Sunday, March 28, 2010

Paintings of Mom

These are a couple of paintings I painted for my Mom currently hanging in my Mother's house. They're both of my Mom the Queen with red hair! My Mom had long, wavy, strawberry-blonde hair as a young girl and has a big heart, thus the subjust matter; and I think possibly a big iron sword under her skirt, but I digress. Both of these paintings actually have alot of texture in them. The queen painting has sparkly jewels encrusted in her crown, and little three dimensional diamond shape textures all around the thrown which you can't see in this photo. (Note to self: take close-ups of detail.) It just happened that the two paintings have striped backgrounds.
tina-louise paintings
acrylic 16 x 20
on gallery wrapped canvas

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Inspiration Videos

These videos are so artistically inspirational. I borrowed them from one of my favorite painters blogs. :D

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The Omo People - Tribal Body Art

I've been fortunate enough to stumble on a YouTube video going around on the internet with beautiful images of the Omo people. They are a group of tribes in the Omo Valley of Ethopia. They use their bodies as canvases and their amazing body art is totally spontaneous and for their own pleasure!

Hans Silvester created a book featuring photos of the Omo people. Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa. Very inspiring! I hope you enjoy their art as much as I do.

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