While I was searching for rabbits yesterday I found a rabbit by Lucian Freud, and this Sleeping Cat. I’d seen neither of these before, and thought they were sweet. So unrecognizable as Freuds! Both were made in 1944, when Freud was 22. [image_with_animation image_url=”8842″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”8829″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
In Friday’s post I bragged about the drawings created in my recent Painterly Figures with Tone class. The earlier post shared how beautiful a drawing can be when the figure is sketched with no more or less attention than the wall behind it, with no outlines or delineations of form, only scribbles of tone. Today’s …
I love our art shows! They are big events, over 100 artworks in each of our last two Big League Shows! A fabulous range of artworks and artists collected to form a dynamic and inclusive arts community. Let’s do it again! CALL FOR ART! League members, and everyone who has taken or taught a class at the League …
Yesterday I said the next post would be about color, but I didn’t have time to write today, and there has been so much bad news that I wanted to put a little art in your inbox. Today is an addition to yesterday’s post about the Effects of Light, with illusions of glow produced from …
Lucian Freud’s Sleeping Cat
While I was searching for rabbits yesterday I found a rabbit by Lucian Freud, and this Sleeping Cat. I’d seen neither of these before, and thought they were sweet. So unrecognizable as Freuds! Both were made in 1944, when Freud was 22. [image_with_animation image_url=”8842″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”8829″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
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