Monday 7 February 2011

"Hilly Fields (I)", February 7th 2011











































Hilly Fields (I):Winter Harvest
oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
view on etsy.com

























Wednesday 2 February 2011

Icarus Fell (ii), Completed commission












Icarus Fell (ii) oil on canvas, 3 x 2 ft
beyond a very tenuous relationship with Breughel's painting, 
which is one of my all time favourite works of art, I have no idea what it is.  

Something about innocence.

"Se Lest" by Sigur Ros evokes the same sort of feeling in me:
you can listen to it here.





The commission was to recreate a (cropped) image of a small, sold painting:


http://www.etsy.com/transaction/39479874


with some adjustments, on a larger canvas.



More images of the painting at different stages here:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/mossmottle/sets/72157625697336625/






Related links:


images of Breughel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"


http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=431064


Musee des Beaux Arts by W H Auden

William Carlos Williams in a World of Painters, by Bonnie Costello