Shawl Wall Art
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Acrylic Painting on Canvas Original sold $600 / [re HTA ]All my art here has been done while ill and all has been done trying to find the energy to stand up. and function…...but…...can’t lie aown and give in…. /
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Tibetan shawls
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A young girl from the town of Agra, India.
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This painting is a miniature and is watercolour on paper Thank you all again for the kind comments, faves and watches. I really do appreciate them. See more of Freda’s works: / Boats / City / Fractals / Stillife / Figures / Landscape Freda’s website
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Untouched, cross-processed photograph.
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christmas illustration
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Pastel on Sanded Paper – (Colourfix Burgundy) 70cm x 50cm Done from life during a life drawing group Featured in the ‘Contemporary Pastel Painters’ group – March 2009 / Finished in the Top 10 of the Drawn to Her challenge in the Painted Ladies group – July 2009 / 2nd place in the Red Challenge in Hand painted or Drawn Art of Happiness and Joy – Sept 2009 / 2nd place in the Red Red Red Challenge in the Contemporary Pastel Painters group – Dec 2009 / Featured in Contemporary Pastel Painters – Dec 2009
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the moon is rising high … / let’s go out and feel the night … / I want see you dance again under the harvest moon ... Work done in PaintShopPro and Gimp. Best viewed large. Ksq 08 0017 081109 8
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the days grow longer / summer is but a dream / and I miss you even more than before / when autumn leaves begin to fall .. Work done in PaintShopPro and Gimp. Best viewed large. Ksq 08 0018 081111 8
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welcome .. come on in and have a seat … chilly night out, yes? ... I started a log in the fireplace .. should warm us up a bit … anything to drink? ... please be comfortable … I rarely get company nowadays … people are beginning to think I’m becoming a recluse .. lol … I think they just don’t like coming out here .. too far off the beaten path …..... a little music? good … ah let’s see … how about Sergei Rachmaninoff playing his 2nd piano concerto in c minor ... so very nice for a night like this …. oh it’s his recording with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra … think it was directed by Leopold Stokowski … you remember him don’t you? he was oh how would you say .. oh so theatrical and bit of a renegade … I so loved to watch him wave his hands around lol … and I so love this concerto … I choose it on purpose .. you must know that .. yes? ah yes … yes it was .. we went together .. oh what an elegant pair we made .. or so we thought lol …. ah it seems just like yesterday .. the years certainly have flown by …. do you remember how when we met Sergei after the concert .. how he went on and on about feeling and creating from the heart? he was so passionate about his work … not like Prokofiev … remember what Sergei said of Prokofiev? lol … he does not exalt .. he broods … lol ….... all that and with that delightful Russian accent ….... what a night that was ….. where did we go after that? I can’t seem to remember …. we did? over to Dottie’s? oh yes now I remember … that god awful boring party of hers … bunch of stuffed shirts .. lol … Mr. and Mrs. Roger Higgersfeld …. oh my yes I remember now .. the old baffoon … keep talking on and on and on about politics and to the point that even Sir Jeffrey was beginning to yawn … wonder what ever happened to him … last I heard he was off to Bavaria or some such place … another drink? could you put another log on the fire for me please … it is quite chilly out tonite …. here’s your drink, deary … ah yes that really was a great concert … yes listening to it does bring back so many memories …. listen … the theme is played here again … there is a yearning yes? ... oh yes I so agree .. there is hope too … and when all else fails there is always hope … / . / — / . / suggest if you’ve read this far that you read all the comments and my replies … you’ll find out what happened to Sir Jeffrey and what the shawl was designed after (big smile) .. and who know what other tidbits you might find (grin) / . / This is the another in a series of Shawls I’ve been working on with stories to go along with these images like this mini story (big smile) ... no critique asked for .. it’s not perfect but I hope it pleases you while you listen to the music and view my work (big smile) ps. youtube removed the original piece I used in the story … wish you could have heard it .. much better than the one I replaced it with … Rochmaninov plays with much more emotion … Work done in PaintShopPro and Gimp. Best viewed large. Featured Art – January 2009 – RedBubble Group: ImageWriting Ksq 08 0019 081111 8
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Two of my favorite songs to share Catch the Wind / Dust in the Wind Work done in Sterling2 and post work done in PaintShopPro and Gimp. Best viewed large SF 08 0017 K 081115 8
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Fractal done in Sterling2 with post work done in PaintShopPro and Gimp. Best viewed large. Featured Art – December 2008 – RedBubble Group: A Fractal Energy Passion SF 08 0005 081202 9
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fractal work done in Mind Boggling Fractals and post work in PaintShopPro and Gimp. Best viewed large. MBF 08 0003 081208 9
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couldn’t help it but I felt I just had to add this music for your enjoyment (big smile) work done in Mind Boggling Fractals MBF with post work done in PaintShopPro and Gimp. Best viewed large. Featured Art – 2008 – RedBubble Group: Music Inspired Art M.I.A. Featured Art – December 2008 – RedBubble Group: A Fractal Energy Passion MBF 08 0009 081224 9
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work done in Sterling2 with post work in PaintShopPro and Gimp. Best viewed large. SF 08 0007 081230 10
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Pastel on Canson paper (grey) / (Painted entirely with soft pastel and blended with fingers) / (2003 views 15/12/09) The reference for this painting was a black & white photo of a pastel by Janet Cumbrae-Stewart (1883 – 1960). She was my husband’s great aunt.. She studied at the National Gallery School under Fred McCubbin and L. Bernard Hall, before winning a scholarship to study at the Paris Salon. She spent most of her life in Europe and her paintings of nudes are much sought after. There is a very good article about her in the book ‘Australian Women Artists’ by Janine Burke, and a number of other books have been written about her. My husband can remember her painting his portrait when he was a child, and we have several of her paintings that have been handed down through the family. I did this painting quite a few years ago before I had access to a life drawing group! There was no shawl in the photo, so I pinned up a blue table cloth in my studio so I could get the effect of a shawl. Resourceful people sometimes aren’t we? Featured in the Woman Appreciation Group – February 2009 / Featured in the Contemporary Pastel Painters Group – March 2009 / Finished in the Top 10 of the Orange/Blue complementary colours challenge in the Painted Ladies group – June 2009 / Featured in the Best of group – Sept, 2009 / Featured in Feminine Intent – Sept 2009 / Featured in Mature Woman – Oct 2009 / Featured in Art at It’s Best – Nov 2009
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Oil portrait on gesso prepared board. / This lady was painted in cool colours depicting a cold winters day. I wanted to keep a romantic meloncholy atmosphere, creating a mood which causes us to reflect.
