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Rosalind Nzinga

Rosalind Nzinga

www.rosalind-nzinga.com

USA / PAPER PAPER PAPERmaker,mixed-media artist! LIVE/WORK authentically! "..Artist has to be like a whale swimming with mouth wide open, absorbing everything.." RB ♥

Rosalind Nzinga

QUEEN Esther...

QUEEN Esther... / I was raised by royalty. A jewel of humanity. July 9, 2012, the Queen transitioned to her new life. This is my celebration board, some favorite pictures, of a life well lived.... and much loved...

myART / These images (to me) represent the best of what I have done. They inspire and inform where to next.....

EarlyMorning TEA

EarlyMorning TEA / ...my safe place for morning for longer than I can remember. At home with thoughts, journals and dreams; or visiting Mom with talks about so many things. It is the closest phrase to defining my life. So that is how we came to celebrate my big new decade Birthday Party October 2013. When we hosted some of my favorite women, and sent them home - far and near, with cups from my collection.... Still keepin' the board though, cause a girl can never have enough TEA PARTIES!!

WHITE / The absence of color. The presence of all colors. I have dreamed of WHITE in all its many shades. Perhaps it is because it reminds me of PAPER, my first love. Crisp clean pure – alive with space for the possible and the impossible... I am at once FREE with room to breathe. Whichever the case, gathering images of it here in one place makes me happier than I can clearly say...

PAPER PAPER PAPER

PAPER PAPER PAPER / HANDMADE PAPERS ~ Here are some images that prove the diversity of love for the medium....

PAPER PAPER PAPER2

PAPER PAPER PAPER2 / ...I am a papermaker. Here are more images that prove the diversity of love for the medium.... the more craftier side.

PAPER Pen & Ink

PAPER Pen & Ink / ...It is a nature pairing I suppose, with my beloved paper. I come here often to PAPER Pen & Ink, to gaze upon this collection... I love to mix my own inks, to dip my antique pens, to send a surprise correspondence to a neglected soul, to hold on to a tangible, that keyboards will never replace!

NeutralLOVE / ...I love and respect the healing, calming, intriging impact of a Neutral Palette...

PAPER Dress... / ...a selection of images from the exquisite work of paper artist Isabelle de Borchgrave.... including images from my Roadtrip to Hillwood Museum & Gardens in Washington, DC. to see "Prêt-à-Papier", an exhibit pairing Isabelle's work with the palatial surroundings of a grand country estate. Read more about the trip at: http://teawings.blogspot.com/2013/01/roadtrip-hillwoodpret-papier.html# ....

PAPERMASTER: Myriam Dion

PAPERMASTER: Myriam Dion / Newspaper! Openwork, magnifies and weakens. Using slow cutting processes, it invested the paper of his time and expertise in order to install a contemplative moment and a certain slowness in the reading of the work. Influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement, his work is built in a revaluation of manual techniques, giving special attention to the delicate experiment, repetitive processes and ornamentation. His plays counter-act a speed society and are as after digesting the world.

PAPER ARTIST :: Takahiko Hayashi b.1961

PAPER ARTIST :: Takahiko Hayashi b.1961 / ...I have found another kindred spirit... using painting, printmaking, collage, and papermaking this Japanese artist creates beautiful tectured abstractions. He says of his work, “I try to create something from nothing...to capture negative to represent positive...to express the present with history, and east and west. It is when objects exist that nothingness can be recognized for the first time...”

PAPERMAKER:: Peter Gentenaar

PAPERMAKER:: Peter Gentenaar / b. November 17, 1946 Rijswijk, the Netherlands.... I am so deeply touched by his dance with paper.... "The Memory of Paper: My inspiration is a bud, which, in spring, unfolds into a leaf. A compact folded form feeds itself with water and turns into a great spacious form. In autumn this leaf falls of the tree, the water evaporates and a small web of fibers curling around the spine is the end of this form."

PAPERMAKER :: Gill Wilson

PAPERMAKER :: Gill Wilson / KINDRED SPIRIT...originally studied paper making in Japan, for the past couple of years she has been creating work in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Greece, the Middle East and Japan. She is passionate about the creative potential of plant fiber pulps and uses this exclusively in her work, which is ecologically ethical and sustainable. She uses a combination of traditional Japanese techniques as well as processes developed through practice...

