ARTS AND MINIATURES: I love roses

segunda-feira, 1 de março de 2010

I love roses

Today I found the first rose in my garden, a very shy botton.....but for me it is a sign that spring will arrive soon, this year we are crossing a very hard winter.

A lonely rose bud in my garden

Every year we have lovely roses and the most beautiful are these in lilac.

I assure you that the colour of this roses is absolute natural and they are beautiful.

I am also very found of these ones: yellow and orange:

As soon as the weather gets better I will return to my studio after these months of "hibernation" and start painting, and I´m thinking precisely in painting some roses. Next I will show you some of my paintings dedicated to this beautiful flower.

Oil on canvas - scale 1/1 - (the lace is also painted on a black background)

Oil on canvas - Miniature scale 1/12

Oil on canvas - miniature scale 1/12

Oil on canvas - scale 1/1

5 comentários:

Merry Jingle1 de março de 2010 às 22:26
You have wonderful roses in your garden - I'm a rose enthuastic having over 100 different roses in my garden. I just hope that they have survived this awful winter, so cold. And we have so much snow that it will be May before all of it has melted. So do enjoy your wonderful climate there :)

And your paintings, awesome! I especially love the one with the parrot, the lace is superbly done!

Ira
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The Old Maid1 de março de 2010 às 23:04
Beautiful roses! Beautiful pictures!I just love this picture in the middle:)
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Ana2 de março de 2010 às 12:18
It´s nice to receive your comments, thank you,
Ana
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Marsha @ Tattered Chick2 de março de 2010 às 12:50
Ola Ana!

Thank you so much for leaving me a comment!

I lived in Lisboa for approximately 7 years. My stepmother is from Portalegre. I have so many fond memories of my years living in Portugal!

I am going to post one of these days very soon about the doll china that I have that was also made in Portugal!

The teacup says it was made in (I can't make out the first letters as it's faded) I think it's ESTATUARIA

Have a wonderful day!

((Hugs))
Marsha
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JDayMinis3 de março de 2010 às 17:28
Beautiful roses and your painting are exquisite. Thank you very much for visiting my blog, so lovely to meet you. Cheers, Jean
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Welcome to my new Blog

I hope that you will enjoy my new Blog, I intend to organize it in a diferent way of the others, I will mix images of my work regarding miniatures and other forms of art like artistic paint, but I will also include lots of photos , because I have a passion to photograph, although I know very litttle about it, but I have my artistic filling to choose interesting matters. All the photos in this Blog shall be mine.

In which concerns my miniatures all of them are hand painted, and that´s a work that I love to do, enjoy it.

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HERCOLANEUM AND POMPEII

Hercolaneum was founded by Hercules according to mythological tradition . In 63A.D. the town was hit by a earthquake which attended all the Campania, and a few years later in 79 A.D. was devasted by the eruption of Vesuvios. When the eruption ended Hercolaneum was covered with a thick layer of mud (at some points over 10 meters deep). Abandoned by its inhabitants this town was never rebuilt.

The same happened to Pompeii, the reconstruction work that followed the earthquake was not yet completed when on August 24th, 79 AD Vesuvius unexpectedly awoke, submerging the countryside with ashes,, cinder and eruptive material, while rivers of lava mixed with mud followed down.

In 20 AD the Volcano was considered extinct by Strabone a geographer, therefore the population was taken by surprise and many of them were killed trying to escape. The eruption of the Volcano was so imense that the top part of the crater collapsed forming the present caldera.

This tragedy that lasted for three long days arrived to us through the letters of the writter Pliny the Younger to Tacitus.
Pompeii remained buried under a layer of ash with more than six meters deep preserving all the evidence of life by that moment, which came mericulously to light more than two centuries ago.