Yesim on a throne ⠀ Last week I shared a small detail of the biggest painting I’d made up to that point. I made it during a 2 week intensive training in painting portraits and still life. The lovely @teresaoaxaca gave great instructions on how to set up the canvas, work with texture, light, chroma. I’ve enjoyed it and learned so much.⠀ .⠀ ▪️⠀ ▪️⠀ ▪️⠀ .⠀ #painting #oilpainting #artschool #training #artistintraining #flowers #dolls #art #grapes #fineart #chroma #inbruges #paintfirst #sightseelater (at Flemish Classical Atelier)
Augusta Dohlmann (May 9, 1847 - 1914) was a Danish painter, known for her flower paintings and still life compositions. Dohlmann studied and worked mainly in Paris where female artists had better access to art schools and academies and to being recognized for their abilities as artists. Back in Denmark Dohlmann helped start the Academy affiliated art school for women and to organize the 1895 Women’s Exhibition.
Above:Still Life with Birds, Vegetables and Spanish Grapes, 1902 - oil on canvas (Privately owned)
Olive trees, vineyards, Mediterranean scrub, millennial traditions, sweet hills and impervious peaks, the sea that connected Greece and Italy more than 2.000 years ago, two languages (one of which is lost in history and still exists only here). Old Calabria, the undiscovered gem of Southern Italy.
My dad had this neat story idea a while back about a kingdom whose main export was wine running afoul of some dark magicks. The kingdom was cursed that all the wine in their barrels and the grapes in their fields would turn to blood, and the blood of the royal family would turn to wine. Bad times were had by all.
Also available on Instagram, as well as new work I haven’t scanned yet!
Olive trees, vineyards, Mediterranean scrub, millennial traditions, sweet hills and impervious peaks, the sea that connected Greece and Italy more than 2.000 years ago, two languages (one of which is lost in history and still exists only here). Old Calabria, the undiscovered gem of Southern Italy.
Dionysoswas the Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy. His attributes included the thyrsos (a pine-cone tipped staff), a drinking cup and a crown of ivy. He was usually accompanied by a troop of Satyrs and Mainades (wild female devotees). Dionysos was a son of Zeus and the princess Semele of Thebes.
2018 is drawing to an end and so am I. Finishing up a set of runes featuring stones and plants for the new year. Othala: Homestead, acquisition, legacy, maturing. Grape and spinel.
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