Angel of Peace

So much turmoil and sadness in our world.

Looking for comfort in images of calm and peace.  

Here is Angel of Peace, oil on canvas, from a few years ago. 

Powdered Snow

A few years ago, I took a little Winter trip in Vermont.  It hadn't snowed much and the effect was of  a dusting of powder.  I painted these two little landscapes when I came back home.  (each: 12x12.  acrylic on board.)

Blue Hills

Blue Hills

Oil on canvas

24x29

SOLD

Albany Center gallery 2014/15 member show.

From a Few Years Back

 

The Green Curtain.  5x5.  gouache on board.

The Water Hole.  5x5.  gouache on board.

I was lucky to meet today the owner of 2  little pieces I donated to the Center Gallery a few years ago.  (2004?)  I was very fond of these little gouaches and felt sorry to have forgotten to scan them for my records.  Lucy was gracious enough to lend them to me for that purpose.  Here they are. 

Mrs Aplux

 

I was playing with acrylics and Mrs Aplux showed up.  Who is she?  Not sure yet.  Will she come back?  I hope so.  

Cello

 

Here is a sketch of a cellist and below the little painting that followed:

8 plants

 

One of the very early drawings from my Funky Plants period.  I did tons of elaborate pen and ink drawings along these lines.  And a few paintings too.  Here is one I like:

Building

 

Next drawing from my old notebook.  I was playing with different pens and pencils lying around at my mother's apartment.   I even wonder if the reddish lines were not black originally.  

Here is an oil painting exploring the same theme:  

 

Catching up

Difficulties with Blogger made me post on FB but not here.  Time to catch up with the next few images from my old notebook.

On Friday, I posted this sketch.  Done from a sculpture a few years ago at Mass Moca.  I remember a series of very realistic tigers studded with arrows.  It was quite impressive.   

Monday, I posted this early abstraction.  2 Spirals.  I went through a period of spirals and still enjoy looking at them.  Here is below a drawing I did from that sketch, in oil pastels:

Tuesday was the turn of this page:

It shows an early effort at incorporating comics and children's books.  A potential page for Mothers Can't Get Sick were I do do it again.  

And earlier tonight, I posted this sketch of a beautiful statue in Paris and sketched quickly later on from memory:  

Thanks to Google I was able to find that it is by sculptor Baltasar Lobo:

Absolutely no continuity in these images.  I am posting chronologically and they do happen in that order in the notebook.  

From Angel Time

 

An old sketch from the period when I was painting angels.  Here is the first large painting that came out of this composition: 

 

And then, unsatisfied with this, I painted over.   Here is the second try:

 

And that one got painted over too.   With something else altogether.  

an etsy site

Dancing Tree
oil on canvas
16x12

thank you Thor for your help and suggestions with my opening an Etsy site. plunged in yesterday and it is now running with 7 landscapes, including this tree. will be adding one or 2 images every so often. i'll have to figure how to have a widget on this page about it. for now, here is the link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/sylvieKstudio

opening tomorrow

getting up
acrylic on board
12x12

i will be buying the munchies tomorrow morning. so glad Visions will take the drinks in charge. whoever is planning to come should bring a friend or 2.

a show

Opening at VISIONS GALLERY
Friday, May 7
5-7pm
in conjunction with First Friday,

SYLVIE KANTOROVITZ
in VISIONS II

"Sacred Moments"
show: May 7- June 25, 2010

Dear Friends, I hope to see many of you.
Why not starting your evening with Art at Visions with us?

Visions I will present
PAUL KANT
"Playing with Dolls at 70"
(Are they pairing us alphabetically?)

Visions Gallery
Pastoral Center
40 North Main Avenue
Albany, NY 12203
518-453-6600
gallery hours: M-F 8-4

getting ready+a sale

reading
oil on canvas
18x17

Yvonne came this morning to make her choice of paintings for the show starting in May at the Visions II gallery. She will be showing paintings from a few years back: all figures including many angels. The title of the show will be SACRED MOMENTS. I will post details later on as well as some pictures, of course.
The above picture will not only be part of the show but is already sold! Thank you Yvonne.

kandinsky

improvisation 7

Kandinsky identified 3 types of paintings (designated by titles associated with music):
-impressions, based on real life subjects.
-improvisations, spontaneous and unconscious images from the artist's inner life.
-compositions, formally developed formats, often preceded by a series of studies.

interesting to say the least!

sam's favorite

under the canopy of trees

this is sam's favorite. thank you sam.
go to her site!