TEXTILE / ...this kinship I feel between paper and textile is beyond words. So I won't even try to explain...

PAPER ARTIST :: Jacob Hashimoto b.1973

PAPER ARTIST :: Jacob Hashimoto b.1973 / (from Greeley, Colorado, USA) is an artist based in New York. Drawing on his Japanese heritage, he creates light three-dimensional structures such as wall hangings comprising thousands of miniature 'kites': bamboo-stiffened rice paper hexagons suspended with nylon fishing line... LOVE LOVE LOVE.... ♥

PAPER:PAPER:PAPER:resources

PAPER:PAPER:PAPER:resources / ...growing everyday, papermakers and paper artist share an organic connection. A love of all thing PAPER. We are a worldwide community - we are a force to be reckoned with. So here are my shares. Want to join this board? Just message me!

PAPERmixed media: Leslie Dill b.1950

PAPERmixed media: Leslie Dill b.1950 / Lesley Dill works in sculpture, photography and performance, using a variety of media and techniques to explore themes of language, the body, and transformational experience.

PAPER&WATERCOLOR: Liu Yi

PAPER&WATERCOLOR: Liu Yi / Amazing water-colorist Liu Yi was born in Jiang Nan, Shanghai. He is an associate professor and deputy dean of the College of Art and Design in Shanghai Institute of Technology, and member of the Chinese Artists Association. My soul loves his work.....

PAPER&Watercolor...

PAPER&Watercolor... / ...when the two meet it is just magical!

PAPERwater paint sky: Tyrus Wong

PAPERwater paint sky: Tyrus Wong / October 25, 1910 – December 30, 2016. Was a Chinese-born American artist. Painter, muralist, lithographer, designer and kite maker; as a film production illustrator, Wong worked for Disney and Warner Brothers, including as the lead artist on Disney's 1942 film Bambi. My mentor...

mySTYLE / When I can I will have one of these!....

TIFFANYblue / Light medium robin egg blue really. First published in 1845 on the cover of Tiffany's Blue Book. It was Napoleon III wife’s, the Empress Eugenie’s, favorite shade. A 19th century fashion plate the world over, she made robin egg blue fashionable. …For me it speaks peace. The serenity of knowing just how pleasingly I holly-go-likely on my way...

Home... / ...I am a country girl with a little bit of city taped to my ankles ...Ideas, impressions, feelings, for the season when I will finally establish the PLACE that is home.... were love and peace and joy and creativity will abide in bountiful supply ♥

PAPERROSE FARM / Home. Finally. The place where I dream and create and refresh my soul... est. 2016

Chair / ...it is not just a place to rest - it is an art form with few limitations!

James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834~1903

James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834~1903 / ...was an American-born, British-based artist active during the American Gilded Age. He was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail. People associate him with his painting commonly known as "Whistler's Mother" -- but his work was so much more than that! I love his work because it was a precursor to my own abstract impressionism.... And of course I love all is compositions in WHITE!

LACE / Fragile, intricate, rich in story, texture, and history. For those of us who love its beauty ~ it has the power to arrest, to take one's breath away.

Studio... / tap tap tap slosh slosh slosh.... hiding away in my little haven. I work pulling from little collections of whatnot's suspended in time, I travel new worlds via my work.... My dream workspace sort of looks like this >

HOME..City Place

HOME..City Place / I am a country girl at heart with a little city taped around my ankles... In town during the week, I imagine for myself one of those lovely brownstones, lower level for gatherings (or perhaps a renter), gallery on the first floor, living space on the second... and the TOP FLOOR.... My Studio is bathed in northern light, a large open space with just the right amount of work surfaces... A small closet door conceals the elevator that whisk me between all four floors, as the work week demands... ♥

InMyGARDEN / ...gentle breezes on my face, the earth beneath my feet as I walk down intriguing paths, container gardens in ancient urns, lush comfortable seating in beautiful colors, serenity - and NO mosquitoes!!!

Windows / ... let there be LIGHT!!! Streaming beaming billowing rays of GLORY divine!!!

Faded Blue&White...

Faded Blue&White... / The lazy relaxed cozy colors of abiding. Nothing makes me feel more at home, or so safe... There was no place like my Mama's house early in the morning. In the soft light of early dawn, we talked in quiet tones with teacups in hand. Peaceful. Intimate. Birds singing against the hush outside... If there is a more prefect color – I am sure I cannot imagine what it would be. For lovely pale worn treasured shades of faded blue, with a little white sprinkled in, comes pretty close!

