Name: Vikki North
Location: USA
Title: ‘The Gift’
Price of Original: $795 / Prints available
Size: 16″x20″
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Artist web site:
http://www.theredchairgallery.com/
http://redchair-vikkisblog.blogspot.com/
From Vikki:
My most precious gift of all is my children.
15 responses so far ↓
1 Beckie Saar Leone // Sep 19, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Vikki, this is so beautiful. What you can do with acrylic amazes me! Of course, I am partial to acrylic!!! but you always make it look like oil! Just beautiful! I’m honored to know you!
2 Vikki // Sep 20, 2009 at 12:16 am
Hi Beckie. Thanks. I’m an oil painter by trade, but I’ve enjoy working with acrylics and a lot of mediums. I do tend to try to make acrylics behave like oils because it was the way I was trained. It’s not really possible and they insist on doing their own acrylic ‘thang’..but I keep on trying. lol
3 arti chauhan // Sep 20, 2009 at 12:59 am
Hi Vikki
This is really a beautiful painting! Beckie is right..you make acrylics work like oils! Great work of art.
4 Vikki // Sep 20, 2009 at 1:50 am
Thanks Arti,
I do love glazing and that’s really the trick even with acrylics. I’ll sometimes, especially with portraiture, do a painting completely in black and white and then come back in with a color glaze. It really gives you a level of control.
5 Sonya Meglaurel // Sep 20, 2009 at 10:20 am
This…………is done with Love.
The language you stroke Vikki is so beautiful.
6 Eric S. // Sep 20, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Such a beautiful tender moment… captured with love! I really don’t know how you do these amazing portraits. absolutely stunning.
7 Candle Artist Jfay // Sep 20, 2009 at 2:56 pm
So beautiful Vikki — It immediately brings feelings of loving emotions to me and memories of how much love a mother feels when holding her new little baby.
8 WILLIAM MALTESE // Sep 20, 2009 at 2:56 pm
As usual, my dear, color (paint, acrylic) me impressed! Even I, on occasion, can be moved by the maternal instinct! Consider me so moved!
–As for our milk bath (our personal little joke that probably isn’t all that personal any more), I have the slaves busy milking the goats even now (or did you ask for camels’ milk this time around? –Please don’t tell me I should ask Johnny who’s already in too depp (he-he), and way over his head (glub-glub). –William, a fan.
9 Rusty Harden // Sep 20, 2009 at 3:42 pm
They almost appear to be a relief. Cold hard stone chisled away to reveal the warmth and softness a child’s vulnerable need that opens the coldest of hearts.
My children made me the best of what I am.
10 Roseann Munger // Sep 20, 2009 at 10:27 pm
That baby’s butt is just pinchable! A very lovely madonna and child. I like the way the mother’s face fades into the darkness. Very nice indeed.
11 Sharron // Sep 21, 2009 at 5:53 am
Words are not needed with this, your beautiful painting tells the story. Fantastic work Vicki, I keep coming back for another look!!!!
12 Pegi Sue // Sep 21, 2009 at 10:27 am
This is absolutely gorgeous!!:)
13 Sarah // Sep 26, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Vikki, I would love to sit quietly and watch you create.
14 Pauline // Oct 24, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Victoria…. this is superb…. if any person doesn’t get a warm fuzzy feeling gazing at this…. then nothing would move them. Beautiful…!
Congratulations!
15 vikki // Oct 24, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Thanks Pauline. i take that a major complement coming from the ‘master of the human form.’
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