22x28" oil on canvas
Perspectives; Sugar and Spice for Modern Times
Saturday, September 19, 2009
As promised, the photo journal of the creation of my recent new piece, "Bird In Hand". Enjoy!
Once my canvas is ready, I transfer my sketch and start with the sky.
Working on the red sky
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Life update!
The studio concert performances are finished for another year and my world swings back to visual art. A new oil painting has been conceived and paint is on the canvas; it will be a dreamy small scale juxtoposition between reality and fantasy. I completed my first mixed media piece today, which is a 30x40" painting in acrylic and liquid gold leaf. It will appear here soon.
Tonight my friend Margie and I enjoyed attending the intimate closing party for "Milgrom on Morandi" at the Cross MacKenzie gallery in Georgetown. Lilianne Milgrom's take on the work of Morandi was intriguing....in this exhibit she creates life where there was only "still". Her ceramic forms are grouped together in Morandi inspired clusters and when filtered through the modern sensibility many evoke feelings of modern life, skylines, and other archictectural constructs. In the paintings on exhibit, she injects small bits of biology which move the images back to land of the living. Altogether inspired.
It was lovely visiting with another artist, particularly one as charming as Lilianne, and gallery owner Rebecca Cross was a gracious host. Find Lilianne at www.LilianneMilgrom.com
Tonight my friend Margie and I enjoyed attending the intimate closing party for "Milgrom on Morandi" at the Cross MacKenzie gallery in Georgetown. Lilianne Milgrom's take on the work of Morandi was intriguing....in this exhibit she creates life where there was only "still". Her ceramic forms are grouped together in Morandi inspired clusters and when filtered through the modern sensibility many evoke feelings of modern life, skylines, and other archictectural constructs. In the paintings on exhibit, she injects small bits of biology which move the images back to land of the living. Altogether inspired.
It was lovely visiting with another artist, particularly one as charming as Lilianne, and gallery owner Rebecca Cross was a gracious host. Find Lilianne at www.LilianneMilgrom.com
New Painting!
Bird in Hand is a 22x28" oil painting on canvas.
Created from the figure of speech "One bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush." The phrase first appears in a British folk ballad published in 1781 as a lyric from a song entitled 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' and is listed as being 'Sung at Vauxhall' [London].
The Lyrics were:
Gay Strephon declares I'm the girl in his mind,
If he proves sincere, I'll be constant and kind,
He vows that tomorrow he'll make me his wife,
I'll fondly endeavour to bless him for life,
For all other fwains I care not a rush,
One bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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