Bill's posts with tag: paintings
|  | All in all it's just another brick in the wall... |
| | I find painting a stress-buster, as I said before; but I've not really painted since December 2006, even though the last year in general, and the last few weeks in particular have been extremely harrowing for me.
This evening I finally applied watercolour to paper again to produce these two. They aren't particularly detailed, but I wasn't looking for detail; I wanted to get emotions down on paper. I don't know whether I succeeded; but here it is for you to judge. Feedback is requested. |
| | This morning (at 3am) I saw an odd-shaped cloud in the sky. I tried to photograph it but it was too dark. So I picked up my brushes after a long, long time and did this quickie painting of it.
I don't really know why it appealed to me so much, but it did. |
Amazing painter. Make sure that you watch till the end or you won't "get it". It is worth the wait. Take it from me. Import.flv (13.3 MB)
 Once in a while, the Church gets caught in its own snarls.
For example, in order to explain just why the allegedly sinless Son of God, Jesus, should have to be baptised (washed free of sin) by John the Baptist and just who gave him the authority to do so, the Church invented a story which had John, as an infant, protected by the Angel Gabriel, meet Jesus while he and his "parents" were on the flight to Egypt. It commissioned, later, Leonardo da Vinci to paint the scene. Leonardo painted two versions, the more important and earlier of which is above. It depicts Mary, Gabriel, and two - apparently identical - children, one of whom is (with Mary's arm protectively round him) kneeling to receive the blessings of the other, who is with Gabriel. Note Mary's hand hovering threateningly, claw like, over the head of the child with Gabriel.
So, are we to believe that Leonardo exchanged children, so Mary is protecting John and menacing Jesus? If not, then Jesus is asking John's blessings, which does seem to be a send-up of Church doctrine. Leonardo was a known admirer of John the Baptist.
Oh yes: check out the two symmetrical round rocks behind Mary with, between them, another rising, vertically, up into the air, crowned by terminal swelling. Remind you of something?
No wonder the painting is called The Virgin of the Rocks...
| | Child abuse is usually thought of mainly in terms of sexual and/or physical violence. But there are other ways...here are a few I thought about. I will paint, I think, more in this series and add them as time goes by. |
| | ...to be shot at dawn... |
| | The iron road, that is |
| | Decided to paint my own |
| | OK, I don't intend these to be taken seriously. I was just playing around here. |
| | These are two versions of the cover for my first novel, "Rainbow's End". The first painting was done in the early part of the year. The publisher actually accepted it and then, suddenly, rejected it and demanded a new cover. One of the demands was for the human figure (my "hero" Rollin, it was meant to be) on the right so as to make it on the front cover. So I painted it again, and I think I did a better job second time around. |
| | The first two are new, the last four VERY old ones which I rediscovered. In fact the last four are a bit of an embarrassment, they are not really watercolours since I used the sketch-pen a lot. I should probably not post them at all... Still... |
| | This time they are a bit more monochrome. Well, even I can change my style once in a while, can't I? |
| | Watercolour on paper, as usual. Painting is great for busting stress. |
| | All are watercolour on paper. I guess they could do with enlargement to discern detail. |
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