Chloe West’s striking oil paintings merge Dutch Golden Age iconographies with mythic motifs of the American West.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/chloe-west-games-of-chance/
Chloe West’s striking oil paintings merge Dutch Golden Age iconographies with mythic motifs of the American West.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/chloe-west-games-of-chance/
Work gloves with blood smudge
Likening her compositions to a dining table’s place settings, Lizzie Gill paints elaborate still lifes that explore the matriarchal lineages and how objects passed down shift in meaning over time.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/lizzie-gill-still-life/
Second session on a @paulfoxton.bsky.social workshop. Came together pretty quickly. #oilpainting #paulfoxton #stilllife #oilstilllife #art
Note to self: Yes, you can make art while you're waiting for the microwave to finish, and yes, you can post without editing.
Some value composition variations for an oil still life. Still on the drawing board this one... #oilpainting #oilstillife #stilllife #composition #art #artcomposition
"Vintage Goerz Camera" by James DeFazio
Prints and more available at: https://james-defazio.pixels.com/featured/vintage-goerz-camera-james-defazio.html
Classic martini cocktail, oil painting still life.
ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/classic-martini-cocktail-still-life-deborah-league.html
Taken this day, 2014, still life with breakfast and stormy sea https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/13588903164/
Some pretty hydrangea flowers for Sunday, have a good one!
Available here...https://tina-lecour.pixels.com/featured/blue-hydrangea-elegance-2-tina-lecour.html
Monet's vibrant spring flowers #monet #impressionism #stilllife #artlovers
"Rum Row," Frederick Judd Waugh, 1922.
This is a fairly off-the-beaten-track painting for Waugh (1861-1940), who was known mostly as a marine painter. His seascapes are still admired today.
The son of portraitist Samuel Waugh, he had the best education and lives mostly abroad, painting seascapes. He returned to the US in 1908 where he went from New Jersey to Maine to Provincetown, MA. He also did illustration work for periodicals, and was hired by the Navy to design camouflage for ships.
Most interestingly, he published a number of fairy tales with American settings. He was deeply interested in folklore and the supernatural, and sought to create a New World fairy tradition for young readers.
But today we have some lovely irises in empty old rum bottles. These probably were considered trash in his day....now they're valued collectibles!
Happy Flower Friday!
Krzysztof Grzybacz’s large-scale oil paintings invoke tenderness and curiosity.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/krzysztof-grzybacz-floral-compositions/