Welcome to my painting blog

I'm getting this going so that my website will just get updated with new art every few months, but I'll also be able to share my thoughts on some stuff I"m working on, some paintings and artists that inspire me to keep painting. And well, I can ramble alot easier using blogger.com, can't I?

I've been working on this "list" of favorite paintings for a while now. here's one of my all-time faves for ya:

Paul Gauguin, Portrait of Madame Sartre

In many of Gauguin's Brittany paintings, I'm eerily reminded of some family resemblance. Which is odd because most of my ancestors came to America WAY before 1885, way before. Apparently many of my ancestors on my maternal side were Brits who came over as indentured servants before the American Revolution.

Here's one where the little girl looks identical to me! whoa...trip out.


The Title is Breton Girls Dancing, and I first saw this at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002. Since then, I have not found any reproductions that look even close to the original. Because of the resemblance, and because of the headdress, this one hits close to home. I'll go into it later.