My mom has a milestone birthday this year! She is turning 70, and I am so proud of her. She has lost ~50 points lately by diet and exercise, and is in amazing shape! She has been a proud member of Jazzercise and has been going non-stop for nearly 28 years now. They took this picture of her recently and she looks so confident and happy. It is one of my favorite pictures of her, so I painted her a card of it!
I painted my husband and also my self portrait :) Now we have all 3 kids, and us as well, in our hallway on display! Then I also painted another self portrait, although I think the one above captures my essence better!
I love painting animal pictures!
This one was a commission from a woman my husband works with :) Her husband has several beautiful dogs he has trained to hunt- this is Stella, she is a 14 year old Weimaraner. In this picture she is in the perfect hunting position, pointing! For just a bit of fun, here is a close-up of my daughter's eye.
So beautiful. Gets her pretty eyes from her dad :) Anyone in Ohio? Come see the Seagrave Museum Exhibition in the Reed Gallery in Cincinnati in Feb 2020! Artists around the country have created works described in this new fiction book: http://www.acre-books.com/books/the-ambrose-j-and-vivian-t-seagrave-museum-of-20th-century-art/
Yours truly has created "Elephants", which is described in the book as: Dolores Lababera American, 1945–1976 Elephants, 1957 Watercolor on paper Gift of the Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Family Trust One of the most profound criticisms of contemporary art and Abstract Expressionism is some variant of “my child could have done that.” The statement often sparks a dialectical investigation into the role of the artist, the meaning of art, the challenges of abstraction, and the ontological quest. All of these ideas were covered in one of my mail-order courses, though I have long forgotten what was discussed. As a twelve-year-old, Lababera smeared brown and blue watercolor onto paper, framed it, and sold it to the Seagrave Family Trust, troubling the notion that children cannot create works of genius, for in Elephants, everything is contained—the history of Western art, the answer to what it means to be human, to live, and to die. |
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