This is a Dining Room Ceiling I painted in a private home. I refer to this house as my "Mini Versailles," as I fauxed the entire downstairs over the course of a year.
This ceiling was stenciled around the perimeter in gold metallic paint. The four "marble" inserts in the corners and the central painting of the sky surrounded by a laurel leaf border were all painted on canvas and then installed using wallpaper paste. The crown mouldings and other decorative mouldings on the ceiling are real and I painted them in gold metallic paint and aged them. -- LaPinturaBella
Welcome to KOS Art Expo 19, an internet museum of the beautiful and the curious brought to you by the artists and poets of Daily Kos. Please enjoy!
A Painting by duccio46 entitled Small House on Napa Street,
Here is a small house, almost a shack, that nevertheless retained some Victorian charm until it was foreclosed in the Great Recession and then sold on speck after a quick “fix-up” and price increase. It had the look of one of those kit houses that were available in the Sears Catalog from the late 19th C. Vallejo has many small houses from that era. Mine is one of them.
Acrylic on canvas. 10x8”
A Poem by Angmar,
A Figure Painting by morgansmom entitled Knot #1,
The medium is hand ground Chinese ink on vellum finish Bristol board. I did these (see Knot #2 below) while recovering from neck surgery in 2015, and felt how these figures looked: twisted in a knot. Size: each painting is approx. 16" X 11"
A Poem by DrLori,
A Painting by LaPinturaBella entitled Francesca (2019)
I am painting this for myself to be hung as a tapestry in my dining room. The figure is from “Young Italian Girl Drawing Water From a Well ” (1871) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (one of my Top 3 favorite artists.) I added the Tuscan scenery so it won’t be a complete forgery!
A Pastel by Tortmaster’s enormously talented Sister,
“Jazz Band Playing ‘Recovery Road’—Stage 3” by Leslie Salzillo (Acrylics on Canvas),
A Poem by hay seed entitled Angler,
A Poem by DrLori,
A drawing by morgansmom entitled Cherry Tomato,
Cherry Tomato was created using an Ebony Pencil and watercolor pencils on thick sketchpad paper. It is a drawying of a photo I took of the first ripe tomato in my garden in the spring of 2015. Size: 8 1/2" X 11"
A Painting by Ralphdog,
A Poem by Angmar,
A Painting by duccio46,
B and W Cafe, Vallejo, CA.
This place is just down the alley from me and I used to go often for breakfast and to chat with Cathy and Wanda. We became great friends. Many of the patrons were regulars and I got to know most of them. The place was open for about 25 years, but Cathy has retired and it now has new owners, and what it was, is gone.
A Poem by hay seed entitled Plaint of the Chaos Omega,
A Watercolor on Paper by Trot entitled Venus,
A Poem by DrLori,
A Poem and Painting by hay seed,
Her Name is Cindy
Her name is Cindy and her smile is beautiful
She sits in a wheelchair on the corner downtown
as people go by
Many ignore her but she smiles and says
“God bless you” to everyone who looks her way
She sells the street newspaper
because she’s homeless
She is small and thin and
ravaged by life and time
She lights up when she sees a friendly face
and always asks how you are doing
She has nothing, nothing at all,
compared to all the people who
walk by her and don’t look
But her name is Cindy
and her smile is beautiful.
Poem by cat50
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A Painting by Ralphdog,
For clarity
Embrace havoc
Lay down with rabid wolves
Evoke the memory
Older than our lives
Circulating within our very blood
Community
Homelessness
Wild Providence
(Sausalito, Ca 1986)
-- Justice Putnam"Calloused Innocence"
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An Acrylic Painting on Canvas entitled, “Jek at Rest,” by Trot in 2018,
A Painting by duccio46 entitled Benicia Boat Graveyard.
Benicia is a beautiful small town on the Sacramento River. This boat graveyard features several decaying scows and barges anchored offshore. There is also a derelict crane on one of the barges. Off to the right in the distance is the Carquinez Strait separating Crockett from Vallejo, opening onto the San Pablo and San Francisco Bays.
