Oil Painting
6×6″ panel
This painting panel has finished beveled edges. The buyer will receive a tabletop easel with this purchase.
“Sweat Lodge Frames”
Photograph
Back from a week in beautiful Montana! Imagine the great Rockies as far as the eye could see, horses roaming acres of fields, eagles soaring, clear winding rivers, wind farms, prairie dogs, sapphire mines, First Peoples Buffalo Jump….which is where the photo was taken.
The literature from the First Peoples Buffalo Jump (Ulm Pishkun) State Park describes: For more than 1,000 years, prehistoric men and women of the Great Plains hunted bison by driving them over cliffs. Ulm Pishkun, is possibly the largest buffalo jump in the world, was used as a jump site between 900 and 1500 A.D. Below the cliffs that stretch more than a mile, the soil reveals compacted bison bones nearly 13 feet deep.
Consider this: “The buffalo was part of us, his flesh and blood being absorbed by us until it became our own flesh and blood. Our clothing, our tipis, everything we needed for life came from the buffalo’s body. It was hard to say where the animal ended and the man began.”
John Lame Deer (Sioux) 1972
“Peace Lily”
Silverpoint Drawing
7×5″ prepared paper
“Peace Lily” was drawn with a silver wire on paper that I prepared with a gray-green tone and heightened with white. This is a drawing medium known as silverpoint, which was used extensively during the Renaissance era. The term Metalpoint encompasses any metals that may be used, such as copper, gold, bronze, etc., but silver is the most popular. Over time the silver lines will tarnish to a metallic sepia tone. To learn more about this medium please visit My Website by clicking on the link at right.
To the buyer: A mat will be added to the drawing and a Silverpoint Description card will be attached.
“Seagull Skull”
Silverpoint Drawing
10.5×6″ lavender prepared paper
This was drawn with a silver stylus on a specially prepared surface – a drawing medium known as silverpoint. When first drawn, the lines look gray like pencil but over time these silver lines will tarnish to a metallic sepia tone. To learn more about this Renaissance-era drawing medium, please visit My Website by clicking on the link at bottom right.
To the buyer: A mat will be added to this drawing and a Silverpoint Description card will be attached.
“Shell X-ray, 2”
X-ray Photograph
Aren’t these inside views thrilling? I think the shell silverpoint, posted May 3, is similar to the left one. More to come…
“Shell X-ray, 1”
X-ray Photograph
As promised in my last post, here is one of many x-ray photos that I had someone take of a box of seashells almost 20 years ago. These are some of the most elegant images I’ve ever seen. Secret spaces revealed. To see this shell as the subject of a silverpoint drawing, please go to archives on the upper right column to see the Oct. 21, 2008 blog post “Round and Around.”
“Seashell”
Silverpoint Drawing
3×5″ blue-gray prepared paper
Seashells make a great silverpoint subject. While drawing, I get to know the particular shell and wonder about the deeper interior space. It’s true that the more you look, the more you see. One of these days I’ll post some x-ray images that I have of different shells in my collection. Interior space indeed!
This was drawn with a silver stylus on a specially prepared surface – a medium known as silverpoint, which was used extensively during the Renaissance era. Tones are built up with layers of lines and much patience. The silver metal lines will tarnish over time to a warm sepia tone.
I prepared the paper with a pale blue-gray tone, then used white ink for highlights. To learn more about Silverpoint please visit My Website.
“Diana and Friend”
Oil Painting
7×5″ panel
This is the latest challenge from Different Strokes from Different Folks blog, where artists are encouraged to work creatively from a photograph that is posted bi-weekly.
The price includes shipping and tabletop easel. The edges of the panel are beveled, looking good on that easel.
“T. H.”
Silverpoint Drawing
4×6.5″ lavender prepared paper
This goes to my good friend Terri H.
It was drawn with a silver stylus on a specially prepared surface – a drawing medium known as silverpoint. The lines look gray, like pencil, but over time the silver lines will tarnish to a metallic sepia tone. To learn more about this Renaissance-era drawing medium, please visit My Website by clicking on the link at bottom right.
“Pretzel”
Oil Painting
3×3″ bevel-edge panel
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