New painting - work in progress (by Amy Crehore)

Here's a quick shot of my latest work in progress on my easel. Oil on linen.

It's a winter painting inspired by a snowy week last December. 

I still have more work to do on it, but it is getting there.

Please visit my art website if interested in my work. 

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Recent Travels

Mount Hood photo taken from the airplane window yesterday. 

I posted photos from my travels of the last couple of weeks on my instagram

You can follow me there.

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Leo Fontan painted alluring legs in stockings

Beautiful stocking illustrations by Leo Fontan.

(Found via Richard Holley's facebook page. )

More images can be found on Thought Patterns along with a mini-biography 

of the French artist. 

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Bunnies in a Boat!

Happy Easter! Image via Ralph Paine

A Couple of Cool Videos

This metal-eating bird animation is great. Thanks, boingboing





Video of a waltz that Sir Anthony Hopkins wrote being performed in Vienna!

"Mermaid's Memory of Summer", new painting by Amy Crehore

 "Mermaid's Memory of Summer", oil on linen by Amy Crehore 2014
12" x 14" (click to enlarge)

 Detail of girl with bun

 Detail of bathing cap girl

Detail of island of birds

This painting has now sold to a collector in NYC.
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Felix Vallotton

 Reclining Nude 1914 

Rest 1911

 The White and the Black 1913

Turkish Bath 1907

What a great artist Felix Vallotton was. He was prolific and there are many examples to be found of his work online, however I was only familiar with a couple of his images in books that I have at home. 

Here are a handful of nudes that I found recently when googling his images. His art has a clean, smart sense of design. He had a wonderful feeling for dynamic color and form. 

He even did a portrait of Gertrude Stein. 

Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 – December 29, 1925) was a 

Swiss painter associated with Les Nabis.

Felix Vallotton 

La Chevelure Blonde 1915


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