Donna & 'Rembrandt boys'.

Artist: Ozcloggie
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Donna & 'Rembrandt boys'.

I submitted this painting in the Inspired by Rembrandt competition, in the category of Group painting (Like the Nightwatch). The Inspired by Rembrandt competition was held, in 2006, to celebrate Rembrandt’s birthday, 400 years earlier.

My painting was based on a photo which I had taken of this girl, while she was sitting beside me in the playground (while I was on playground duty). It was in a school in the Liverpool area of Sydney.
The boys were, of course copied from a painting by Rembrandt, the famous Dutch artist.
Now to be featured in my Remembering exhibition, to celebrate my 65th birthday, at the Tap Gallery, Palmer Street, Darlinghurst, 6-12 October, 2008.

Donna & 'Rembrandt boys'. belongs to the following groups:

Childhood, Children-The Power of Raw Emotion , Dutch Touch, Happy Haven, Oil Painting and Realist Traditional Art

Ruth Palmer, about 1 year ago

Outstanding work!
Anselmo Pelembe, about 1 year ago

wow, nice work
Carlo Cesar Ro..., about 1 year ago

Great profile! Your a great painter!
Antanas, 11 months ago

Great work!
Alessandro Pinto, 11 months ago

beautiful work ! great atmosphere given by the two boy in the background.. so well composed as well !
michael51, 10 months ago

excellent work beautiful
bluerabbit, 10 months ago

Wonderful painting!
Jeff Burns, 10 months ago

stunning work
Eyal Nahmias, 10 months ago

Beautiful artwork. excellent color, comp and expression. The resemblance to the original is excellent.
Sharon Perrett, 10 months ago

Wow beautiful work, did you win the competition?
CanDuCreations, 10 months ago

Outstanding work
Birgitta, 10 months ago

Oh wow…you were able to capture her likeness so well!
I marvel at your ability to create such emotion, so humanlike..living
it seems..from paint. !
Antoine Dagobert, 10 months ago

Very beautifully done… really great!
Antoine Dagobert, 10 months ago

Very beautifully done… really great!
coffeetea, 10 months ago

beautiful painting !
stephen jones, 9 months ago

Wish I could draw like this. great work.
madvlad, 9 months ago

well done,can,t miss,with a childs innocence
Alyson Pearson, 9 months ago

wow, great painting
dmeijden, 9 months ago

Beautiful composition, Intriging brushwork. Keep on clogging the painters klompendans
Ellen, 9 months ago

How beautiful!
PhotoAmbiance, 8 months ago

Wow, this is fabulous! Nice how you mixed the past and precence.
Michael Gatch, 8 months ago

awesome!
Mariaan Krog, 7 months ago

Brilliant work done here. Love the modern look mixed with the Rembrandt style~
Mayra Pau, 7 months ago

Great work. Did you used pastel?
You are a great artist.
Jeff Burns, 6 months ago

wonderfully done
Ozcloggie in reply to Mayra Pau’s comment, 6 months ago

Thanks Mayra. I’m having great fun with oils.
Ozcloggie in reply to Jeff Burns’s comment, 6 months ago

Thanks, Jeff. Your avatar is so familiar by now. I see it so often. Makes it really feel like a community.
melodious, 6 months ago

i think this is my favourite of your works! such a wonderful comment on the timelessness of human emotion… the way you have really captured the girls state of mind is wonderful!
itsallgoodamanda, 6 months ago

very fine work my friend
Ozcloggie in reply to itsallgoodamanda’s comment, 6 months ago

Enjoyed visiting your art, here, on Redbubble. Seems a funny thought that you’re up this early too, here, in a much cooler Sydney.
Thanks for putting Donna and the boys (Not really her name.), among your favourites.
Steven Sandner, 6 months ago

Brilliant work! love the colors and the framing!
Gaurav Dhup, 6 months ago

beautiful!
Ozcloggie in reply to Gaurav Dhup’s comment, 6 months ago

Thank you. It is a favourite painting. I got so excited about that Rambrandt competition. It certainly made me paint!!
Rosina Lamberti, 5 months ago

Brilliant work
Kimberlolly, 3 months ago

Beautiful! Great work!!
aglaia b, 2 months ago

this is gorgeous, your work is really lovely! ;-) xox
Ozcloggie in reply to aglaia b’s comment, 2 months ago

Thank you. There was a woman being interviewed on TV here, not so long ago, surrounded by her paintings and she said that she didn’t want to part with any of them.
I can so understand that. I’m painting these for me, for remembering good times.
Whenever people see my work for the first time, they almost always ask: Sold any?
No. Thank goodness.
(Although…..........my savings won’t last forever!)
chasingsooz, 2 months ago

You are a truly wonderful artit. Have you started planning a local exhibition yet?
Ozcloggie, 2 months ago

Day before yeserday I took a very close friend of my late mother, to visit my father, at the retirement village. She is now the third (?) person, whom I’ve asked to come into the house, where I have hung the framed pictures in the hallway and the lounge-room and filled a small bedroom with them.
Once again the genuine reaction was like yours, here. Something like, knowing that I do these things, but suddenly seeing how much of it there is.
But, once again, it was like me introducing my babies. There is a story attached to just about all of them and particularly in the case of this lady, she understood a part f it.
She worked with my mother a number of years and misses her a lot. So when I explained about those paintings of the book character, Remi, from Alleen Op de Wereld (Sans Famille), by Hector Malot, it had extra meaning. (My mother read me that book several times over, when I was very young.)
When the topic of my paintings comes up, I get the question: Have you sold any? But it’s hard to explain that my stories about why I did each painting needs to go with them.
Am going to visit my father, together with my son and my daughter again, this weekend. I expect that the conversation, on the way, will once again include: Where is a good local café or something similar, where they could be displayed?
Gili Orr, about 1 month ago

Very expressive! I also like the combination of Rembrandt’s time and ours.
barnsis, 25 days ago

Amazing feeling in this love it.
Ozcloggie in reply to barnsis’s comment, 24 days ago

Thank you, Barnsis. Was a fun time. Had just got going, attending an art class, at Hazelhurst Art and Community Centre, Gymea, here, in Southern Sydney, when I painted this for th Inspired by Rembrandt competition.
midnightdreamer, 5 days ago

Stunning work of art, a perfectly fine portrait! Bravo!
Peace,
Leah ♥
Ozcloggie in reply to midnightdreamer’s comment, 5 days ago

Thank you. When I gave it that title I had the wrong name. Mixed her (name) up with a girl who had been in my class, at another school, many years earlier. (Similar.)
37 years x an average of say, 35 per class is many names to remember. :) Thanks again!!
Am looking forward to hanging her, in a few hours’ time!! She’s all wrapped up, in my car, under a towel or a sheet. (I hope they behave themselves!!)