The image above, Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, is my favorite among his paintings. In my art class in 1996, when Vermeer’s works were shown at the National Art Gallery in Washington, DC, my art teacher asked us to copy it. Armed with just a small magazine print of the painting, I started working…
Month: January 2013
STOP THE CARNAGE!
I painted “Voices of Hope”to express my solidarity with the protesting women of the Middle East whose voices against the carnage in their homelands are muffled by politics and guns.
Copying images – theft or compliment?
I google myself rarely but did several days ago and was surprised to find my painting Grief (below) in a few sites. I had the same experience a couple of years ago and wrote on the blog of the author, asking why my permission was not asked before posting the image. The image had been…
Happy New Year to all!
I wish everyone good health, good cheer, and better circumstances in your endeavors. I might as well wish myself the same things. A few thoughts about my art came to mind: Where is my art going? Is it going anywhere? Does it matter? Of course, it does to any artist. Will I carry on painting?…