Tickler Ukulele #3 -Paint Job (Crehore)

I've already shown you glimpses of my custom-built Tickler Ukulele #3 in progress, but here's a peek of the actual headstock being painted.

The bottom photo shows a test strip of a few do-dads painted on a sample piece of maple.
 Lou Reimuller (luthier) did the most beautiful job building this wonderful concert ukulele and it is really getting to the final stages now. Yes, it has been slow going, but this uke is special.
I just hope my paint job will live up to the rest of the amazing and intricate details on this uke.
 

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Gorgeous Sepia Tone Photos of London 1877

Photographer: John Thomson
Recruiting Sergeants At Westminster
[Street Life in London] 1877
WoodburytypeLondon School of Economics - Digital Library

Photographer: John Thomson
Italian Street Musicians
[Street Life in London] 1877
WoodburytypeLondon School of Economics - Digital Library

 

Design Observer's John Foster has posted a whole bunch of amazing photographs taken by photographer John Thomson of the street life in London in the late 1800s. Thomson's bio and photos were found via Luminous Lint, a website that specializes in fine photography.

Follow the link below to view more of these spectacular street photos

and read the article at Design Observer:

LINK

Also, John Thomson at Luminous Lint

 

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More cool links from Little Hokum Rag

Amy Crehore Studio July 2013

As I begin to start the next two paintings in new my series, I am blogging a new list of links that might be of interest-

1.  Amazing ukulele w/flashing lights (youtube)Le Le AvantGarde by lighting ukulele LINK !
2. The link above was tweeted by Bosko and Honey of Ukulele Safari (thanks!)
3. See models buried in sand w/bathing caps & red lipstick, the surreal fifties The Nifty Fifties !
4. Collection of 7 videos of 60s/70s bands/performers doing the song Season of the Witch LINK !
5. Giant sculpture of Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth) from Pride and Prejudice in lake HUH magazine !
6. How a Bat is like a Bow String from Science Now: LINK  (Thanks Internet Weekly) !
7. BoingBoing featured my newest painting A Gymnast's Memory of Fall LINK !
8. Internet Weekly also featured same painting in their wonderful Art LINKS section!
9. Internet Weekly featured my A Bellhop's Memory of Spring the week before that. LINK !
10. Mardecortesbaja also posted my Gymnast's painting. Thanks, Lloyd!

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Drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

 Avarice 1556

Spring 1565

Mountain Landscape by a River 1553

 

(Click images to enlarge)

A few years ago, I bought an old copy of Pieter Bruegel The Drawings (Complete Edition) by Ludwig Munz , a Phaidon book from 1961. The book is thick and a little musty, but I never get tired of looking at these drawings (just as I never tire of  Goya's Los Caprichos of 1799). Shown above are some examples that I found online. (Follow link to see more.) The landscape drawings, in particular, have proven to be a wonderful reference source for me as they show the architecture of mountains and streams from afar.
I always think about Van Gogh when I see Bruegel's drawings.
He must have studied them intensely. I can see a definite Bruegel influence of style and subject matter in Van Gogh's own drawings.

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What Have I Been Up To?

"Cloudy Day Blues" 12" x 12", oil on wood ©Amy Crehore 2009 (sold)

 

I'm sorry that I haven't posted anything for over a week. I hope you all had a great 4th of July holiday! I hurt my right arm and had to rest it for 5-6 days. It feels better today, so I am able to give you an update. A couple of paintings have sold including the new one "A Gymnast's Memory of Fall". The other painting is from 2009, shown above.

I have been reading the book "Summer in February" which is also a new movie . It is about artists living in Cornwall, UK in 1913. These artists include Dame Laura Knight, her husband Harold, and A.J. Munnings. It is a novel based on real people by Jonathan Smith. I have not only discovered the artists that I just mentioned by reading this book, but also some painters who came before them Jules Bastien-Lepage (the Cornwall artists all worshipped him, his magnificient Joan of Arc hangs in the Met) and Marie Bashkirtseff who wrote a journal which I now want to read.

I'm getting back to drawing and painting now!

 

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New Painting: "A Gymnast's Memory of Fall" (Amy Crehore)

 

Here's my second painting in my new series. It is called "A Gymnast's Memory of Fall".

Oil on linen, 12" x 14" ©Amy Crehore 2013 (Update: this painting has been sold)

I want to thank Boing Boing for blogging this- here's their LINK

 You can also view this painting larger here. 

Both paintings are now on the homepage of my website-

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First painting in the series is called "A Bellhop's Memory of Spring".

Some Links for Your Enjoyment

"The Steps" by painter Jeffrey Smart

1. Interview with wonderful poet & artist Lang Leav - Mirrors Magazine (Lang, thanks for the mention of my art!)
2. Lang Leav's new poetry book, Love & Misadventure, is now available on amazon  and elsewhere (I received my delightful copy on Friday!) Audio clip: LINK
3. Interview with writer Lloyd Fonvielle at the uncouth reflections blog
4. Lloyd Fonvielle's recent e-book: Missouri Green . 
5. 10 tips for a healthy life from world's oldest person LINK
6. The Coralino Project LINK . Very interesting! Grow some coral.
7. Chinese Medicine paintings Zhang Huan (click on slideshow to see paintings made from herbs) LINK 
8. Writer Amy Tan has a ukulele (she likes to spell it ukelele) LINK 
9. Jeffrey Smart, the painter, died recently LINK (a wonderful painting of his is shown above). Check out google images for more. I just discovered him upon his death.
10. "Tall" painting (Holton Rower) on youtube: LINK 
11. Kozmicdogz Breaks Loose posted my studio picture, Thanks, Tom!
12. Another artist that I just discovered - Dame Laura Knight - she did some wonderful cove/cliff paintings around 1917. Here's a LINK 
13. Beer with painter Julie Heffernan LINK
14. Blue Jasmine trailer LINK (Woody Allen's new film coming out in July).
15. Modern Arts Notes Podcast with painter Eric Fischl LINK 
16. Gweek 100 podcast featuring A. J. Jacobs: LINK  Congrats, Mark Frauenfelder for 100th episode of Gweek! (Our Hokum Scorcher's music is on Gweek 014, 015 and 017)
17. L.S. Lowry at Tate: LINK

Stay tuned to this blog.

I will be posting the number two painting in my new series very soon.
See my first painting in the series here (A Bellhop's Memory of Spring)

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