I AM NOT AN ARTIST I AM JUST A MAN WHO PAINTS.L.S.LOWRY).... I have been painting as an amateur artist on and off for many years.I have over the years developed a very unusual use of colour and content, which I now know from experience appeal to many people, Including individual collectors and dealers. Newcastle upon Tyne England has been a hotbed of heavy Industry since the beginning of the industrial revolution, most of which has now gone forever. A lot of my paintings are recollections of youthful images of the period, late 1940s and 1950s. They are inspired by local naïve and primitive pitmen artists I am also an admirer of L.S.LOWRY, and the great American artist EDWARD HOPPER .AND GRANMA MOSES among others. All images are copyright of Peter McPartlin, All Rights Reserved Any prints are for private, non commercial use. You may not copy or redistribute these images without my written permission
Arles, France / original Kodak negative scanned via Nikon CoollScan
Narrow street in Old Town Arles, France
My son in our Art deco hotel room – 2005
Taken from the inside of Turn 1 of Atlantic Motorsport Park in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Both rider and bike survived – albeit the rider with a broken arm and the bike requiring surgical transplants of a new tank and several pieces of body moulding
Starry Night over the Rhone (September 1888) is one of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings of Arles at night; I Did my homage / version 24 by 36 inches on stretched canvas in Acrylic ..done with my own sensibilities while keeping the original painting very much in my thoughts..I Hold Vincent in the highest esteem , go to you tube and listen to ” Starry Starry night ” sometime.. What a moving song an lyrics. *my original painting is for sale too just inquire , .this work was featured in ImageWriting (2/24) and also in the Lets Pay homage & again in the Feature fraternity / Plus featured in .. Color Me A Rainbow , it was just voted in the Top Ten in the Best of FEATURED Blue Works-INVITE ONLY its very kind of you all to comment so wonderfully on this painting my deepest thanks.. it has been viewed 2, 725 times so far Nov 19, 2009 Your comments highly valued and respected . / / / Here’s the wonderful moving Lyrics to Don Mcleans song ..... / Starry, starry night. / Paint your palette blue and grey, / Look out on a summer’s day, / With eyes that know the darkness in my soul. / Shadows on the hills, / Sketch the trees and the daffodils, / Catch the breeze and the winter chills, / In colors on the snowy linen land. Now I understand what you tried to say to me, / How you suffered for your sanity, / How you tried to set them free. / They would not listen, they did not know how. / Perhaps they’ll listen now. Starry, starry night. / Flaming flowers that brightly blaze, / Swirling clouds in violet haze, / Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue. / Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain, / Weathered faces lined in pain, / Are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand. Now I understand what you tried to say to me, / How you suffered for your sanity, / How you tried to set them free. / They would not listen, they did not know how. / Perhaps they’ll listen now. For they could not love you, / But still your love was true. / And when no hope was left in sight / On that starry, starry night, / You took your life, as lovers often do. / But I could have told you, Vincent, / This world was never meant for one / As beautiful as you. Starry, starry night. / Portraits hung in empty halls, / Frameless head on nameless walls, / With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget. / Like the strangers that you’ve met, / The ragged men in the ragged clothes, / The silver thorn of bloody rose, / Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow. Now I think I know what you tried to say to me, / How you suffered for your sanity, / How you tried to set them free. / They would not listen, they’re not listening still. / Perhaps they never will...
Title: Rebels Blood / Artist: Ronald Eller / Medium: Painting – Digital Art & Oil Painting / Price: $350.00 / Dimensions: 30.000×40.000 inches Abstract Expressionism is a descriptor used to describe an American post–World War II art movement that achieved worldwide influence. It was the first distinctive American Art Movement to achieve worldwide acclaim. It put New York City at the center of the art world, a role held by Paris for Centuries. However, the label “Abstract Expressionism” was first applied to describe works created by Wassily Kandinsky in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm. It was used to describe German Expressionism and the beginning of a significant trend where artists sought to express themselves from an emotional plane of intensity and anti figurative aesthetics. The Influence of the pre war European schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus and Synthetic Cubism was the direct precursor to the New York group of abstract Expressionists. The New York School were noted for their rebellious and highly idiosyncratic styles and nihilistic philosophies which influenced the beat generation. The beat generation of the fifties was the active forerunner of the hip or hippy movement and the Avant-Garde of the 60’s, 70’s. It is still very much alive as a source of influences from the vast explorations of Dada, Surrealism, Pop Art, and Graffiti as a legitimate art form. The musical expansion starting in the sixties of Rock and Roll, Jazz, and Classical Music became the voice of poetry and social revolution. The artistic rebellion was so vast and expressive the movement of abstract expressionism here in the United States and around the world are barely beginning to be understood. The power and influences of a movement that is still in the process of defining itself cannot be denied. The art of the 60’s and 70’s spurned on the movement of revolution and change so profound we have as yet to understand the impact which has lead to racial, sexual and cultural power shifts forever changing how governments rule. The radical shift in the paradigm of religious philosophies have literally and totally restructured the cultures of the world as we know it. The impact of the Abstract Expressionist Movement on the world cannot be minimized. We are still reeling from the impact. When Blues influenced Rock Concerts are being played at the Wu Miao Temple in old Dali in China one cannot underestimate the power of the Abstract Expressionist Movement which literally spawned all the cultural shifts we are now experiencing. This and the profound effect of advancing technology has brought us to place we are at today. From the richly decorated walls of dark caves at Lascaux France, to the heart of a rebellious artist, Saint Vincent van Gogh, Canonized by art itself, who’s style brought us paint of fully crafted strokes and swirls. Forever, a creation from god. Perfectly pure, Not in all of mankind’s existence has there ever been another so profound, so solitary, so noteworthy. Aside from Jesus Christ there never has been one so misunderstood. Uniquely pre-paired at Arles France. It was here Matisse Modigliani And Picasso drank their wine, toasted their fame and danced their dance. In the long shadow there meager presence could only have disappeared into the starry night. God bless Vincent and the rebels one and all, Their allegiance was centered to be true, of pure resolve their anthems sang as their brush of color upon the liberty bell rang, And their declaration came one after another, Pollack, Warhol, Gottlieb, Kline, Motherwell, de Kooning, De Niro, Diebenkorn, Hartigan, Reinhardt, Rothko, Yamamoto by the rebels blood our lives and culture was made. To always seek the truth as told through the pain of change and the rebels duty rearranged color and form and thought. It begins first with the image on the wall. From here the poet writes and the profit speaks and the music sings and change upon the winds blow. This is how it’s done. This is how it must go.
