Karin Bolstad Original Artwork: Old Painting made New

Friday, October 28, 2011

Old Painting made New

"Baptism"

24" X 24" Mixed Media Acrylic Painting

SOLD

I did this piece in 2007, and I thought I had posted it somewhere on this blog, but apparently I didn't. So I don't have a "Before" image, only the "After" - but basically what I did was add birds and more detail to the dress and the moths. It now belongs to one of my favorite peoples here on Whidbey Island.

2 comments:

Maria-Thérèse ~ www.afiori.com said...: Very interesting work!!; October 28, 2011 12:01 PM
Karin said...: Thank you Maria-Therese!!!; November 2, 2011 9:15 AM

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"When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment to the life you have been given, which is the life itself.... That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitude for the gift of life."

- Stanley Kunitz

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery- celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from- it's where you take them to."
-Jim Jarmusch

Friday, October 28, 2011

Old Painting made New

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