More Art on my Website

I'm uploading a few more pieces of art of my website. One of them, "Suburban Cowboy," has been accepted into a juried national show, so it isn't for sale yet, and won't be until May.

Of course, if it sells at the show, it never will be! The model was my husband, Joe. He makes a great model, since he's a native Texan, and there is something about Texas "attitude" that you can capture in a painting!

Another one is a portrait of a little boy that I delivered last week, and I was given permission to put it on my website. Herewith is a sketch of the child that was rejected for the painting. I still like it, but when you see the painting, you'll see why my buyer wanted the standing pose.

Wait a couple of days and the new art will be there.

Nancy
www.nancyparkart.com

Art as Reality

Art as reality. I'm a long-established "paint-slinger," and I've had people comment on my art that it looks so real it could be a photograph. Even my husband jokes that I've got cameras at the end of my fingers.

I say, "Thank you," politely, but there has always been a reservation in my mind: I don't think most photographs look that real. Great masters of photography, of course, are the exception, and I think it's not just the eye of the creator, but the soul, that in its perception of another soul, elicits the inward features that the camera cannot see. There is a gesture or a twinkle that captures the personality and character of human being, no matter how young or old. The same is true of landscapes, still lifes, flowers, and, as far as I know, abstraction.

There is a pull of enchantment that I can only see as ultra-reality. Magic is everywhere, and it's real. What do you think?

-- Nancy
www.nancyparkart.com