Turquoise&WHITE

Turquoise&WHITE / ...freeing, refreshing, radiant, clear. at peace with confidence. glistening in windswept sun. dancing upon mysterious ancient shores. vines of glory travel up and down smooth surfaces. reminds me that her name is bohemian... after-all....

AAT :: Harlem Renaissance

AAT :: Harlem Renaissance

AAT :: History ~ 1500-1865

AAT :: History ~ 1500-1865

AAT :: HISTORY 1870 ~1900's

AAT :: HISTORY 1870 ~1900's

Abolitionist / In the winter of 2013, NPLC discovered a close tie to the Neo Abolitionist movement in the home of William Hayes Ward, who was one of the founding members of the NAACP in New York. Ward lived in North Newark, New Jersey. We honored his house with a plague in December of that year... This board is a collection of images and links related to The Abolitionist and Neo Abolitionist (who helped African American Communities establish themselves after slavery) history in the NJ, NY regions...

AAT :: PHOTOGRAPHY

AAT :: PHOTOGRAPHY / Reference material for my course (see blog: http://aatraditions.blogspot.com/)

INSPIRATION / ....for my heart, for my art, for the pure joy of seeing.

AAT :: James Van Der Zee (1886 - 1983)

AAT :: James Van Der Zee (1886 - 1983) / Van Der Zee was an African American photographer best known for his portraits of black middle class New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period. Among his most famous subjects during this time were Marcus Garvey, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Countee Cullen.

AAT :: Carrie Mae Weems (b.1953)

AAT :: Carrie Mae Weems (b.1953) / ...is an American photographer and artist. Her award-winning photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity. She has said, "Let me say that my primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of Afro-Americans in our country (USA)."

AAT :: CIVIL RIGHTSmovement

AAT :: CIVIL RIGHTSmovement / “People should: GO where they are not supposed to go, SAY what they are not supposed to say and STAY when they are told to leave.”
~ Howard Zinn

AAT :: Frederick Douglass 1818-1895

AAT :: Frederick Douglass 1818-1895 / Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing

AAT :: RECONSTRUCTION

AAT :: RECONSTRUCTION / Notes/Images for my AA Traditions course: RECONSTRUCTION - The time after the Civil War which lasted from 1865-1877. A plan proposed by President Abraham Lincoln to rebuild the South and bring states back into the Union. It was also a time when African Americans enjoyed short lived freedoms to integrate into the US landscape as full citizens. They embraced that new right and made such amazing advances in citizenship, that Jim Crow laws where created in opposition.

AAT :: Textiles

AAT :: Textiles / I teach a course called African-American Traditions. This images are to share with my students. Read more about the course at: http://aatraditions.blogspot.com/

AAT :: BASKETRY

AAT :: BASKETRY

AAT :: Early Fine Arts ~ 1700-1920

AAT :: Early Fine Arts ~ 1700-1920 / Until the mid-nineteenth century, survival was the primary concern of African Americans (AA) in the US... Especially during the Post-civil War period approches to artistic expression changed dramatically. Here are some of the artists of the era and images of their work collected for the course I teach on AA material culture. Learn more about the class at the blog: http://aatraditions.blogspot.com/

AAT :: Africans in Renaissance Europe

AAT :: Africans in Renaissance Europe / Europe’s ties to Africa were ancient but sporadic. Particularly strong bonds were forged during the heyday of the Roman Empire, and in the 15th/16th centuries, By the mid-1400s expansionist Europe was hungry for new materials and markets. Superficially Africa and Europe had embarked on an age of cosmopolitan rapport, an idea promoted in art...

AAT :: ART/GRAPHICS

AAT :: ART/GRAPHICS / Holding board for the course I teach on African American Material Culture. Learn more at: http://aatraditions.blogspot.com/

AAT :: Ephemera

AAT :: Ephemera / Advertising references for my course on African American Traditions:

AAT :: POTTERY / Archaeologists, who have probed the grounds on old plantation sites dating back to the seventeenth century, regularly turn up fragments of unglazed earthenware... Consequently these rough earthenware vessels should be recognized as "Afro-Colono" pieces if not, in some cases, simply as examples of African pottery. This board collects images of African-American pottery and it's parent African pottery... for AA Traditions course I teach, visit blog to read more: http://aatraditions.blogspot.com/

AAT :: Metalworks

AAT :: Metalworks / A teaching aid for my African American traditions course.

