Art Challenge #17: The Gift

Precious

acrylic on 11" by 14" by 3/4" gallery wrapped 'The Edge' canvas

SOLD to Joy & Scott $178 plus $11 shipping

This is the 17th challenge for The Artist Challenge. It is so much fun working with this challenge and the great group of people. This challenge is The Gift - Wow - the sky is the limit with this one! AND, this is a special landmark for me! This is my 12th consecutive entry. The Artist Challenge is the 1st challenge I ever entered. I hope to make another dirty dozen! Well, maybe dirty isn't the right adjective, but what the heck! It make a good movie!

This is painted after the old master Gustav Klimt. The painting, The Three Ages of Woman was painted in 1905, oil on canvas, 180 x 180cm. It is now located in Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy. The painting is of an obviously older, distraught, standing woman looking down on a full standing young woman holding a child. For some reason, the painting is often divided into two or three images and made into posters and prints. I chose to paint the torso of only the young mother holding a child which is called Mother and Child.

There is nothing more precious than a mothers love for her child.
There is no gift on earth that is more precious to a mother.
My daughter is my gift. My daughter is precious to me.
I could think of nothing else when challenged to paint 'THE GIFT'!

I'm am including the whole painting, The Three Ages of Woman. It is such an interesting and complex painting. It takes a few minutes to take it all in. I included two different sites about Gustav Klimt above. They are both worth visiting. I hope you enjoy it!

Thank you for stopping by. It is always good to see you!

FTM Following the Masters Challenge #4

The Century after Maxfield Parrish

acrylic on 12" by 16" canvas board

available $75 including shipping

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This is my first entry in the Following the Masters Challenge hosted by Michelle Burnett. It is the forth challenge and the subject is art of Maxfield Parrish. It was hard for me to find something of his I felt I could paint. His style is very detailed and 'old-world' in style. I am much more contemporary in my art and in my taste. When I buy art, if it has a computer, piercing or tattoo, all the better! Mr. Parrish did not paint those things!

But it was a wonderful learning experience. Maxfield Parrish was a very gifted artist and I had never heard of him! He was famous for his androgynous nudes, like the one I did. He was also famous for the dazzlingly luminous colors that marked much of his artwork; the shade "Parrish blue" was coined in acknowledgement. He could not be categorized and developed a truly original style of his own. There is so much available about Mr. Parrish on Google. Look him up to see his unique art.

I hope you are having a lovely week.
A very early Good morning!

Book of Beginnings

Illusions, Aspirations & Dreams

inspired by Nora Sallows

acrylic on 7" by 9" canvas board

nfs in collection of artist

This painting is one that grows on me. I like it better every time I see it. It is very similar to one of Nora Sallows original nude series of 20 from May 2006, but bolder in color with much different brush strokes. Ms. Sallows is a well know and respected Ohio portrait and wildlife artist who's web site is Dancing Light Studio. Her painting can be seen here.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time sure flies!
Good morning