Acrylic on wood panel. 10.5x12”
We lived in cities
Worshiped in shafts of steel
Carried the disease of ignorance
Infecting mountains with jet thunder
Forests wet with water poison
Sands moved by tumult and wind
We see the moon on the crust
Of a jagged sea
White thorns advancing
Broken glass water
We illuminated the night
We fear a kiss
We are strangers
(San Francisco, Ca 1988)
-- Justice Putnam"Toward an Understanding of Metropolitan America"
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Brit is an Oil on Board painting from 2017 by Trot,
… Is the two-legged animal
With the whip and leash
God?
No
God
Is much
More mysterious
Much more Powerful
Much more the
Provider
Much more the
Taking Away…
‘
— Justice Putnam from: The God Debate: a dialogue between Tom Paine and the Carthaginians”
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Mural by LaPinturaBella,
Mural on Canvas – Venice , FL 2007
This mural in attached to the exterior wall of a private home where the sliding glass door recesses. It is on the Lanai and spruces up the pool area!
By Gwennedd,
Going Home
The sun-washed blue of the sky hurts my eyes
but I don’t want to close them.
I shift a little---breathing hard---
now I can see green tree-tops waving in the wind.
A calm comes through me and soothes my pain.
The cries and screams I hear are fading.
I feel the dirt and grass under my body.
A fly buzzes near, large and iridescent blue.
A soft breeze gives me a last caress
as I think of home and loved ones.
No more pain now.
I close my eyes to sleep and dream.
I don’t know where I will wake
but I am going home.
Poem by cat50
A Figure Painting by morgansmom entitle Knot #2,
The medium is hand ground Chinese ink on vellum finish Bristol board. I did these (see Knot #1 above) while recovering from neck surgery in 2015, and felt how these figures looked: twisted in a knot. Size: each painting is approx. 16" X 11"
A Poem by Angmar,
Oil on canvas by the crazy-talented Sister of Tortmaster:
“My Name is Cash—Johnny Cash” by Leslie Salzillo (Pastels on Paper),
Porcelain and Glass Coasters by MEL in PGH
High fire (Cone 6) porcelain with recycled bottle glass entitled Oceanic Coasters.
A Selection of Tile Styles by MEL in PGH
High fire (Cone 6) porcelain with iron oxide image transfer decals or shellac-resist over black slip. Underglaze color added to grape design.
4 Green Lads (at Chalice Well):
Inspired by a 1930s-era photo of four Glastonbury schoolboys sitting around Chalice Well (the school, since torn down, sat between the Well and the main eastern road into town). The boys gradually transformed into faerie lads as the painting evolved.
Sadly, I don’t own this one any more (finally gave in & sold it to someone who’d fallen in love with it).
A Painting by duccio46 entitled Portrait of Sheba.
An old girlfriend who passed in 1996. This is a small gouache painting in a tiny sketchbook. Sheba aspired to be a Hollywood starlet. It’s a difficult, heartbreaking ambition. Disillusionment comes early in tandem with the fading of all important, youthful beauty. She was something else though.
Gouache on mulberry paper. about 3.5x5”.
A Poem by 2thanks,
One of a series of portraits iconic figure from Glastonbury’s myths & history:
The uncle of Jesus, believed to have visited Glastonbury in the first century A.D. — perhaps bringing his young nephew (as the William Blake poem conjectured “… and did those feet, in ancient times, walk walk upon England’s mountain’s green” — i.e. Glastonbury Tor). Portrait was from imagination (or perhaps memory?), there was only a stained glass window for a visual reference.
A Painting by Ralphdog,
Magical local legend:
It started with a snapshot of one of our community’s revered elders (no longer with us, sadly) dozing against a tree. As I was setting up my palette, the tube of prussian blue was clogged, so I cleared it with the end of a brush, then wiped off the brush randomly on the canvas. After that it pretty much painted itself.
After about an hour, I took a break, looked back from across the room — and saw the face of a lady behind Merlin. The vertical brush strokes to the right had become a procession, not a reed bed. Other figures appeared. And so it went.
Magic!
“Kamala” by Leslie Salzillo (Sketch to Photo to Digital Painting)
A Poem by W.B. Reeves entitled Jimi’s Blues,
Here are a few of the things I do in the way of arts and crafts. I also do quilts but that is another story.