My email inbox has been slow lately. Everyone must be getting ready for the holiday.
There is a pile of Christmas presents that need to get wrapped. They’re blocking the door of my apartment, and spilling into the recycling bin. It’s a delightful mess, all the little contained and uncontainable bits. I said goodbye to good taste this year and purchased the single most tacky wrapping paper I could find. It has bright frosted cookies floating on a pink background. I am adding red and green ribbons, just to set it off.
Here’s a bit of clutter for your email inbox this morning: paintings of wrapping paper. The first two (above and below) are by painters I like very much. Zoey Frank and Susan Jane Walp. Two very not-dead lady painters.
Susan Jane Walp
Hope Zaccogni
Benjamin J Shamback
Christo Wrapped Paintings, 1968 Tarpaulin, rope and wood
You are now at the second half of our 30 day creative challenge. It’s all uphill from here! Did you see the post with some of my favorites? Today’s challenge builds on yesterday’s. You can use the same plant, or even the same drawing, if you wish. This time, instead of drawing continuous contour lines, …
Hey there. I wanted to send out a little personal thank you about V. Notes, this unusual and personal blog series of thoughts and ideas related to art. Initially started as a way to give my painting students more information outside of class, V. Notes now has over 1,000 readers. Many subscribers are part of …
When you think about linear perspective, do you think about this? Search the internet for perspective, and that’s pretty much what you’ll see. Billions of lessons illustrating the importance of one point, two point, and three point perspective. Lessons state that this is something every artist needs to learn in order to correctly render the …
Every president of the United States selects art for the White House. As our 44th president, Barak Obama and his family proceeded to select art – borrowed from three museums in Washington: the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art – for the family quarters, east …
Wrapping Paper Paintings
My email inbox has been slow lately. Everyone must be getting ready for the holiday.
There is a pile of Christmas presents that need to get wrapped. They’re blocking the door of my apartment, and spilling into the recycling bin. It’s a delightful mess, all the little contained and uncontainable bits. I said goodbye to good taste this year and purchased the single most tacky wrapping paper I could find. It has bright frosted cookies floating on a pink background. I am adding red and green ribbons, just to set it off.
Here’s a bit of clutter for your email inbox this morning: paintings of wrapping paper. The first two (above and below) are by painters I like very much. Zoey Frank and Susan Jane Walp. Two very not-dead lady painters.
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