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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Shahid Kapoor's Rare Pic

Shahid kapoor rare pictures when he was child.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

It's 6:25 on a Saturday night and I am still at work. Mad busy here today, one might even say plain old mad. Waiting for the driver to return so I can go home. I have just grabbed a few stems of what's left out of the cooler and they lay wrapped and wilting also ready to go home.

Because, come Monday. we're all going to be showing what's in our houses. Flower wise that is. And if you think I might have an unfair advantage because I work at a shop, you would be wrong. I don't choose, I humbly take the leftovers. And I don't "design", trust me, I put them in any available vase, sometimes snatching out the old and plopping in the new without even changing the water. Don't try this at home!

Home again, home again. Flowers plopped unceremoniously in pitcher. Tomorrow is another day. I'm off to drown myself in the bath. Talk soon.

xo Jane

Titian Madonna and Child sells for record $16.9m

The oil on canvas painting had changed hands six times

A 450-year-old Madonna and Child work by Titian has sold for $16.9m (£10.7m) in New York, setting a new auction record for the Renaissance master.

A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria was sold at Sotheby's to a European telephone bidder.
It beat the previous Titian auction record of £7.5m ($11.9m) paid at Christie's in London in December 1991.
That was the price achieved for the artist's Venus and Adonis painting.

Titian's masterpiece fell short of its high estimate of $20m

A spokeswoman for Sotheby's said A Sacra Conversazione was "one of only a handful of multi-figured compositions by Titian that remain in private hands".
It was also, she added, "the most important to appear at auction in decades".
Sotheby's said the oil on canvas work - painted around 1560 - had changed hands only six times during its life.
Prior to recent exhibitions in London, Paris and Amsterdam, it had not been seen publicly for 30 years.
In 2008 the National Gallery in London and the National Galleries of Scotland launched a joint appeal to buy a pair of Titain paintings for £50m each.
Enough was eventually raised to buy one of the paintings, Diana and Actaeon, for the nation. Funds are currently being sought to secure its partner, Diana and Callisto.

Friday, January 28, 2011

'tangled up in blue'

My draft of a painting of Bob Dylan that I've wanted to try for awhile now. Watercolor is still a daunting medium for me because it is so unpredictable. Though that is the appeal of playing with it I suppose. The scanned image here seems washed out, but the painting propped up next to me looks more vibrant and has some depth to the shadows. I'll try to play that up in the next try.

I've had Boots of Spanish Leather playing to get me in the mood as I've been blending ultramarine, cobalt and payne's gray to find the perfect mix. Such a beautifully haunting song, it'll forever remind me of a night it came on my ipod while I was way out to sea somewhere off the coast of Nicaragua. I love those chance happenings when life has a soundtrack.

{lyrics can be found here and inspiration for my monochromatic water color here.}

Fun timing to try this painting since I was browsing the blogs as it dried and found this Paint Party going on over at Room Remix - the blog and decided to play along. Go check it out here.

Cemetery Military Equipment

Near Kabul is a cemetery of military equipment, an echo of the war in Afghanistan.It is a pity that the pictures are not so much, but still look very interesting.

happy friday

My pretty amaryllis perched on my desk is starting to bloom and it is oh so pretty. I don't know if traditionally it was supposed to bloom closer to the holidays? If so, I'm happy for the late bloomer because it is the not pretty kind of grey outside today and the translucent red is gorgeous spot of color.