Lullaby
calligraphy ink and pastel on paper
Available for sale asGreeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints and Framed Prints
Lullaby
calligraphy ink and pastel on paper
Available for sale asGreeting Cards, Matted Prints, Laminated Prints, Mounted Prints, Canvas Prints and Framed Prints
Max Gatrell
Wow! this is an amazing illustration of the horrors of confinement. What was his crime, or are his bars self inflicted?
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April Mansilla replied
thank you Max ..my thoughs self inflicted and someone else….the crime of trust maybe?
aglaia b
wow, very powerful, emotive work april.
it reminds me of a photograph i once took of my sister when she was very unhappy.
;-) xox
April Mansilla replied
thank you Aglaia for the compliment …..and I hope your sister has happiness now:) xxxooo
Peter Evans
I think someone should visit the Chiropractor :-)
Brilliant emotive work April!!
April Mansilla replied
thank you Peter:)!! yes i think so …maybe i will book at the same time after hours of hunching over paintings :)
AtaAlishahi
ohh wow april, this is really beautiful work :)
April Mansilla replied
thank you Ata:)
Peter Evans
lol yeah…same for spending hours looking up at the monitor :-)
April Mansilla replied
lol yeah me too:)
Nvision Ink
oooOO! This is really good! I like the use of one color and the writing on the wall. Makes me wonder what it reads…
April Mansilla replied
thank so much Neil!
husha a bye baby in the tree top ….and so on …and then backwards on the joining wall
ieneke jansen
You have always said so much in your pieces April
-without saying a word! I love the red & the fact that everything else is black and white. I “feel” this one very much…you are something else Girl!!! You never cease to amaze me…thank you for being exactly who you are & sharing yourself with the world :)April Mansilla replied
thank you dear Ieneke:) you always brighen my days with your word …how do you do that?:) I keep hoping to create works that will be question …make one feel …I thank you for being able to see what I am doing …xxxxx
Mariam Muradian
This piece, along with all your work, grabs my insides down deep!
The black & white, the thin and thick lines, and the script….powerful! Then the red floor! Whoa!
How many times have we had to “rock ourselves”, self-talk ourselves out of that corner in our mind?
Everything gets all balled up….then how are we going to rewrite and play out that script when “I am the only person playing the role of self”?
You have brilliantly depicted the head banging personal questions, April.
I love you.
XOXO
Mariam
April Mansilla replied
thank you Mariam as always your words are full of insperation life and make me question which I adore !! I thank you for getting what I do :) much love to you as well xxxooo
and that is a wonderful idea ….a pic of healing ? a journey to get out of the corner? thank you for inspiring me !!
Mariam Muradian
“When the bough breaks….” the lullaby cannot blame selves or others, it just has to sing on about the fall….I would love and be curious to see a counter/resolve piece to this one…..what do you think?
Redtempa
Beautiful and disturbing… another great piece of work April
April Mansilla replied
thank you so very much!!
MrPJ
Wow April, after reading leneke and Mariam’s beautiful comments, what more can be said, I’ll just sit back in my corner and admire your art :)
April Mansilla replied
yes they are dear souls …Ieneke is one of my most treasured friends:) thank you Peter for the support!
mago
greate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April Mansilla replied
thank you so much!
Max Gatrell
The crime of trust, what an offence. To either trust too much or not enough, equally wrong in many eyes ;)
M
April Mansilla replied
yes seems to be no happy medium:)
Max Gatrell
Alas, though I doubt i’d have it any other way ;)
M
RMonroe
I like this, it speaks to me. The simplicity of it says so much:)
RMonroe
I like this, it speaks to me. The simplicity of it says so much:)
April Mansilla replied
thank you Robin …veryy appreciated!
Midori Furze
I loooooooooove it!
April Mansilla replied
thank you Love the comment!!
RSart
i love the abstract figure and all the writing on the wall, april, this piece make my body want to crul in agony. powerful piece
April Mansilla replied
thank you so much just started showing my doodles as I call these guys …when the hands need to keep busy and the mind needs to keep still:)
alanalanalan
your painting is..,,,, Fantastic!...Beautiful work..great .very well done….,,,,i liked it…...take care of yourself.have agood time….alan
April Mansilla replied
thank you such great complimets Alan!
Cameron Gray
Intense! very nice work.
April Mansilla replied
thank you so much Cameron!
justjason
Very powerful work….Fantastic!!
Dillon Langlands
very nice work
April Mansilla replied
thank you Dillon
markgb
This is amazing April!
April Mansilla replied
thank you Mark!!!
valzart
April Mansilla replied
many thanks Val!!!!!
Kirbo
exclusively
April Mansilla replied
thanks…
Teeze
Fantastic. Awesome work.
April Mansilla replied
thank you Teeze!!
Birgitta
April, you’ve “painted” how I feel so much.
I think you struck a raw nerve with us all!
We can all relate to this..
beautiful. sad. thought provoking and so well done.
April Mansilla replied
oh Birgitta…what a compliment …to paint what one feels…thank you
Keiran Lusk
Hauntingly beautiful. So raw and heartachingly reflective of how many of us feel sometimes. I like this very much :-)
April Mansilla replied
thank you Keiran for the honest and beautiful comment!!!:)
Colleen Milburn
You know, April, you are sometimes very capable of leaving me speechless – except for one word – ‘YOUR-ART-IS-EXTRAORDINARY’ – is that one word?! :-)
April Mansilla replied
wow !!thank you Colleen …it is now:) LOL