Surface Gallery

sketch for painting
Lu
- first work of 2013

Signs & Signals
paper cutout & watercolour mounted on board.
Shanon Playford 2011

JANUARY FUN DAYS 2013! on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/shanon.playford.art

THE WHOLE MONTH OF JANUARY!

(*JANUARY FUN DAYS! is an annual event here at SPA. Most days this month, I’ll post some kind of art related query. You’ll receive one Painting Point per day. If you reply/comment on all the posts (right or wrong, serious or not) you’ll receive 30 PP, which you can put towards my art/art prizes (prints, small paper originals, discounts off larger works). There will be bonus points! & If you don’t care about points, you can answer the questions anyway. & If you answer at least one ‘magic’ question, you will be entered to win the JFD! grand prize! (yet to be determined, a painting of some kind, perhaps? ). The idea is to hear from you. …& to have fun, & maybe learn something about art, or you, or well, pretty much anything.)

Ready? Okay! Let’s play!

Painting Points expire in October of the same year of issue.

& if not enough people want to play, well, then I won’t either.

this painting is by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Of Corset Is
- paper, paint & ribbon -
8” X 8” Big 300 2012 - S.Playford

Away -
8” X 8”
3000 X 300

Yellow boots, oil on panel, from the xx series- 2009 (sold)

FALL BACK!

Daylight Saving Time (United States) began Sunday, March 11, 2012, 2:00am, and ends Sunday, November 4, 2012, 2:00am.Except Arizona and Hawaii. Move your clocks ahead 1 hour in spring and back 1 hour in fall (“Spring forward, fall back”).

Happy Halloween!

an oldy, but a goodie - Candlesnuffer oil on panel 1999?

Happy Birthday Pablo Picasso!
(Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso)

What I love about most about Picasso, is his endless & unstoppable playfulness, curiosity & variety.

Growing up we had several Picasso (prints) hanging in our house. I grew up thinking that’s what art looked like. Well, that & Rembrandt. The painting on the right in this photo, is one of my all-time personal favorites.

If you have a moment today, just take a peek at his vast & varied output. There are 1136 images here:

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/pablo-picasso

IMAGINATION RULES THE WORLD

Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne is an 1806 portrait of Napoleon I of France in his coronation costume, painted by the French painter Ingres.

It shows Napoleon as emperor, in the costume he wore for his coronation, seated on a circular-backed throne with armrests adorned with ivory balls. In his right hand he holds the sceptre of Charlemagne and in his left the hand of justice. On his head is a golden laurel-wreath. He also wears an ermine hood under the great collar of the Légion d’honneur, a gold-embroidered satin tunic and an ermine-lined purple velvet cloak decorated with gold bees. The coronation sword is in its scabbard and held up by a silk scarf. The subject wears white shoes embroidered in gold and resting on a cushion. The carpet under the throne displays an imperial eagle. The signature INGRES P ^xit is in the bottom left, and ANNO 1806 in the bottom right.

Scholar Simon Abrahams has suggested that Ingres never intended the portrait to be [an accurate portrayal of Napoleon but as “the Napoleon of painting.” That was a phrase that Ingres himself used about his best disciple, Theodore Chasseriau.

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