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Of course, there is always a more certain means of getting your art into a major gallery: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11882683/Famed-art-dealer-Larry-Gagosian-artist-Anna-Weyant-arrive-New-York.html

We were worried. Weather forecasts from last week had predicted cloudy skies for today. When I got up this morning it was raining and the forecast called for clear skies from 12-2 and then cloudy after that. By noon we had clear skies and I took some pictures of the blossoming cherry tree in our...

I was thinking of starting a new thread on "guilty pleasures"... and then found this old one that I had started some 4 years ago. I read through it all again. God! How I miss Musket. :cry: So among all our members do any of you want to admit to any "guilty pleasures" related to your art? I can...

Terri, Thanks. 🙏 We got the day off because there was a concern about the kids looking up at the eclipse in progress when school let out. There is also a concern over the number of people coming to Cleveland to view the eclipse.

This makes me think of Modigliani filtered through Max Beckmann: Being a huge fan of both artists, I quite like your painting.

With this 3 day weekend... we get off for the solar eclipse... I finally got back to work painting. Today I completed all the gold leaf seen here and the tessellations and blocked in the hair... which like the figure below is a work in progress. The hair will almost certainly be a good deal lighter.

Only problem is that Rubens is spelled wrong. 😜

I'm quite familiar with this Matisse "fake" as I have used it... along with the real Matisse paintings of a similar ilk... when having students create their own Matisse homages. I usually use examples of work by a given artist as well as examples by students... which might not strike the...

Back in October I had scheduled a stay in a favorite bed & breakfast in Ohio wine country as an anniversary gift. Unfortunately, my wife came down with a nasty case of Influenza resulting in 5 days in the hospital. She came home for 2 days when it became Pneumonia resulting in another 7 days...

From what I have read about Van Gogh I got the feeling that he made most of his paintings during his more lucid periods. I've come on theories that the distortions in El Greco's paintings were caused by an astigmatism and the increased use of yellow in Van Gogh by digitalis. Neither made sense...

For years I used this bust of the Roman Emperor, Caracalla... ... as my avatar. He was unquestionably one serious SOB... but I have long understood how to differentiate the artist and/or the subject from the art.

Sargent is one of those painters from whom I can't learn anything - because he's so good I can't "reverse engineer" his work, and work out how he did what he did. Brian... I know what you mean. But it is not merely how good that makes an artist impossible for me to learn from, but also how the...