Well, I sent my first newsletter off, I am not happy with it though, it may be my weird text settings but the format appeared all wrong in my mailbox (but fine on the preview! thats how I was suckered). I am sorry if your version was wierdly formatted. Next Months should go better. I…
Yours truly was invited to participate in a group show and will be exhibiting at Artholes gallery from the 7th of July for two weeks!… Redhead is huge and will be the focus with all the other works being small and square…. I am working on two series of paintings and the two sets of portraits for the SCA as well.
Repose Image by Jennie (c). Recently, via my website, I was asked to answer some questions exploring femininity in contemporary art. The questions were quite thought provoking. I have posted the questions and responses here because I know some of you out there have wondered about these same things from time to time. Plus, its…
I am working on a new painting at the moment, it is based on a photograph of Breana I took on an off chance. Its more contemporary rather than classical but I am enjoying the feeling that is starting to emerge. I haven’t had a whole lot of strength lately as the examination last week…
My new printed marketing materials have arrived and I am very excited. I am nervous too but I think it will be a good thing. I have started making a list up, getting contacts together and the like – its funny really, I hated marketing so much when I had to do it for someone…
I have had a busy time and have not updated my blog. I have finished my painting and varnished it, now I just await a good tome to photograph it. A number of shows have sent me their information and I have to sift through it all and decide what to send and get my…
Today was my day for getting show info. This year I plan to have two solo exhibitions (more if I can afford it), One or two group exhibitions and entry into several shows. It is quite an ambitious plan for this year but I believe I am up to the challenge! I need to be…
Do you ever feel that art is your calling – That one true thing that anchors your purpose and gives you love, hope, and meaning each day?… Maybe you are a gallerist or curator who basks in the feeling of the perfect musical note when your exhibition is perfectly organized and hung. Or, perhaps an art dealer who realizes great joy by being the essential conduit through which art finds its place in the world of man.
Pilgrimage of Our Lord to Emmaus Image by BBC News (c). Supper at Emmaus Image by National Gallery (c). This is quite exciting, although it still amazes me that people can ‘discover’ something in an attic or loft that was long forgotten. the only thing I have ever ‘discovered’ was a random $50 note in…
It clearly shows that Leonardo’s original aim was to create a different painting rather than a copy.Rather than examine the artist’s motives here (which should be pretty obvious!) I think it is interesting that a copy was requested in the first place (I have always wondered about that) and why the other topic was rejected.It is interesting to see that even the great Leonardo Da Vinci had difficulties having his works accepted and problems with patrons.The discovery of this drawing will most likely raise the question that comes up every time a great master’s work is discovered under another – whether to destroy the surface painting to restore the new one…. But in this case, when there is another ‘copy’ and it was possibly not the artist’s wish to create the surface painting..
Jennie's Palette 