AAT :: African Sculpture...

AAT :: African Sculpture... / African sculpture is like the earth to me. Flawless geometry and design met by the purity of the "flash of the Spirit!"

Artifacts / ...precious objects chosen with purpose and meaning, ordained by the integrity of the flash of the Spirit...

AAT :: American Sculpture

AAT :: American Sculpture

AAT :: WOODwork

AAT :: WOODwork

AAT :: Architecture

AAT :: Architecture / The architecture of Africa, like other aspects of the culture of Africa, is exceptionally diverse. Many ethno-linguistic groups throughout the history of Africa have had their own architectural traditions, using a wide range of materials. The question Melvin Mitchell ask is what is the influence of AA architects?...

AAT :: CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

AAT :: CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

AAT :: Betye Saar (b.1926)

AAT :: Betye Saar (b.1926) / ...was a part of the black arts movement in the 1970s, challenging myths and stereotypes. In the 1990s, her work was politicized while she continued to challenge the negative ideas of African Americans.

AAT :: African Diaspora

AAT :: African Diaspora

Kerry James Marshall ~ b.1955

Kerry James Marshall ~ b.1955 / is an American artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles, and is known for large-scale paintings, sculptures, and other objects that take African-American life and history as their subject matter.

AAT :: El Anatsui b.1944

AAT :: El Anatsui b.1944 / Many of Anatsui’s sculptures are mutable in form, conceived to be so free and flexible that they can be shaped in any way and altered in appearance for each installation. Working with wood, clay, metal, and—most recently—the discarded metal caps of liquor bottles, he breaks with sculpture’s traditional adherence to forms of fixed shape while visually referencing the history of abstraction in African and European art....

AAT :: Aboriginal Artists

AAT :: Aboriginal Artists

AAT :: Bill Traylor ~ 1854-1949

AAT :: Bill Traylor ~ 1854-1949 / Born a slave in 1854 in Benton, Alabama, where he remained through Emancipation until mid-1930's. In 1939 he started drawing on cardboard, in his 60's and met Charles Shannon, who offered him drawing materials and financial support. During the next four years, he produced between 1200 and 1500 drawings. Traylor is known for his intriguing use of pattern versus flat color, a sophisticated sense of space, and the simplified figures that give his work a startlingly modernist look. AMAZING!

AAT :: Folk Artists

AAT :: Folk Artists

AAT :: Alma Thomas ~ 1891-1978

AAT :: Alma Thomas ~ 1891-1978 / was an African-American Expressionist painter and art educator. She lived and worked primarily in Washington, D.C. and the Washington Post described her as a force in the Washington Color School. The Wall Street Journal describes her as a previously "underappreciated artist" who is more recently recognized for her "exuberant" works, noteworthy for their pattern, rhythm and color. She did not begin her work as an artist until her mid 70's!

AFRICAstyle / ...O' ancient doors - open - that the queen of Glory may walk in... I always saw you like this...

YELLOW / ...The truest of optimism ~ YELLOW. How can one be unhappy in the face of it!?

Janet Taylor Pickett ~ b:1948

Janet Taylor Pickett ~ b:1948 / ...what can I say about my dear friend, mentor, sister... Amazing artist, generous light, flourishing soul. A mixed media artist, Janet’s artwork is an exploration of the garment as a metaphor for identity. Her beautiful and complex layering of metaphor and symbols create transformative narratives. Using personal biography as her compass, she balances the personal with the universal, the present with the ancestral past. She says, “I am driven by a love and profound respect for nature..."

Kendall Buster ~ b:1954

Kendall Buster ~ b:1954 / ...Another Shero of PAPER, TEXTILE, MIXED MEDIA proportions :: Kendall creates massive scale sculptures that operate as models for biological architecture. She is widely regarded as one of the most innovative sculptors in the United States because of the unusual merger of art and science in her work. Trained as a microbiologist,

Here Comes the Sun...