Title: Cross Pollination / Artist: Ronald Eller / Medium: Painting – Digital Art & Oil Painting / Price: $2,650.00 / Dimensions: 30.000×40.000 From the richly decorated walls of dark caves at Lascaux France, to the heart of a rebellious artist, a Saint, Vincent van Gogh, Canonized by art itself, who’s style brought us paint of fully crafted strokes and swirls. / Forever, a creation from god. Perfectly pure, Not in all of mankind’s existence has there ever been another so profound, so solitary, so noteworthy. Aside from Jesus Christ there never has been one so misunderstood. Uniquely pre-paired at Arles France. It was here Matisse Modigliani And Picasso drank their wine, toasted their fame and danced their dance. In the long shadow there meager presence could only have disappeared into the starry night. God bless Vincent and the rebels one and all, Their allegiance was centered to be true, of pure resolve their anthems sang as their brush of color upon the liberty bell rang, And their declaration came one after another, Pollack, Warhol, Gottlieb, Kline, Motherwell, de Kooning, De Niro, Diebenkorn, Hartigan, Reinhardt, Rothko, Yamamoto by the rebels blood our lives and culture was made. To always seek the truth as told through the pain of change and the rebels duty rearranged color and form and thought. It begins first with the image on the wall. From here the poet writes and the profit speaks and the music sings and change upon the winds blow. This is how it’s done. This is how it must go._
Title: The Poet Writes / Artist: Ronald Eller / Medium: Painting – Digital Art & Oil Painting / Price: $2,400.00 / Dimensions: 30.000×40.000 inches From the richly decorated walls of dark caves at Lascaux France, to the heart of a rebellious artist, a Saint, Vincent van Gogh, Canonized by art itself, who’s style brought us paint of fully crafted strokes and swirls. / Forever, a creation from god. Perfectly pure, Not in all of mankind’s existence has there ever been another so profound, so solitary, so noteworthy. Aside from Jesus Christ there never has been one so misunderstood. Uniquely pre-paired at Arles France. It was here Matisse Modigliani And Picasso drank their wine, toasted their fame and danced their dance. In the long shadow there meager presence could only have disappeared into the starry night. God bless Vincent and the rebels one and all, Their allegiance was centered to be true, of pure resolve their anthems sang as their brush of color upon the liberty bell rang, And their declaration came one after another, Pollack, Warhol, Gottlieb, Kline, Motherwell, de Kooning, De Niro, Diebenkorn, Hartigan, Reinhardt, Rothko, Yamamoto by the rebels blood our lives and culture was made. To always seek the truth as told through the pain of change and the rebels duty rearranged color and form and thought. It begins first with the image on the wall. From here the poet writes and the profit speaks and the music sings and change upon the winds blow. This is how it’s done. This is how it must go._
Title: Vast Explorations / Artist: Ronald Eller / Medium: Painting – Digital Art & Oil Painting / Price: $2,600.00 / Dimensions: 30.000×40.000 From the richly decorated walls of dark caves at Lascaux France, to the heart of a rebellious artist, a Saint, Vincent van Gogh, Canonized by art itself, who’s style brought us paint of fully crafted strokes and swirls. / Forever, a creation from god. Perfectly pure, Not in all of mankind’s existence has there ever been another so profound, so solitary, so noteworthy. Aside from Jesus Christ there never has been one so misunderstood. Uniquely pre-paired at Arles France. It was here Matisse Modigliani And Picasso drank their wine, toasted their fame and danced their dance. In the long shadow there meager presence could only have disappeared into the starry night. God bless Vincent and the rebels one and all, Their allegiance was centered to be true, of pure resolve their anthems sang as their brush of color upon the liberty bell rang, And their declaration came one after another, Pollack, Warhol, Gottlieb, Kline, Motherwell, de Kooning, De Niro, Diebenkorn, Hartigan, Reinhardt, Rothko, Yamamoto by the rebels blood our lives and culture was made. To always seek the truth as told through the pain of change and the rebels duty rearranged color and form and thought. It begins first with the image on the wall. From here the poet writes and the profit speaks and the music sings and change upon the winds blow. This is how it’s done. This is how it must go._
