Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts

Sunday, October 13, 2013

LES FRERES, pastel

Les Freres, (The Brothers), pastel, 16x20in.

"Every portrait that one paints with soul is a portrait, not of the model, but of the artist."--Oscar Wilde.

"A painting is a poem that one can see instead of feel, and poetry is a painting that one can feel instead of seeing it." --Leonardo da Vinci.

"It's the canvas of nature that the imagination has embroidered." --Voltaire

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

From my Balcony

From my Balcony, watercolor, 9x6, available. This is my balcony in SanDiego, California. My studio is facing this view.
Oscar Wilde has said: "All art is perfectly useless." And so it is. Useless, just like a sunset, a field of flowers, a gentle breeze, the song of birds, the view of magnificent mountains....

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Goya y La Seo en Zaragoza

Goya y La Seo en Zaragoza, watercolor, 15x10 cm. Available: 40 Euros, or $60 US.
A statue of Goya bottom left, and the impossing tower of the Zaragoza Cathedral, or "Seo" behind him. A Sunday morning travel journal watercolor, while visiting this beautiful city.  Oscar Wilde has said: "All art is perfectly useless."
Goya y La Seo en Zaragoza, acuarela. Disponible.
Una estatua de Goya abajo a la izquierda, y la imponente torre de la Catedral de Zaragoza, o "Seo" detras de Goya. Una acuarela en mi cuaderno de viajes mientras visitaba esta hermosa ciudad. Oscar Wilde ha dicho: " Todo lo que es arte es perfectamente inutil."