Monthly Archives: May 2013

As a tennis fan— watching, sadly not playing–long hours of summer, Sunday mornings are spent struggling to tear myself away from the TV as my Catholic upbringing shouts that I should be doing something that is at least productive if … Continue reading →

After looking at self-portraits in class and online, mentally list words might that be used to describe the people in the portraits (beside creepy and scary–there seems to be a lot of that)  –Saatchi online portraits- http://www.saatchionline.com/buy-art?query=abstract+portraits —   Can the visual and the … Continue reading →

Vincent Van Gogh is responsible for creating almost 900 oil painting and some 1,300 watercolors, sketches and drawings, not including his many small sketch books. He embarked on his artist’s path around 1880 although his first “major” oil painting, the … Continue reading →