Showing posts with label Botticelli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Botticelli. Show all posts

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Venus after Botticelli

Venus After Botticelli, watercolor, 10x14, available. I painted this copy of Botticelli's Venus for a contest aboard a Princess cruise. Our table friends and I had a lot of fun creating an original presentation with costumes, floating devices, this painting as a banner, a march of all of us around the pool, etc. and we almost won!!!! but we didn't.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Cuisine de Nat & Fred

Cuisine de Nat & Fred, watercolor, 4x6" (10x15cm.) As I paint everywhere I go, when I was in Chantilly and Paris last week, I did this small watercolor of my friend's kitchen.
Styles in Painting, by Paul Zucker, wonderful book. The author compares same genre paintings from different painters, and different times, sometimes different centuries. Great idea, amazing results! In the "Three Graces" category, for example, he compares "The Three Graces" in a Pompeiian mural from the year 70 A.D., with Raphael's, Botticelli's, Vasari's and Rubens' "Three Graces". Your homework: find and look at these paintings, and send me a message: which of the four painters I've mentioned copied almost exactly from the Pompeiian mural?
Cocina de Nat & Fred, acuarela. Como yo pinto en todas partes donde voy, cuando estuve en Chantilly y Paris la semana pasada, hize esta pequena acuarela de la cocina de mis amigos.
Styles in Painting, (Estilos en Pintura) de Paul Zucker, fantastico libro. El autor compara el mismo genero de pinturas de diferentes pintores y distintas epocas, a veces siglos. Gran idea, resultados asombrosos! En la categoria "Las Tres Gracias", por ejemplo, el compara "Las Tres Gracias" en un mural de Pompeya del ano 70, con "Las Tres Gracias" de Raphael, Botticelli, Vasari, y Rubens. Tu tarea: encuentra y mira con cuidado estas pinturas, y enviame un mensaje: cual de estos cuatro pintores que he mencionado copio casi exactamente del mural de Pompeya?