The Devil Photographer

French Metal Photographer Figure with View Camera - 19th Century, a photo by photo_history on Flickr.

Click though on photo_history's flickr to see the face of this guy and the cabinet card drawing that matches this 19th century figure.

Some Paintings I Like

The Golden Girl by Dod Procter (date?)British

I did a post on this painter some time ago.

Circus, 1927 by Antonio Donghi, Italian

I blogged him a few times.

The Rose Bush 2007 by Jansson Stegner

This guy is new to me and I really like his work.

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"Blue Whale Cove" Painting in Progress (Crehore)

Click on photo to enlarge (twitpic).
See my pencil sketch in my previous post.
This little painting evolved from drawings that I have been doing for months in my sketchbook.
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I'm painting this for the Sea No Evil 2011 Benefit Art Auction, Riverside Municipal Auditorium, CA. June 25, 2011, 6 PM.

New Sketch for Next Project (Crehore)

Sketch by Amy Crehore May 2011

I made this sketch last night called "Blue Whale Cove". I'm going to try painting on a piece of wood this time. I already have a unique gold frame and I cut the wood to fit it. The frame will determine the direction of the color scheme this time, as I want it to become part of "the whole".

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Funny Embroidered Letter

"Letter to the Future"

Hand-stitched embroidery by Simon Evans 2011

Shitty Heaven at James Cohan Gallery opens today May 12-June 11, 2011 NYC

Drawings for New Work (Crehore)

"A Delicate Promenade" by Amy Crehore 2011 (click to enlarge drawing)

"A Little Escapade" by Amy Crehore 2011 (click to enlarge drawing)

Someone told me that they really liked my preliminary drawings, so I thought I would show you the two pencil drawings that I did for my new paintings. "A Little Escapade" totally morphed into something different when I painted it. Also, here are some quick digital shots of how these paintings looked framed before I shipped them off to the NEW BROW IV show in Seaside, CA. (Opens Friday May 13, 2011) More info about this show in a previous post.

Please go to my website homepage for larger images of these oil paintings on linen:

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Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962), Inventor of the Pin-Up?

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) "was a French painter specialising

in portraits of Parisian women. In the 1920's Domergue invented a new type of woman : thin, airy, elegant, with a swanlike neck. 'I invented the pin-up, he later claimed."

See two pages of images at FRENCH PAINTERS blog