Here Comes the Sun... / ...Little Darling it seems like years since you been here.... HERE COMES THE SUN and I say: OH The joy of BRIGHT LIGHT and COLOR! It is time to dance you know...

Coco / ...just beautiful brown skin....

ORANGE / "Orange is the happiest color." ~ Frank Sinatra

Winslow Homer 1836 ~ 1910

Winslow Homer 1836 ~ 1910 / American landscape painter and print-maker...

Pattern / Dance with me O Lover of my soul, To the Song of all songs... As the apple tree among the trees of the forrest so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. (Songs of Solomon) ...

Clementine Hunter ~ 1886-1988

Clementine Hunter ~ 1886-1988 / ...was a self-taught African American folk artist from the Cane River region in Louisiana. She was born on a plantation said to be the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin worked as a farm hand, never learning to read or write. When in her fifties, she began painting, using brushes and paints left by an artist who visited Melrose Plantation

Njideka Akunyili Crosby b.1983

Njideka Akunyili Crosby b.1983 / ...is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles. Her works on paper combine collage, drawing, painting, printmaking, and photo transfers that negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating works that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds. She has created a sophisticated visual language that pays homage to the history of Western painting while also referencing African cultural traditions.

Francesco Clemente ~ b:1952

Francesco Clemente ~ b:1952 / ...(born in Naples March 23, 1952) is an Italian contemporary artist... he has adopted for his paintings a vast variety of supports and mediums, exploring, discarding, and returning to oil paint, watercolor, pastel, and printmaking.

Diane Savona ~ b:1949

Diane Savona ~ b:1949 / One of my Sheroes... She says this about her work: "My art is constructed of salvaged linens, found at the local equivalent of archaeological digs - garage sales. Once-common crocheted doilies and embroidered tablecloths are becoming extinct. By presenting them as unearthed fossil specimens, I hope to change viewer perception of our textile heritage."

Quilts / I see quilts as story fragments... of love... of lives lived... The DNA of a touch, heart and hand working in union.

LINE:: Jois Parla

LINE:: Jois Parla

Gerhard Richter ~ b:1932

Gerhard Richter ~ b:1932 / ...was born in Dresden on February 9, 1932, is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, thus following the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style... LOVE his freedom to CREATE!

FEET / ...Are a celebration of the soul they carry.... I love looking at the feet of old people, knowing they must have traveled many miles, with many stories to tell... Reminds me of the Bible scripture: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!" (Romans 10:15 or the original Isa 52:7). One hopes ones feet always bring with them the news of love and light...

TEXTILES :: Elana Herzog

TEXTILES :: Elana Herzog / ...NY based installation artist and sculptor. There's something mysterious about her fabric works, that embed seamlessly into gallery walls. She says, "I staple found textiles using thousands of staples. Parts of the fabric and staples are then removed and sometimes reapplied, leaving a residue of shredded fabric and perforated wall surface in some areas, and densely stapled and built-up areas elsewhere..." LOVE her work.

ROSE / ... My namesake "fairrose." Clear bright sunny truth! I see in these hues the many depths of her petals.... From the softness of her gentle pinks to the daring of her shocking red – OH MY! A rose by any other name would not be as SWEET.

METALwork / ...for me it is always about line, scale, proportion, harmony, color... The skill to give something so ridged wings to dance...

AAT :: Gordon Parks

AAT :: Gordon Parks

Romare Bearden ~ 1911-1988

Romare Bearden ~ 1911-1988 / ...Saw "Southern Recollections" show at the Newark (NJ) Museum. Seeing Bearden's work up close was AMAZING! Truly a Collage masters... A prolific artist, writer, musician, he was part of the talented tenth who came of age during the Harlem Renaissance. Many artists and art historians consider him one of America's most important and inventive artists. His words: "The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs."

BOOK... / ...I admit it, I covet old books. Their beauty their history, the fine craftsmanship....

Gustav Klimt ~ 1862-1918

Gustav Klimt ~ 1862-1918 / ...was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. His primary subject was the female body.with an incredible sense of design, use of patter, and metallic surface design. His works are marked by a frank eroticism.

Baskets / Have been in love with baskets all my life... Traveled to Johns Island, SC on a grant to do a series of painting on the sweet grass basket makers, and fell in love. I learned how to make coil baskets and now teach the craft as part of my African Traditions Course at BC... BASKETS, BASKETS, BASKETS, like PAPER, PAPER, PAPER, just can't seem to get enough.... building an on-line collection - a lot easier to store!! - to supplement my ever growing personal one...