In a little house right opposite the Roman Arena in Arles, and only a few steps away from where the famous “Maison Jaune” – the yellow-fronted house where Vincent Van Gogh lived whilst in Arles once stood, is a wonderful recreation of Vincent Van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles. / This is where he painted many remarkable pictures and where he produced a painting of the actual room in October 1888. / The painting “Vincent’s Bedroom In Arles” is one of his most popular and one of his own personal favourites. / We know a great deal about this painting and the artist’s own feelings as he was so pleased with it he described it in great length to his family in 13 letters. / In a letter to his brother Theo he wrote ”......simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and giving by it’s simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive of rest, or of sleep in general. In a word, looking at the picture ought to rest the brain, or rather the imagination.” / Van Gogh actually produced 5 versions, 3 oil paintings and two sketches, the first of the oils is considered to be the most accomplished with it’s vivid colours and elaborate technique.It currently hangs in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. / Yellow was Van Gogh’s favourite colour throughout his Arles and Saint-Remy period. / He described the colour of his bed as the yellow of butter. / The recreation of Van Gogh’s bedroom was a painstaking attempt to recreate the exact setting and particular atmosphere of the room. Every little detail has been carefully reproduced. The whole idea is to recreate the feeling and to fuel the emotion and they have succeeded beyond that, it is an absolutely unique and never forgotten experience to be in Vincent’s Bedroom In Arles. Featured in Nirvana group, RedBubble, May 2009
A corner of Vincent Van Gogh’s recreated bedroom in Arles, France. / For more information on this please read the text accompanying my photo ” Visit Vincent’s Bedroom In Arles” Featured in European Everyday Life group, RedBubble, July 2009
Vincent Van Gogh painted his famous “Vincent’s Bedroom In Arles” in his bedroom where he created many other remarkable paintings. / I took this photo in the wonderful recreation of his bedroom on the first floor of a small house called simply “La Chambre de Vincent van Gogh”, directly across the road from the Arles Roman Arena in Arles, France. / He referred to this painting as being of ”.....simply my bedroom…...”.
A quaint and pretty entrance to a house on a small street near the Roman arena in Arles, France. Featured in Cottage Style group, RedBubble, May 2009 Featured in French Architecture group, RedBubble, October 2009
The bridge made famous by the ‘Van Gogh’ Painting. / ‘Le Pont De Langlois aux Lavandieres’ / HDR, 3 bracketed hand held shots, merged in Photomatrix. / Rather late in the day and the light while bright, was low, so not ideal, but the HDR brought out the detail quite well. While we felt like we had been taken back in time, this was short lived, by some locals haring up in their car, over the newer bridge, where this shot was taken from. (Probably sick of all the tourist near their home).
© 2009 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved ~~ An hommage to van Gogh: / An imaginary episode showing the results of a tomato picking venture with Gauguin, who had joined van Gogh in Arles in 1886. However, in 1888, after chasing Gauguin with an open razor and then slicing off part of his own ear, van Gogh was institutionalized and who knows whatever happened to the tomatoes? Thanks to friend, artisan and gardener Jerry Carlin for the photograph of his tomato crop in his homemade dehydrator, which inspired this painting.
A character design pin-up with digital color, I like how this turned out.
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPH / ARLES, FRANCE / 2009
“Starry Night over the Rhone / My Version of Vincent van Gogh’s painting of Arles at night was just featured in Color Me a Rainbow … I Th…
“Starry Night over the Rhone / My Version of Vincent van Gogh’s painting of Arles at night was just featured in Color Me a Rainbow … I Thank the gracious host Taylor Sawyer for sending me this great news and the other fine hosts very much for this fine honor , its greatly appreciated
“Starry Night over the Rhone / My Version of Vincent van Gogh’s painting of Arles at night was just featured in Color Me a Rainbow … I Th…
“Starry Night over the Rhone / My Version of Vincent van Gogh’s painting of Arles at night was just featured in Color Me a Rainbow … I Thank the gracious host Taylor Sawyer for sending me this great news and the other fine hosts very much for this fine honor , its greatly appreciated*
Oil on Canvas
Original Photo taken in Arles, France. / Combination of 2 images, the boy was actually sitting closer to the opening of the lane way and the background is further into the laneway, it had a bit more interest with the colours and trees. Editing….. / Increased colour saturation / Cutout, 18% overlay / Fractalius Dark 50% overlay / Fractalius Light 50% overlay / Watercolour filter in Olympus Master / Ink Outline 50% overlay / For what it is worth, as it can no longer be seen, the background was infact an HDR with 3 hand held exposures. Death by editing??? still a bit of fun and I like the result and that is what counts!
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