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Comment by Jay Egge on September 7, 2009 at 10:46am

here is another possible entry this year and a commission i just finished.

Comment by Jay Egge on September 2, 2009 at 9:46am

You probrably have seen or will see one of these Old Master Copies at "Fakes and Forgeries "

Comment by Jay Egge on August 21, 2009 at 10:39am

i mostly copy the old masters to stregthen my techniques in portrait painting but sometimes i do it because i admire a work and its creator. i did not intrigued with of most of Seymour Lawrence's work though he is obviously a great technical landscape master until i saw "Venetian Fishing Ship" in an Art &Antiques magazine and it blew me away with it's atmospheric feeling and mood. i felt like i was on a Venetian Island watching the activity on the ship. i was going to enter it this year at Spring Bull but it has sold.

Comment by SusiFranco on February 8, 2009 at 5:59pm

Here's my Great Fake for this year----usually I get all serious about doing a dead-on copy; this year, I went for a little levity, not unlike Sir Jonathan. :) There's a REALLY funny story about the frame I put on this work; remind me to tell you sometime- it's the kind of thing only aonter artist would love. :)
Enjoy~
PS-I'm giving you both the REAL Gaugin as well as my "forgery".

Comment by Jonathan Small on January 26, 2009 at 5:07pm

I've just done my take of Magritte's The Treason of Images. The plaque basically translates as: "This is not a pipe...nor a Magritte either!"

Comment by Bob Eggleton on May 31, 2008 at 12:18am

Susi-we have some insane collection of art books. I would hate to think about moving. We have hundreds.
The Ca Impressionists book is by William H Gerdts and Will South and it's called CALIFORNIA IMPRESSIONISM.It;s a thick, 12x12 book. Very cool.

Nick in Australia does the Sister Wendy impression. Among many. He's a painter too, and does some amazing work.

Yeah, mmmmm I'm getting hungry at this late hour with suggestions of such food! As the summer warms, we should get together. You sound like our kind of people!

Comment by SusiFranco on May 30, 2008 at 11:19pm

Okay, I'm tryin' REAL hard not to see the visual of someone doing an impression of Sister Wendy. :) You tell Miz Marianne we should have an artist's tea party ( maybe with Prosecco in the cups instead of tea) and she can bring that yummy chocloate cake and I'll make a strawberry-rhubarb pie, or maybe sweet potato pecan pie. We could have a Summer Solstice party or some such, with bunches of artists from here, pot-luck ( and desserts) kinda thing...we can all talk about Art until our ears fall off. Whatcha think ? Oh--which book on the California Impressionists, if I may ask ?? I get lost in art books, sometimes for entire days....LOL...love reading just about anything on art, up to and including paint tube labels. :):):):)

Comment by Bob Eggleton on May 25, 2008 at 3:06pm

Oh Turner is delish. His paintings are just amazing. And yeah, chocolate cake is da bomb. My wife(Marianne Plumridge who's here too) makes this L' Elizabeth(the tea place on N. Main in Providence that charges like $$$$$ for tea and cake) chocolate cake that's to die for.

I have an ENTIRE BOOK on the California Impressionists. They're great, just lumps of paint and it all looks great.

I've seen Sister Wendy and a friend of mine in Australia does this hysterically funny impersonation of her. Yeah, she breaks it down so everyone can enjoy or understand art. ANd I everyone should! Art suffers two problems-some of the high brow exponents of it prefer to keep it this kind of stuck up experience,la-dee-da and so on. Conversely, people who aren't artists are convinced they can't "get it" so why bother? I think everyone is creative, they just let little things clog that up and are convinced they can't do or appreciate anything creative.

I have the DVDs of Simon Scharma's The Power of Art which was this BBC doco series that wound up on PBS here. He did a show on Turner, with a guy acting out the part as JMW himself!!! It was very well done. Turner was a really rabble-rouser(sort of like me) and boat rocker. He went from rags to riches..to rags again, despite being rich...in the end, he kind of went mad and some of his vague canvases were done in this time.
He also made it clear art is NOT a "neat" and tidy vocation. WHen you use paint, it should get your hands dirty. He also had this huge finger nail that was an inch or more long and he kept to to scratch into his paintings. So when you see scratches, in his work, it's his nail!

In fact, Turner will be the subject of a massive show at the Met in NYC starting July 1st! I was in Dallas and we happened to go to it there-it's really great. I bought the DVD and book that goes with the show.

Yeah this site is addictive and, it's bringing together ALOT of people. I'm thrilled and amazed.

Comment by SusiFranco on May 24, 2008 at 8:50pm

I love Turner, too, Bob....Mmmmmmmmm, yummy paintings. No disrespect intended, just that the light in his work is plain ole' delicious. I love it like I love chocolate cake. :)
I have so many favorites that it is impractical to list them all, but the early California Impressionists just blow me away. Wolf Kahn and his ideas on color theory are a sort of religion for me, LOL. Bonnard !! LOVE 'im. 'K, I have to stop listing my favorite artists here, or else it'll turn into a doctoral dissertation. LOL.
Hey Bob---have you had the experience of watching Sister Wendy's videos on Art ?? It's like going to church, Dude, only in a gallery. :):):):) I got them all from the library and kept returning then checking them out again til they made me stop. :) I highly recommend them all; she really does have QUITE an Art History head. She helps you to see what the painters were possibly thinking about, what they wanted to acheive with their great works. I am in love with that video series, it makes all those Masters so very real and palpable for the viewer. You can learn things you never would've guessed about the Great Masters; like who was a notoriously cheap bastard, who went bankrupt, who gambled, so forth and so on. Pretty surprising ! I get caught in the trap of thinking because an artist creates ( a sacrosanct act), he/she is a mystical, blessed and a near-celestial being, capable of only good & productive things. Every now and then somebody jumps off their pedestal and lands on my head. LOL
Anyway, if you haven't seen the video series, go for it, I promise you, it'll fascinate you completely.
BTW-do you love painting on panels ?? I adore that I can get so much more brushwork out of a panel than a canvas. I'm forever "re-purposing"(<---P.C. for scavenging) items such as composite wood panels from shelving; prime them a bit with gesso, then have at it. When I finish them, I put a couple eye hooks on the sides ( not the back), and use gold chain from the hardware store ( looks like jewelry kinda, pretty) and connect it from eye hook to the other, cool hanger. If you want a l'il embellsihment, you can hang mini gold tassels on those eye hooks along with the chain; very decorative and classy in an Old World sorta way.
Okay, I'm done. :) I'm lovin' this. There are SUCH cool people here ! :)

Comment by Bob Eggleton on May 23, 2008 at 12:18pm

Anytime Susi. I'm fairly forward about technique sharing. I tend to dislike that "polished cotton" feel of store canvases and yet, stretching my own is a p.i.t.a. Although I got really inspired and did four last week. So on smaller canvas boards, I just mess up the surface so it's uneven and a challenge to paint on. Bierstadt is one of the Elder Gods of painting. He's in the Forge of Valhalla of Artists, IMHO, along with Church,Cole,and alot of British painters-Turner, Constable. I also like George Inness, Winslow Homer. As far as "alive" artists it's Stephen Hannock, Jamie Wyeth, among several.

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