New Painting: Tomboy's Memory of Winter (by Amy Crehore)

Here is my latest painting: "Tomboy's Memory of Winter"

12" x 14", oil on linen, 2014

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Here are some details:

Update: 7/20/14 This painting has been sold and is headed to NY

Violino Arpa, a most beautiful design

Violino Arpa / Amoeba Shaped Violin, collection of the Danish Music Museum, Copenhagen

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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Letterpress Print by Amy Crehore on Sale



Here's a detail of my Shygals' Serenade 3-color limited edition letterpress print. 

Follow this link to view larger image. On sale for a limited time.

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Holes for Breathing

I could not resist blogging this photo of a full face swimming mask from the 1920s.

(Thanks retronaut via Memory of the Netherlands)

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Spring!

Spring in Oregon - photo taken the other day

Detail of my painting- "A Fig Leaf Parasol"  (Amy Crehore 2012)
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Revisiting my L.A. solo show

It was called "Dreamgirls and Ukes". It took place at Thinkspace in L.A. in Feb 2009.

There were 15 paintings and 13 painted ukes. The Hokum Scorchers (Lou Reimuller and I)

 played music at the opening. 

Here's one of my paintings- "Monkey Love Song" (Amy Crehore).

Here's the link to all images-

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The Dancer and the Lily (Lilliput Pocket Omnibus 1930s)

Love these two comparison images from the book Lilliput Pocket Omnibus 1937
Here are some more! 
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1920s Illustrated Children's Covers by Takeo Takei

Covers by Takeo Takei for the illustrated magazine "Children's Land", 1922–33 on
  50 Watts blog 
Follow this link for more! These are amazing. Thanks,Will.

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Look at all those buttons!

This is possibly my favorite Jean-Antoine Watteau painting. The costume of The Pierrot is impeccably painted. His face is amazing. The composition with the figures and donkey gathered around the bottom is just right. 

 Gilles (or Pierrot) and Four Other Characters of the Commedia dell'arte, c. 1718. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Hieronymous Bosch's Painted Butt Music

Love this! A college student in Oklahoma named Amelia transcribed and
recorded the music that Bosch painted on the butt of a sinner guy in hell
(from The Garden of Earthly Delights).
More info: LINK (globalpost)
A few people have told me over the years that my painting style sort of looks like Bosch and
I am getting a huge kick out of this butt story. Plus, it is one of my favorite paintings ever in the history of art.
To this day, Bosch's imaginative art still charms the pants off people. Bosch was so modern and funny.
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