New Peacock painting Merchandise

I am so proud to offer up five of my most recent paintings inspired by the tropical nature of Miami. I just uploaded five new peacock paintings onto my Fine Art America site. That makes 63 paintings and drawings now available for any economic budget on almost a hundred products. You can get a print on canvas, metal, wood, framed paper, or as a greeting card, a mug, a phone case, a tote bag or a shower curtain, throw pillow, duvet cover, yoga mat, and more!!!
Check it out on FFA! Have fun!  I will travel north with memories of the south Florida tropics on my bath towels and greeting cards.

Ships within 2-3 business days! Let me know what you get.
All the best-
Tilly

Charcoal heads

I love ending the semester with the large charcoal head project. It is a lot of work but it never fails to bring results. The kids might complain during the process, but soon they startle themselves and glow with pride.

The trick is to bring them to it one step at a time... I use worksheets for learning the details of the main facial features. And we use the grid transfer method.

Cranach's enigmatic signatures

Lucas Cranach must have the coolest signature emblem ever! On January 6th, 1508 he was granted the rights to sign all his works with this seal by Frederick the Wise, his employer and the elector Prince of Saxony. A winged serpent with both a crown on its head and a jeweled ring in it's mouth was soon used on all Cranach workshop products, sometimes with the initials L and C. In 1537 the emblem changed. With the murder of his eldest son Hans, who was traveling to Bologna, Italy, like all good artists were expected to do as part of their studies, the heart broken father folded the wings and turned the serpent in another direction.

This is part of my Climbing up the Family Tree: Art and History Lessons for my Kids, "Searching for Cranach", a text booklet project. I plan to publish a 7-8 page book on Cranach, with a pocket sized original print in the back, by the end of this spring.