876 Dalou, His Wife and His Daughter (Musee d'Orsay, Paris), originally uploaded by RasMarley.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, British (1836-1912).

Stanislaw Kamocki

020_Aukcja_31, originally uploaded by artinconnu.

Stanislaw Kamocki, Polish (1875 - 1944)

Marsden Hartley, Storm Clouds Maine, 1906

stormcloudsmaine1906, originally uploaded by artinconnu.

Wojciech Weiss

025-aukcja-20, originally uploaded by artinconnu.

Rolf Armstrong

Rolf Armstrong (1889–1960), originally uploaded by Art & Vintage.

Rolf Armstrong (1889–1960).

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Saving Stuff

In the last few entries. I was talking about how I have made a living being an artist.
I have also posted current, finished work.
The work I am posting today is in the realm of the "process". I made these yesterday.

I have been going through my old work. I have noticed that there is a theme inside the portfolios. They are filled with all my ideas, many more ideas than just my old drawings of limited skill, they are in there too.
Most of these idea pieces, never reached fulfillment, for a thousand reasons. When I did have that idea I would go immediately to the studio and make it. Painting it or do a drawing or something. I am revisiting this crow idea now. I pulled out a painted sketch of crows from 1988 after a particularly vivid dream.

I save odd things. I am not a hoarder and I am generally neat, but I like interesting stuff and often create small dioramas on window sills or secret corners.

When my parents were alive, they loved to go to estate sales and garage sales and then send me boxes of stuff! Arriving with love, most of it was junk. In one of the boxes were some ill-cut gold place mats. I kept them (12+ years), did not know why, till yesterday.
I started to paint right on the gold vinyl with flat paint, black and interference blue.
Like a crow going down after some shiny thing, I am a sucker for metallic, iridescence and dayglow. Crows are dream elements for me, so the more visual candy, the better.
These photos are not showing the gold edges gleaming through.
Painting crows right now, come from a renewed interest, after reading "Crow Planet" by Lyanda Lynn Haupt. My break time spent watching crows in flight and, as they constantly chase the resident pair of Redtail hawks across the field.
This is all building up to something, so back to the studio with better paper and gold paint.

Charles West Cope, The Thorn, 1866

Charles West Cope The Thorn 1866, originally uploaded by Art & Vintage.

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Good Bye Winter

I think that last snow just wore me out. So even though the current storm is raining and the wind is howling, trees are fall down. I believe it is spring. I saw the tips of the tulips coming up.

Andrew Loomis

ANDREW LOOMIS 2 Women, originally uploaded by Sheepback.Cabin.

Domenico Ghirlandaio, La Vierge et l'Enfant avec le Jeune SaintJean-Baptiste et Trois Anges, 1490

Domenico Ghirlandaio La Vierge et l'Enfant avec le Jeune Saint Jean-Baptiste et Trois Anges 1490, originally uploaded by Art & Vintage.

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Koloman Moser, Garden with Peonies and Poppies, 1907-10

Moser, Koloman (1868-1918) - 1907-10 Garden with Peonies and Poppies (Private Collection), originally uploaded by RasMarley.

Koloman Moser, Austrian (1868-1918)

Julian Alden Weir

Julian Alden Weir (American,1852-1919)

William Bouguereau, La Jeunesse de Bacchus, 1884 (Detail)

William Bouguereau La Jeunesse de Bacchus 1884 (Détail), originally uploaded by Art & Vintage.

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Leonard James Stroudley

Leonard James Stroudley (British, 1906-1988)

Joseph Henry Sharp

Joseph Henry Sharp (American, 1859-1953)

James Avati

James Avati, originally uploaded by ondiraiduveau.