One motif and two media: The Art of Sarah Wimperis

I have been following Sarah's work for a long time and always felt like sharing one of her works.

She just finished the oil version, right picture, of a friend's room in Edinburgh.

The same motif is at the left done with watercolor.

These is what she says at her blog The Red Shoes:

About the oil, left picture:

"Another painting of my dear friends room. I enjoy working in a different media*(sic) with the same subject and it certainly focuses the decisions that you have to make throughout a painting. I love the result, its a sumptuous room and the oils bring a real richness to the colours."

About the watercolor version, right picture:

"I am posting this up now for several reasons, firstly, I think it is finished. I have been working on it over the past couple of weeks and I find that putting things up on my blog helps me to see if there are any bits I want to change or carry on with. Its a bit like viewing your painting in a mirror, it helps to see it clearly." " This work here is big, and some of his are big, it is a difficult medium to take large and he is a master."

You can now look at the two versions and have an idea of what each technique has of differences. This kind of paintings, there are many of them at the web even selling their work for low prices, is the academic version with a touch of impressionism usually inspired by Matisse but never Cezanne and they are soulless. Few artists are capable of mastering this technique imprinting a mark of their own in the canvas just like in the academic art.

An American in Paris2 by Ken Foster

Again? Yes. Ken Foster strikes again. I never thought that a honeymoon, this first post about Ken in Paris explains, could be so inspiring for an artist.

The more I stare the more I feel Paris's cafès, the Louvre that I visited so many times and Paris's atmosphere .

The bridge le Pont Neuf - the New Bridge - I had at my list of must-see in this lifetime since I read "Hopscotch" by Julio Cortázar.

How I wish I knew how to do sketches. Click at the images to enlarge.

An American in Paris by Ken Foster

Another of Ken Foster's great watercolors. This time... in Paris where he spent his honeymoon.

When I was in Paris I lived close to Notre Dame and from my window I could see part of Ile de Saint Louis where the cathedral is. I could also go walking to the Beaubourg.

Ok, the post is about an American and not a Brazilian in Paris.

Ken went with his wife to the cathedral and after that they found

this cafè "Cafè Lutetia".

He took the picture, even in a honeymoon artists don't stop creating, I know because I was married to one. lol

I admire that and this was one of the features that fascinated me. Wow. It is not about me...

Go to Ken's site and take a look at what he wrote about this peice and browse his blog to be enchanted by his work.

Delacroix's Women of Algier

"The Women of Algiers in their apartment", done in 1834, is another of the most 

famous of Delacroix's painting.

The right photography (Reuters) depicts the painting in an exhibition and a woman looking 

at the version Picasso did.

Picasso did versions, reinterpretations of 

other artists like Velazquez's Las Meninas, and works of Monet and El Greco. I will publish them.

Erin McGuire's adventures in blue

Last May I did a post about Erin Mcguire's work at the moment I found her blog and was spelled by her art.
I went back and was enchanted again and as it's always hard to chose two in a good collection I decided for these because I love blue.
At least there is a criterion not very orthodox but a criterion.
But notice that the "action" is not in blue. The cat and the boy with a book in his hand as a shadow and the light that comes from inside is amazing.