ARTS AND MINIATURES: A sketch

segunda-feira, 12 de julho de 2010

A sketch

Today I found a study in my files I´ve done before decorating this japanese lacquered tray, I´ve done it years ago but I still like it. Gouache over paper (scale 1/1)

Lacquered tray, hand painted with egg tempera over gold leaf l/1

Also when I found today the photo of my last oil paintings, I wished to restart soon, my recovery from the brooken foot is doing well. Thank you all to the ones who were concerned about me.

Oil paitings in scale 1/12

3 comentários:

Sans!12 de julho de 2010 às 09:17
Ana, they are amazing!
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Josje12 de julho de 2010 às 09:29
Love the gold leafed and painted tray Ana! Good to hear you're on the mend.
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Maria Jose31 de julho de 2010 às 07:54
Beautiful tray !
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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.

You are also invited to visit my other blog:

http://am-ambientes-em-miniatura.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-artes-e-miniaturas.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-bonecas-e-companhia.blogs.sapo.pt/

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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.