Cat Detail from"Deja Vu Waltz", Painting by Amy Crehore

Cat Detail from painting, "Deja Vu Waltz", by Amy Crehore 2007

You've gotta have a cat in there... going wild...scratching a tree now, don't ya? I'll blog a couple more details and then I'll show you the entire painting. Stay tuned.

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The Devil is in the Details-"Deja Vu Waltz" by Amy Crehore

Detail from "Deja Vu Waltz" by Amy Crehore 2007, oil on linen

Here's another teaser for you from my brand spanking new painting for the "GREEN Show". The art exhibit opens November 17th at Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. Curated by the fabulous Mark Murphy, there will be about 40 artists in this show.

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"Deja Vu Waltz"-Another Detail

Monkey Detail from "Deja Vu Waltz" by Amy Crehore 2007

Here's another piece of the puzzle. More coming soon!

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"Deja Vu Waltz": New Painting by Amy Crehore Unveiled Bit by Bit

Detail from "Deja Vu Waltz" by Amy Crehore 2007

Okay, I am going to show you pieces of my new painting, "Deja Vu Waltz". This painting is for the GREEN SHOW (opening November 17th in Santa Monica, CA). Here is the first detail. This painting has everything. All of my characters. Here you can see my little pierrot.

Stay tuned as I unveil the rest bit by bit.

This is a large oil painting on linen, 24"x 24".

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Freaky Nude with Perfect Boobs

Got this wicked creature from an image search of

Ectomo.com

John Brownlee must have it stashed under his pillow for cold, rainy nights.

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Ruth Marten's Art (and Me)

" Tableau" Painting by Amy Crehore 1990
Native Girl, ink on old engraving by Ruth Marten 2007

Hair by Ruth Marten 2005 NYTimes article

I have always admired Ruth Marten's art. She's a wonderful painter and illustrator. She has a thing for hair and has made some beautiful and humorous paintings using this theme (above).
Recently, she has been drawing in ink on old prints. "Native Girl" is an example. There are many more on her website:
Ruth Marten
I picked out "Native Girl" from her site because I immediately recognized it as an old engraving that I used in 1990 as reference material for my painting called "Tableau". I have a big, fat book at home that is full of these engravings and it is one of my favorite things. It's called, "The Complete Encyclopedia of Illustration" by J.G. Heck (Park Lane publishers) which contains all of the original illustrations from the 1851 edition of "The Iconographic Encyclopedia of Science, Literature and Art". It is full of birds, beasts, people, landscapes, weather patterns, sea shells, you name it. I can't even describe how amazing this book is.
I think that Ruth Marten and I may have some interests in common.
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The Three Graces Interpreted

"The Three Graces" is a theme which appears time and time again throughout art history. Here is a spoof of that theme called "The Three Friends", painted in 1998, by John Currin which takes it's cue from this statue by John-Baptiste Regnault, 1799. Currin's work has a style not unlike Lucas Cranach. I like Currin's work of the late nineties. See more paintings here:

Femme Femme Femme

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