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Van Gogh’s Chair at Famous Painters Night

Posted in daily painter, Paint Party, tagged Van Gogh, Van Gogh's Chair on March 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Famous Painters March Van Gogh We had the best time at the Famous Painters Party last night at The Studio painting Van Gogh’s Yellow Chair. Everyone did a fabulous job working on their 16″ x 20″ canvas. They look so good! We are going to do the companion piece “Gauguin’s Chair” at the May 24th session.

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Loving Vincent

Posted in Serendipity, tagged Loving Vincent, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh on March 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »

loving-vincent-shop-1398331843 If you do nothing else today you HAVE to watch this film trailer. I’ve been seeing a short video on Facebook the last few days promoting a new film about Vincent Van Gogh. It is and animated film about his life being made entirely using paintings in his swirling-choppy style and based on his letters. It is AMAZING!

You must watch this short video about the film…..and then watch the trailer for the film here. The things they can do with art and film is unbelievable. I can’t wait to see the completed film.

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An Interesting Explanation of Van Gogh’s Starry Night

Posted in Little Known Facts, tagged Starry Night, Van Gogh on November 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Van Gogh’s Starry Night

There are so many thoughts and explanations on why so many people are drawn to Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Here is really interesting one. Be sure to when you click this link to read it that you also watch the short video explanation. Fascinating!

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Another Interesting Theory on Van Gogh

Posted in Little Known Facts, tagged Theory on Van Gogh's Death, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh on November 6, 2015| 1 Comment »

Our fascination with Vincent Van Gogh will never end. We love his work and are always interested to read new ideas and theories surrounding his life and work. Here’s the latest concerning clues to his suicide.

“Dutch chemical engineer Rene van Slooten came up with the hypothesis this year after watching a television documentary about the artist. A Dutch actor was talking about a painting of Van Gogh’s house in Arles and noted that the street had been broken up because Van Gogh was having gas lighting installed. “That’s when the alarm bells started going off for me,” Van Slooten recalls.” Click here and read the story in The Daily Beast.

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Starry Night Revisted

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, Landscape, Starry Night, Van Gogh, Van Gogh's Starry Night on October 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »

I am working with a delightful group of international students. They love painting and are so enthusiastic about it. Over the last three weeks they produced these wonderful paintings of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, a painting that they requested to do. Can’t wait to see what they do next!

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Van Gogh in NYC and at Home

Posted in daily painter, Flowers, Travel, tagged Van Gogh, Van Gogh flowers on October 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Van Gogh’s Irises

Van Gogh’s Oleanders

Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Here is my finished version of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers from our Famous Painters Paint Party series last week.

The others are Van Gogh’s floral paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from my visit last week.

Enjoy!

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Famous Painters Paint Party Successful!

Posted in Flowers, Paint Party, tagged Famous Painters Party, sunflowers, Van Gogh, Van Gogh Sunflowers on September 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Famous Painters Party – Van Gogh Sunflowers

The second Famous Painters Paint Party last night had us painting Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. And boy did they turn out GREAT! We all had such a fun time and these ladies went home with fabulous paintings. The next Famous Painter Party is October 27th. We’ll announce the painting we will do in a few days. To see last month’s party click here.

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Belated Happy Birthday Vincent!

Posted in Little Known Facts, tagged Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh on March 31, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Van Gogh, Coquelicots et papillons, 1890

Yesterday was the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh in 1853. I didn’t want to let the day pass without recognizing him. While he never achieved fame during his lifetime for his paintings, now almost everyone recognizes his works…and they are quite amazing. Click on this link to enjoy his many paintings.

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$62 Million Van Gogh Masterpiece

Posted in Little Known Facts, tagged Sotheby's, Van Gogh on November 6, 2014| 4 Comments »

Sotheby’s in New York

A Van Gogh floral masterpiece went for almost $62 million this week to a Chinese film mogul. Read more about it here.

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Art Campers & Van Gogh

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Van Gogh on August 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday we ended this session of Art Camp with a large Van Gogh painting. And what a terrific job these artists did on this one! Van Gogh’s “The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles at Night” has lots of colors and angles and these kid’s paintings are outstanding. Great, great job!!!