Donna & 'Rembrandt boys'.

Artist: Ozcloggie
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Donna & 'Rembrandt boys'.

( 1620 views, at this stage. )
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.
It then featured in my Remembering: an anthology , to celebrate my 65th birthday, at the Tap Gallery, Palmer Street, Darlinghurst, 6-12 October, 2008.

And now a great up-date:
Donna found a class-photo, on another website.
Made contact and is now aware of the painting!
33 years have passed since we sat on one of the metal benches, in the passage-way to the playground, at the back of that school.
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While digging through my albums:
A long time ago, I copied these stills, from my super8 movie films.
Donna would have been in Year 4 that year and might remember this.
It was the Open Day Concert for the parents.
My third grade pupils did a History of The Dance (e.g., Charleston!)
These 6th Grade girls were grateful for my permission to allow them to mime to an Elvis song!!
Lots of hip-swiveling and therefore a bit daring, ‘cause there was a lot of shakin’ going on.
It was my first year in an executive position and I was allowed to have my way. :)

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Ruth Palmer

Outstanding work!
Anselmo Pelembe

wow, nice work
Carlo Cesar Ro...

Great profile! Your a great painter!
Antanas

Great work!
Alessandro Pinto

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

excellent work beautiful
bluerabbit

Wonderful painting!
Jeff Burns

stunning work
Eyal Nahmias

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

Wow beautiful work, did you win the competition?
Ozcloggie replied

Sadly, no, Sharon. But I was so pleased, a few days ago to make contact with Donna. (It’s a lot less likely that I’ll make contact with the boys who posed for Master Rembrandt!!)
CanDuCreations

Outstanding work
Birgitta

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

Very beautifully done… really great!
Antoine Dagobert

Very beautifully done… really great!
coffeetea

beautiful painting !
stephen jones

Wish I could draw like this. great work.
madvlad

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

wow, great painting
dmeijden

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

How beautiful!
PhotoAmbiance

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

awesome!
Mariaan Krog A...

Brilliant work done here. Love the modern look mixed with the Rembrandt style~
pauito

Great work. Did you used pastel?
You are a great artist.
Ozcloggie replied

Thanks Mayra. I’m having great fun with oils.
Jeff Burns

wonderfully done
Ozcloggie replied

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

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

very fine work my friend
Ozcloggie replied

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

Brilliant work! love the colors and the framing!
Gaurav Dhup

beautiful!
Ozcloggie replied

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

Brilliant work
Kim Soltes

Beautiful! Great work!!
aglaia b

this is gorgeous, your work is really lovely! ;-) xox
Ozcloggie replied

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

You are a truly wonderful artit. Have you started planning a local exhibition yet?
Ozcloggie replied

FOUND HER!! She’s delighted.
Ozcloggie

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

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

Amazing feeling in this love it.
Ozcloggie replied

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

Stunning work of art, a perfectly fine portrait! Bravo!
Peace,
Leah ♥
Ozcloggie replied

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!!)
HeidiK

Wonderful work!
Ozcloggie replied

Thank you, Heidi. I shouldn’t call he Donna any more. Quite some time ago, I realised I’d mixed her up with another girl.
Ozcloggie

All is well. This girl’s name was Donna!!
Ozcloggie

Things happen in bursts, in bunches.
About once a year or so, I suddenly receive, via the www a little bit more information about my family tree, for example and then, for the next day or two I am working with that and searching for more.
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This time it is contact with this girl (as she was in 1975). It has set me off searching through the now ruined photo albums, boxes of slides, scrapbooks etc.
(I started ruining these albums, in 1996, when I first found the internet.)

I am finding that I was so much more involved with some schools than with others. Or, to put it another way, I can tell, by the slides and the other memorabilia, where I was having the most fun, being allowed to get involved in art, dance, music, soccer, etc., etc..
(There is another factor: After 1980, I was more keen to photograph my own children and to capture all the great things that they did (and do!).
drjones

wow…amazing work.
Ozcloggie replied

Thanks for that.
Tracey-Anne Pryke

fabulous….
Ozcloggie replied

Thanks, again, Tracyanne. This one is still, on top, or close to the top of my own favourites’ list.
Yool

A wonderful job done here…wow!!!
Scott d'Almeida

fabulous,
Ozcloggie replied

It’s the one that receives the most comments, Sott. Now if it only could have won the competition. :( It did get me started though….. Thanks for looking.
Woodie

Great Painting mate!
Cheers Neil
Memaa

WOW, and you are a beginner? This is gorgeous!
Ozcloggie replied

She and I have found each other, via the internet and I actually drove towards where she works. Decided to be modern. Looked up the route, on the internet, via toll-ways. That should have been better than the familiar route, with its umpteen turns and traffic lights etc.. Should have gone the old way. Got thoroughly lost!!
Aquarelle

Wow reading the text and admiring your art and journey has been a real pleasure this morning…..thank you so much for sharing and this is a brilliant painting!

Jean
Ozcloggie replied

Gosh, Jean. Thank you. (Now give me a push!! The blank canvases are waiting.) (LOL)
Aquarelle

Oh goodness,you said that to the wrong person. Or the right one! I am known for ” encouarging people to pick up the brush” so I will now sit here hopefully looking forward to seeing your next painting…and on that note I will work on one too! So we can BOTH encourage each other…...I’m smiling,hope you are too!

Jean.
John44

Absolute a big hit
Groetjes uit holland
John
Chris Baker

The spirit and mood you’ve captured here is overwhelming; stunning work :)
NautilusBlue

You have captured her spirit beautifully :)
Eve Parry

I know very little about painting, but I know what I like and this caught my eye as soon as it came up on the screen.
Ozcloggie replied

Thanks, Eve. One day I shall take her the painting.
Shanina Conway

Fantastic work Oz and what fabulous memories;)
Ozcloggie replied

Thank you, Shanina. It was such good fun. Would like to be doing it all over again. I know it wasn’t always easy but there was so much energy – all round!!