Light / a study of mood and environment illuminated by the very practical considerations of design...

GOLD / a dense, soft, shiny, malleable and ductile metal. The color of money through the ages.... I love the fine details of ancient gold, I covet the qualities especially of those early craftsmen....

Wood / ...When I see wood, I feel the earth: ancient, mysterious, solid. My connection to all of nature. It grounds me with a peace that says, "you will never go wrong remaining close to its beauty and utility."

MIXEDMedia / ...here are my absolute favorite artists like my friend and mentor Janet Taylor Pickett, Nick Bantock, and African artist El Anatsui, as well as a few new friends who now inspire and inform the work I do as a papermaker....

Mary Cassatt ~ 1845 –1926

Mary Cassatt ~ 1845 –1926 / Saw an exhibit of her work yesterday... her story made her one of my sheroes and new mentor...

IVORY / ...there is a certain dignity to IVORY... that has always been, and shall always be. No need for the bold statements of her cousin Blanco... Ivory like the lady she, awaits til all eyes are upon her, then she makes her entrance.... With certainty. Confident. Like old money, just is, without ever shouting a persona... The epitome of understatement.

Frida ~ 1907–1954

Frida ~ 1907–1954 / “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” ~ Frida Kahlo

HANDWORK / ....meditation of hand heart and design... It's a celebration! ...just can't get enough of...

ROADTRIP :: East Coast

ROADTRIP :: East Coast / NJ, NY, CT, PA and a few points beyond... just some easy junts from my porch in Seven Oaks... (ie. daytrips, and perhaps a few overnighters)...

ROADTRIP! / When it is time, I AM ready to go!!!

ROADTRIP! :: International

ROADTRIP! :: International

A QUEEN'S JEWELS...

A QUEEN'S JEWELS... / ...a bit over the top? Perhaps. Extraordinary, exceptionally unique expensive creations - fit for HER MAJESTY - Queen Esther....

Bed / ABIDING... I love light airy comfortable unique spaces to rest and dream.... Just to BE. Some perhaps a bit on the grand scale, I am after all the QUEEN's daughter.....

Sterling / ...I love collecting intimate pieces of all kinds, especially the endless necessities of the Victorians... Polishing them so they display with glamour and mystery. O' the stories they know... "Do tell!" we beg, for we know you have lived many lives, and even more to come when your sojourn in this haven ends... Not knowing your secrets makes you all the more precious... So I shall not lament. Rather, I shall care for you dutifully, as a mother tending her only child, that your legacy continues...

INDIGO / Catherine Legrand calls it "The color that changed the world." From green leaf to blue cloth. Deeper than the dept of the sea with a history spanning back 5000 years. Culture around this dying process sprang up independently among many cultures of the earth.

Cecil Touchon ~ b:1956

Cecil Touchon ~ b:1956 / Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist... working in Collage, Assemblage and Construction...

Pearl... / ...from necklaces to tiny mother of pearl buttons found in a flea market, I am hooked! No matter the age - or whether they are wild or cultured or made from nacre shell, they are beautifully iridescent timeless treasures....

BLUE / ...I am confident. Rich and vibrant. As deep and cool as the ocean's floor. completely dependable. giving comfort and excitement. trust, honesty and loyalty. I am sincere, reserved and quiet, with no need to make a fuss or draw attention... I am true... my course certain.

Place... / Some places completely arrest you... they are almost other worldly... Indoors or out, they carry with them a spirit of awe and reverence...

R. Brent Malone 1941-2004

R. Brent Malone 1941-2004 / Born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1941, He is considered by many to be the "Father of Bahamian Art." He was the first Bahamian to receive a distinction in “A” level Art. (Cambridge G.C. E.) In Nassau, studied at Don Russell’s Academy of Fine Arts & was and apprentice at the Chelsea Pottery (Nassau Branch). Art schooling in England was at Beckenham School of Art & at Ravensbourne College of Art & Design. As a graduating student, he first exhibited at Oxford College, England.

MISC ~ Artist I Like!

MISC ~ Artist I Like!

Under Painting...

Under Painting... / ...love the contrast of warm under paint to cool surface or vice verso - it makes the work come alive....

