Published in a Journal: A Continuation of Art

Here's to another addition to 500 Days of Van Gogh!  Granted it has been a while since the last post regarding anything about Van Gogh's work, yet, I can't continue the art conversation without always raising the suggestion that art includes so much more than pictures and media.  It is ingenuity, hope, effort, and faith in…

White Sky

White Sky That my imagination would leave room for the imagination. A canvas to stretch and prime. I move the sun above the earth and stop Like an architect at her blank table The mistakes of my ink bleed across the sky Red, orange, blue, and white. My favorite mistake is white. Like the paper…

A Walk to Remember: Vincent Van Gogh, Part One

It was as if a grand chasm had opened beneath us and the name was trapped reverberating over and over again Vincent, Vincent.   "Hey, " my hand wavered in the air, this guy looked familiar, "your last name isn't Van Gogh is it?"  Social grace eludes me in the most opportune moments. He looked surprised,…

A Walk to Remember: Vincent Van Gogh, Intro

Alright so I'm trying this sub-series within the main series about Van Gogh.  My overactive imagination needs to go somewhere! I fell asleep one night and woke up face to face with the heavens and the stars.  I was lying on my back as one usually does when sleeping, but I wasn't in my bed.…

Van Gogh and Millet: an Original Copy

Once upon a time, Vincent Van Gogh was an amateur artist.  Really?  Yes.  I know it's hard to believe but it's true. 🙂 Van Gogh started practicing his artwork with only paper, chalk, watercolor, and reed pens.  He even attended art schools in France (keep in mind that he came from the Netherlands) and made copy after…

What’s your favorite painting by Van Gogh?

This is one of my favorite paintings ever done by Van Gogh.  Pictured is a windmill in Montmartre, France where he spent a good deal of time not only because he loved the scenery and the people, but also because it was cheap living.  🙂  I saw the painting in an art museum once and…

Van Gogh and Van Gogh: an Identity Crisis

"I am so glad things have been arranged so that I can work here (Etten) quietly for some time; I hope to make as many studies as I can, for that is the seed from which later the drawings will come" (Letter 144 to Theo, brother, May 1, 1881). Before Van Gogh became the great…

Van Gogh at 17

..."the forehead already full of lines, the eyebrows on the large, noble brow drawn together in deepest thought.  The eye, small and deep-set, were now blue, now green, according to the impressions of the moment.  But in spite of all the awkwardness and the ugly exterior, one was conscious of a greatness, through the unmistakable…