The English Garden
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The English Garden
watercolor © Cynthia Allman SOLD
Serenity is not freedom from the storm,
but peace amid the storm.
Anon.
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A Painting Today: “Three’s Company”
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6 x 8"
oil on panel
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This study was a test for me - wanting to take on a larger painting with David Hockney's Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy. As simplistic as Hockney's composition is, it's the reproduction that just ain't as easy as I thought. But I've always been intrigued with his painting.
The two were Hockney's friends in London - Ossie Clark, a dress designer and Celia Birtwell, a fabric designer. Hockney portrayed couples in several very large paintings. The difference here is notably the two are looking at the viewer, other paintings have at least one looking off to the side. He painted them in their flat in Notting Hill Gate, in their bedroom where the light was favorable to Hockney. The tough part, the artist said, was the couple was against the light which darkens the figures indoors. He did many studies and experiments to get the composition, the lighting and the couple's expressions right - going against the standard portrait of a couple where the woman is seated and the man stands next to her.
Percy was one of the Clarks' cats who symbolizes a libertine and somebody who disregards rules and does what he pleases. Sounds right. The vase of lilies to the left of Celia are a symbol of the Annunciation and feminine purity.
Hockney was best man at the Clarks' wedding. The space between them in his painting is said to be prophetic - the marriage didn't last.
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Jim Carrey Painting Depicts Donald Trump Crucifying Jesus
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The comedy actor shared a new painting on Sunday featuring Trump crucifying Jesus Christ. The Trump caricature, his face twisted in anger, drives a nail through Jesus’ palm as blood pours out.
The “Bruce Almighty” actor offered his interpretation of “Christianity, Trump style” in the caption. “Jesus was a loser,” the comedian imagined Trump saying. “A failed carpenter. He’s a savior because he was crucified. I like people that weren’t crucified.”
Carrey included a voter registration link, as he has done in some other recent artworks in a campaign to oust Republicans in elections.
Trump’s continued attacks on immigrants and his zero tolerance border policy may have inspired Carrey. On Sunday, the president called for immigrants who illegally enter the country to be deported without judicial proceedings.
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A Painting Today: “Two By Two”
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8 x 10"
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In 1890, in a letter to his sister, Vincent van Gogh described his joy of painting multiple versions sunflowers. He wrote the paintings were “almost a cry of anguish while symbolizing gratitude in the rustic sunflower.” It brought him comfort and familiarity and raised his spirits, he continued to write.
A couple stands between van Gogh's Sunflowers and Still Life: Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers exhibited together in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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This Artist Is Humanizing The Homeless Through His Dynamic Portraits
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When Brian Peterson first had the idea to paint Matt Faris’s portrait, his goal was small. He just wanted to hang the painting in his home in Santa Ana, California. “I thought there was beauty in his face, and in his struggle,” Peterson said about Faris, who is experiencing homelessness. But after painting Faris and seeing the impact it had on him, as well as other members in the community, a light bulb went off for Peterson.
That light bulb turned out to be the beginning of Faces of Santa Ana, the nonprofit Peterson co-founded with his wife, Vanessa, in which he paints portraits of people experiencing homelessness in Santa Ana. They then use a majority of the proceeds to create what they call a “love account” in order to assist the painting subjects with whatever they choose — food, clothing, hotel stays and art projects among them. Since the nonprofit’s inception in 2015, Peterson has painted 30 portraits and sold 21 of them; they sell for $2,500 each.
“A huge part of Faces of Santa Ana [is] really about dignifying those who have lost all dignity in themselves,” Peterson said. He added, “Along those lines…you’re also just, on a basic level, taking people who are sort of metaphorically invisible and making them visible in the most literal sense of the term — you’re turning them into art. You’re making them as visible as they can be.”
We’ve partnered with TIAA to tell Brian Peterson’s story as part of the TIAA Difference Maker 100, a program celebrating individuals in the nonprofit space making a difference. Check out the video above in which Peterson shares the origin story of Faces of Santa Ana, reveals a painting to one of his subjects for the first time and more.
All over the United States, people like Brian Peterson are working to make positive and lasting change in the lives of others. We’ve partnered with TIAA to celebrate its centennial — 100 years of helping people doing good do well — and to put the spotlight on visionaries whose inspirational work is shaping the next century. Learn more here: www.TIAAdifferencemaker100.org.
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Protected Area
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Protected Area SOLD
watercolor © Cynthia Allman
Awards:
Best in Show
Brunswick Art Works "ArtWorks '14" Exhibition
Ohio Watercolor Society / Jack Richeson & Co., Inc. Award
The Ohio Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition 2013
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"Light Baggage"
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9 x 12"
oil on panel
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Irises are blooming everywhere here in Atlanta, inspiring me to paint Vincent van Gogh's Irises being admired by a visitor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The Red Piano Art Gallery sold it before I could even add it to my website, so a larger view will follow soon.
~ Happy Friday. Go get your vaccination shots.
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