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Some say the modern day Pow Wow competition dance known as the Ladies Fancy Shawl Dance has its roots in a ceremonial dance called the Butterfly Dance. Here is a Cherokee account of how that dance came to be. I’ve been told the Shoshone have a similar story but I heard this version from Cherokee dancers in North Carolina. These dancers told me the Ladies Fancy Shawl Dance is a representation of the following Butterfly Legend: Many, many years ago when the Earth was still quite new, there was a beautiful butterfly who lost her mate in battle. To show her grief, she took off her beautiful wings and wrapped herself in a drab cocoon. In her sadness, she could not eat and she could not sleep and her relatives kept coming to her lodge to see if she was okay. Of course she wasn’t, but she didn’t want to be a burden on her people so she packed up her wings and her medicine bundle and took off on a long journey. She wandered about for many days and months, until finally she had gone all around the world. (To this day, butterflies go on long journeys, but that is another story.) On her journey she kept her eyes downcast and stepped on each stone she came to as she crossed fields and creeks and streams. Finally, one day as she was looking down, she happened to notice the stone beneath her feet, and it was so beautiful that it healed her sorrow. She then cast aside her cocoon, shook the dust from her wings, and donned them once more. She was so happy she began to dance to give thanks for another chance to begin her life anew. Then she went home and told The People about her long journey and how it had healed her. To this day,The People dance this dance as an expression of renewal, and to give thanks for new seasons, new life, and new beginnings. The shawl in the Fancy Shawl Dance represents the butterfly’s wings, the fancy steps and twirls represent the butterfly’s style of flight. This is another reason you will sometimes hear the Fancy Shawl Dance Competition referred to as ” the butterfly dance.” At Crow Fair in Montana, I was told another story about the Fancy Shawl Dance. While the Crow people also equate this dance form as an expression of re-emergence and renewal of life forces, they have a very different explanation of how it began. Their version goes like this: When the men returned from World War II, many of them were impressed with the dance troupes they had seen perform in Europe, and the colorful clothing the European dancers wore. A transformation began in the Men’s Traditional Dances as these men began to incorporate bright colors into their traditional outfits, and add aerobic movements into their interpretation of traditional dances. This evolved into a very strenuous dance competition category called the Fancy Dance. The young ladies of the time thought this looked like a lot of fun and they wanted to try it, too. Not to be out done by the men, some of these bold young women began to strap two bustles to their backs and compete in the Men’s Fancy Dance category at pow wows. Well, as you can imagine,this did not go over very well with the men, who were outraged at women who were forward enough to push their way into a MAN’s category of competition. (Remember, this was the 1940’s.) What was even worse, many times the women were beating the men in competition! This was considered pretty disgraceful from the men’s point of view, yet they also had to keep their women happy. Eventually, a council of Elders got together to ponder what they could do about this pitiful situation. After much thought and consideration,it was decided to give the ladies their own category of Fancy Dance, but something more regal and graceful, which was more suited to the expected behavior of women. The Elders decided that the Butterfly Dance would be suitable for adaptation to this new dance style for women. Thus, the Fancy Shawl Dance category was begun in modern competitions. By the way, the Crow Fair All Indian Rodeo and Pow Wow is coming up the third weekend in August at Crow Agency, Montana. If you only go to one pow wow in your lifetime, this is the one I would recommend. It’s the largest outdoor powwow in America, and there are over 1,000 tipis in the encampment, which has earned it the title of “Tipi Capital of the World.” Read more about: / Dance Regalia of the Fancy Shawl Dancer / How the Fancy Shawl Dance Competition is Judged / Crow Fair
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Cover Me The times are tough now, just getting tougher / This old world is rough, it’s just getting rougher / Cover me, come on baby, cover me / Well I’m looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me Promise me baby you won’t let them find us / Hold me in your arms, let’s let our love blind us / Cover me, shut the door and cover me / Well I’m looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me Outside’s the rain, the driving snow / I can hear the wild wind blowing / Turn out the light, bolt the door / I ain’t going out there no more This whole world is out there just trying to score / I’ve seen enough I don’t want to see any more, / Cover me, come on and cover me / I’m looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me / Looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me Bruce Springsteen
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