Buenos Aries

Next up... The Tango

Tango

So I think I found the subject for my next painting series. Like my visit to Paris and seeing the Moulin Rouge inspired the series on the dancers, this year I'm visiting Buenos Aires, Argentina. After seeing many groups of Tango dancers performing in the streets, and because this is the "Birth place" of the Tango, that just kind of settles it.

I love the Tango, I learned just a little a few years ago when I was in a play called "Six Dances in Six Weeks" from a professional dancer and fell in love with it. It is, the most sensual, exciting dance there is.

Here too is a link to a video of this couple dancing dancing the Tango in the Street.

A Day in Paris

The image is a combination of sketches for my next oil/pastel series from my "all too short" time in Paris. As an artist, I soaked in as many memories of images my mind (and iPhone) could take. From the streets of Paris, to the Eiffel Tower, the Opera district, a day at the Louvre and of course Montmartre and the fabulous Moulin Rouge and the spectacular musical entertainment with glamorous costumes and dance performances.

I've long been a fan (as you can tell from my painting style) of the post-impressionist artists from the turn of the 20th century such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin. So my next painting series will be of the memories, from the Can-can dancers, to my long walk to the Eiffel Tower, the city of Paris and of course, the Mouline Rouge! Click here to view additional photography taken for this series.

Venetian Stars

This is the latest in the series titiled “My Blue World” and is also part of my “Internati
onal Painting” series. This was unfortunately the only oil painting from 2007. While I did produce some pastels, most of my creative time spent i 2007 was in the form of photography and theatre. 

The “My Blue World” series title gets its name from a 70s song called “Turn to Stone” by Electric Light Orchestra. Blue being one of my favorite colors, not a state of mind. ; )

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Hands of Hope

February 6th, 2008,The First Wednesday Art Walk in Downtown Jacksonville is where I began the painting. The progress you see to the left, from the mockup below it is what was accomplished on this evening, approximately 3 hours of work.
Hands of Hope" is part of an event coming up in may that benefits The Saint Boniface Haiti Foundation, a non-profit, volunteer organization. Its primary mission is to provide health care to the poor of Haiti in the rural area of Fond Des Blancs. The painting to the left is the current progress I made during the start of the ArtWalk last night. This represents about 3 hours of work. B The painting will be auctioned off May 2nd. Before I began the painting I received some photos of the hospital in Haiti, with a striking photo of a young boy. I decided at that time I would use use face in the both the paintings and the marketing materials.

April 2nd, 2008,The First Wednesday Art Walk I returned to Gold's Gym to work on the "Hands of Hope" painting The image here was a practice pastel because the painting being auctioned off at the event has many hand represented, but they all ended up looking like mine. So I set out to take photos of my neighbor's hands to use as model. Click here for more details about this painting and the purchasing of prints and related works.

Art of Anthony 2008

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See the start of my new painting Hands of Hope during the February ArtWalk in downtown Jacksonville

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My Blue World Paintings

"My Blue World" which takes its name from a song title from a band in the 70s/80s called Electric Light Orchestra, is not specifically a style of painting but a color chosen as part of a method of painting that dates back to the Renaissance. If you look at many paintings by artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, or Raphael, the basis of the colors are dark brown over a brighter base color like yellow. The technique involves first painting the canvas a lighter color, letting that dry, covering it over with a darker color, then before the darker color dries, removing it in the areas you want the light to shine through.