Pierrot with a Mandolin Film 1927

I'm posting this clip of Bernardo De Pace for my friend Valerie in Barcelona.

Thanks for pointing this out, Rick Turner. Via Acoustic Oasis via YouTube

Banjo-Uke Duet in French

Found this sweet little video posted by Rick Bruner of banjo uke players on NY Ukulele Salon

Les Chauds Lapins - Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt at Ukulele Salon at Ukulele Mansion, singing a Meg Reichardt original, "Cette Nuit-là."

The Sculptures of Ann Carrington

Photo ©Richard Bamber

Ann Carrington's Shell Ladies

Thanks, Janet

Girl on a red carpet

Girl on a red carpet
Originally uploaded by artinconnu

I just had to show you this one.
By Felice Casorati, one of my favs.
I had never seen it before now.
It's just perfect.

The Picasso under the Picasso

There's a Picasso show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art right now. The top photo is the "Blind Man's Meal" from his Blue Period, 1903. Bottom photo is an x-ray of the painting...a crouching woman that was found underneath it. I love Picasso's early work. Hey, that reminds me of my own "crouching figure" shown in my blog post below.

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What am I up to? (Crehore)

Right-hand side detail of a painting by Amy Crehore 2010

Here I am showing you a direct scan of a little bit more of one of my paintings. It's been raining here for weeks now and I have been unable to take 35mm slides of the new work. I also had to search for a new photographer to take my 4"x5" transparencies. I'll hopefully have an appointment with him next week. Film and film processing are getting harder to find around here. He had to order the film from NYC. Unfortunately, scanning oil paintings directly is not great and neither is digital photography. I have to make sure that I obtain the best photos for archiving and reproduction purposes. This can be frustrating. Meanwhile, I am re-working and inking a drawing that will become a letterpress print. I started it last fall, but I just wasn't satisfied with the composition. Figuring out the colors can also be tricky. I want it to be right. This is taking me a long time.

The green duco vintage ukulele (my Nip-Cat) that I showed you earlier is still being painted. Tickler #3 is still being built. Sometimes art happens slowly in this fast food world of ours.

Craftsmanship is important to me.

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François-Emile Barraud (1899-1934)

"Les songes creux" Oil on canvas, 1933.
"Le Malcontent" Oil on canvas, 1930.

Amazing, but little known Swiss painter, François-Emile Barraud (1899-1934) worked in Paris in the 1920s, but died at age 35 of tuberculosis.
He reminds me of Antonio Donghi and Moise Kisling and the reclining nude I just blogged by Miklós Bánovszky...naturalistic realism of the early 1930s.
I discovered him here (see more images):
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