The Artist Challenge

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• 1 Sonya Meglaurel // Oct 4, 2009 at 7:43 am

  Of course the pearls caught my eye. look at the bubbles duplicating each pearl. Thank you for including your reference photo used to create the work. One day perhaps we can sit and watch you paint while enjoying outstanding conversation and cup of coffee. Your mind must create the stories you marry up with the pieces as you paint.

• 2 beckielboo // Oct 4, 2009 at 11:01 am

  Another masterpiece. I am delighted that you medium is acrylic – watch out oils!

  The detail is better than perfect. I especially love the detail of the hidden pearls within the clam!

  As always, I am in awe of your talent!

• 3 WILLIAM MALTESE // Oct 4, 2009 at 12:35 pm

  Vikki. What a marvelous painting, including its whimsical title! Painting pearls, and succeeding in getting their lustre right, ain’t easy, gal! So, you are to be commended on obviously consummate painting skills for having so managed. Just don’t tell anyone where that oyster is to be found, or you’ll find people rushing in to get it for attempted multi-clonings. And did I mention how much I love your vibrant color palate?! And did I mention how much I enjoy you in a milk bath, with Johnny Depp in a thong?!

• 4 Vikki // Oct 4, 2009 at 1:01 pm

  THANK YOU Sonya. Those are actually my Mom’s pearls and I’ve been collecting seas shells for years.

  I have a remedy for that frustration of not coming up with something clever for a theme-’ Do a still life!’. That’s always a quick answer and keeps me painting.

  I started taking photos and putting them on my blog at one of my reader’s request. People seem to want to understand how we work as artist..and that’s kind of cool.

• 5 Vikki // Oct 4, 2009 at 1:17 pm

  Thank you Beckie. Still lifes can be very zen for the spirit.

  And I go between acrylics and oils all the time. Each has their merit.

  Now what my experience has been- patrons really don’t qualify or care if a painting is ‘acrylic, oil, gallery wrapped canvas or created on an old piece of cardboard. They’re not buying a tube of paint or painting surface. They’re buying your work – your talent and something that moves their heart.

• 6 Vikki // Oct 4, 2009 at 1:31 pm

  Hi William- Thank you. My art is my heart – as your words and stories are your’s.

  And your right it’s ‘an oyster’ not a clam that brings us the pearls of the seas. LOL. Clams are considered the poor boy of the sea.

  I wrote a little tad of ‘ironic verse’ about this oyster and pearls on my blog. You might enjoy.

  Yes my Johnny Depp fantasy has taken on life of it’s own and now even immortalized in wax!

• 7 Eric // Oct 4, 2009 at 1:38 pm

  Simply beautiful. I like to think the oyster is taking back it’s gifts, claiming them himself. I cannot fathom the time it takes for you to complete the details of such a piece.

• 8 Vikki // Oct 4, 2009 at 2:29 pm

  Thank you Eric. This was actually a ‘quickie’. I was able to infer a lot of detail with out to much labor. lol As you know we’ve had a busy month!

• 9 Candle Artist Jfay // Oct 4, 2009 at 3:07 pm

  I really love this painting Vikki – I think it is so beautiful – It made me smile : ) And I cannot believe that this was a “quickie” painting!

• 10 cheryl // Oct 4, 2009 at 9:55 pm

  Beautiful ! I have a thing for pearls and you captured their lustere perfectly.

• 11 Roseann Munger // Oct 5, 2009 at 1:57 pm

  As a fellow lover of gorgeous color, this painting delighted my eyes! One feels as if you could reach in and twine the pearls around a finger.

• 12 Sarah // Oct 6, 2009 at 10:38 pm

  I immediately liked and felt the weight/gravity of the water…is that odd to say? I enjoyed your story, Vikki, I had fun imagining the scene. I’m glad the oyster got her pearls back – I mean the nerve of some of us! I have often wondered about life in the ocean and thought it kind of ironic that even though we share the same planet, sea creature’s lives are so different from ours on land and often foreign to each other.

  Oh, and I would definitely take Johnny Depp in a thong, in wax (!?), or dipped in chocolate…ever since his 21 Jump Street days

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