Passamezzo

 

Passamezzo.

A painting which started with the word “Passamezzo” which is an Italian folk dance of the 15th century. The example I could find of the dance had two dancers moving around each other in a way that suggested a binary system of stars to me. I have a great love for “twinny” things, so I made the dancers into ballerinas in star costumes.
8" x 10" acrylic on acid free paper. Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler.

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Passamezzo

Passamezzo. Work in progress today.

Passamezzo.

Work in progress today.

Passamezzo

A starry backdrop for my painting that I'm calling Passamezzo.

Blue John

 

 

Blue John, Boy with an Accordion. by Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler

 Original 8" x 10" acrylic painting on acid free paper of a boy playing a toy accordion, on a surreal night with a red faced-moon and an anthropomorphic star. Loosely inspired by the colors of Blue John, a mineral found in the caverns of Derbyshire, England.

Batology, The Study of Brambles

Painting in progress today. I actually looked up how the stars should be placed instead of peppering them in, willy-nilly, like I sometimes do. Appreciate the science!

Fairy Tale from the Black Sea

The first illustration is finished for my re-telling of The Fairy Tale from the Black Sea. I have 24 more planned so I hope you will enjoy following the progress of this tale.

Fairy Tale from the Black Sea

I am working on some illustrations for a story I will call "Fairy Tale from the Black Sea". Here is the first illustration in progress. A young couple in love under the wheeling heavens, wondering what the future will be.

Custom Hand Embroidered Fox Pillow

I made a custom hand-embroidered fox pillow to go along with the rabbit pillow. They look very nice together. These are approximately 8.5" 11" and  9" x 12".
If you like these embroidered pieces you might like some of  these Hand Embroidered Art pieces at My Good Babushka. Fine Hand Embroidery, Art. Jewelry

Custom Made Rabbit Embroidered Pillow

8" x 11" custom hand-embroidered pillow featuring a rabbit and flower, moon and stars. Cotton thread on cotton canvas, hand sewn and stuffed with polyester fiber.

Advent

Finishing up my painting, Advent. Here is how the completed work looks at my Etsy shop. You can read more about it here or see other paintings available from My Good Babushka!

Advent

Advent. Painting in progress. Inspired by The Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine. Thinking about advent, beginning, arriving in the astronomical sense of stars and galaxies being born, coupled with the religious symbols of the four candles in the advent wreath, and the traditional advent calendars with new doors and thresholds to open each day.

Advent

I expected all those starry spikes and glowing nebulae and spinning galaxies to put up more of a fight, but they really jumped to, like they were meant to be. You get a lucky break sometime. I nearly went back and tried to add yellow ocher to some parts of the sky, but the sky didn't want it. So I backed off.

Advent

The start of my painting, Advent. I am relying on blue-purplish blue and rose, as those are the colors of Advent, usually.

Advent

I am working on sketches for my painting "Advent". I've decided to work on some paintings inspired by my reading of The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. It's a chronicle of the lives and miracles of the saints. I hope it will be broadly spiritual and meditative and help me work on my problem of conveying complex things more simply. As you can see, I started out with a very crowded and busy composition, throwing in everything I could find about Advent. Then I pared it down to a few elements that I felt were the most important. The Advent Calendars we are all familiar with, with the little doors that open. The idea of "beginning" in astronomical terms, novas, supernovas, stars colliding, imploding, and galaxies forming. I also wanted to retain the traditional Advent wreath with four candles, which in the end is pared down to just the four candles.