Mint / Woooosh! Soft lite - just a whisper of a color that dares to define - I AM HERE! No need for intimidation, just let me sooth your longings... FRESH! CLEAN. CRISP.

GREEN / ...Still wondering the full of emotion this study will stir? Does make me happy to visit here!

Tootie's Dream / Just before the Queen pasted away, her and my Aunt Tootie had a dream.... She saw Esther in a garden like none other with the wind blowing throw her gown and hair... Collected here, inspiration images for turning her dream into art.

Illustration / ...from the love of the LINE ...to the stroke of the BRUSH.

ROADTRIPS:: Landmarks

ROADTRIPS:: Landmarks / ...just because l love beautiful architecture especial historic, and I am an advocate of Historic Preservation; a member of Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee (NPLC) (and more recently elected NPLC's Executive Director: http://newarklandmarks.org/), -- I needed this board. So, hear are some places on my bucket tour list...

Door / ...threshold. a beginning, an ending.... a holding place

Henri Matisse ~ 1869 - 1954

Henri Matisse ~ 1869 - 1954 / Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse, French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. His mastery of expressive language of color and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Claude Monet ~ 1840 – 1926

Claude Monet ~ 1840 – 1926 / A founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy. From the late 1860s, rejection from the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts, Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley organized the Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs (Cooperative and Anonymous Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers) to exhibit their artworks independently in1873...

WOMENof Impressionism

WOMENof Impressionism

Vincent van Gogh ~ 1853 – 1890

Vincent van Gogh ~ 1853 – 1890 / Was post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work—notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color—had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

WOMENinART / ...It's a little surprising the impact this study has on me... Looking at all these portraits of women from many strada of economic and social backgrounds and yet possessing the familar that is a sameness all sisters will recognize... Common threads of complexity - concern, dignity, apprehension, longing, guardedness, strength, courage, resolution... No words necessary. I have certainly been in those shoes....

Pierre-Auguste Renoir ~ 1841 – 1919

Pierre-Auguste Renoir ~ 1841 – 1919 / He was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. He began his career as an apprentice plate painter at Levi & Sons. He became so skilled at the delicate brush work needed to paint the plates that it later showed up in the skill with which he captured light in his Impressionist paintings....

Feathers / whisk me away on a flutter of the Divine....

Abstract Painting

Abstract Painting

Pretty in Pink / She comes not as a shout, but as a whisper.... The remembrance of love past with the promise of more... "Do you feel the invitation?" she says, "you need only to reply softly, for we are listening..."

Elizabeth Colomba

Elizabeth Colomba

Ruud Van Empel b.1958

Ruud Van Empel b.1958

PURPLE / Deep is her soul... rich and divinely ROYAL... As if the two words were created exclusively for one another..

FACE / I am endlessly in love with the landscape of the FACE...

◉ All About Harlem ◉

◉ All About Harlem ◉ / Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk. This board only deals with everything about Harlem. Pins which are not related to Harlem will be deleted. DON'T PIN MORE THAN FIVE PINS AT A TIME, NO DAY LIMIT. If you would like to be added to this board follow this board and leave a comment under any recent pin. Don't add your friends. No spam, no nudity, no excessive pins and no adult content. Happy pinning.

HistoryBits / ...just tidbits of this n' that... I love history. Especially the little known kind...

ART HistoryBits

ART HistoryBits

O'my HAIR / ... that crown of glory...of ancient wisdoms and contemporary incarnations... YES. My individuality. Short long processed natural - I am radiant! Behold my dignity. Behold my strength. I have listen to the wind of opinion, but still I own my praise... I AM glorious!

Composition... / Do you see me, do you feel me? Can you see where your life touches mine? Something in each of these images hold ideas I find compelling....

HAT! / Simply must be worn with attitude, or not at all...

B&W / ...A love of the tonality the starkness the boldness of it all! Black and White fashions.... is there anything more classic?

WOMENinART Working

WOMENinART Working

Cecil Beaton ~ 1904-1980

Cecil Beaton ~ 1904-1980 / ....For his freedom of spirit in design. I love the work of Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton. English fashion, portrait and war photographer, socialite, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. His whimsy is yet relevant!

JOSEPHINE! / "The most sensational woman anybody ever saw, or ever will." — Ernest Hemingway

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