Progress on painting the Pieta an Hommage

06/11/08
So many typos so little time to fix them when you are painting.
06/11/08
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
In my humble opinion, one of the greatest portrait painters of all time.
I encourage you to look at her work. Her color work is very strong and beautiful.
Lately I have been discovering so many exceptional painters that happened to be women. Angelica Kaufmann is another great painter.

06/04/08
I think I am getting close to finishing the Pieta.
I am planning to do a new show. Maybe one or two more portraits , an over the top floral still life (an impossible if not improbable combination of flowers), and a bunch of works on paper in oils.

Now for something totally different Bordermovie


06/04/08


Pre Raphaelite Women Painters, here is an example of an extraordinary painter
Evelyn Pickering De Morgan
British, 1850 - 1919

Titian - "Late Renaissance In Venice"
The Collection N.G.A
Perhaps Michelangelo's final contemporary rival.




The addition of translucent green , yellow cadmium light, acra red with clear glazes of Gloss Medium .







The latest progress on the "Pieta" color is coming soon

so these are a little sharper. Thanks to all of you looking for Art Austin texas
keep in mind this is a work in progress.

So it seems everything I do is enter twined with the Esoterics and or the Mysteries.
A bit of serendipity. I have bouts of synchronicity and just that term alone led me to a book called "The Holographic Universe" (the magical mystery tour is waiting to take you away, take you today). Not that I subscribe to any kind of supernatural processes in particular but once you see a term in writing or a symbol in a painting then you start to see it everywhere. Sort of when you buy a car that you thought unique suddenly, it is everywhere. From Atlantis, to Egypt, to Greece, to Western Europe to Washington D.C.
In days gone by the debate between humanism and piosity. I thought it strange that the pope used the term Natural God the other day.

Leonardo's notes on painting and sculpture:
The Difference between Painting and Sculpture
"The painter must keep ten things in mind to ensure the success of his work.- namely, light, shadow, colour, volume, form, placing, distance, proximity movement and repose."
"The sculptor must consider only volume, form, placing, movement and repose. He does not have to concern himself with light or shadow, for nature produces them herself in his sculptures. Nor with colour. As to distance and proximity, he attends to them only a little. He uses linear perspective, not that of the colours, in spite of variations in colour and sharpness of the contours according to their distance from the eye."

"Sculpture is a simpler form of statement and requires less mental effort than painting."
The Difference between Painting and Sculpture
"The painter must keep ten things in mind to ensure the success of his work.- namely, light, shadow, colour, volume, form, placing, distance, proximity movement and repose."
"The sculptor must consider only volume, form, placing, movement and repose. He does not have to concern himself with light or shadow, for nature produces them herself in his sculptures. Nor with colour. As to distance and proximity, he attends to them only a little. He uses linear perspective, not that of the colours, in spite of variations in colour and sharpness of the contours according to their distance from the eye."

Next I think I shall do a series of very flat, one dimensional, low detail, small, colorless, odorless, meaningless, seemingly unskilled urbanscapes. Non offensive perfect as room decor accessories for the timid art buyer.
Blueberries and tuna fish.

I meant to say Lapis Lazuli. Well actually I thought I knew what i was saying but i didn't say it.