Name: Vikki North
Location: USA
Title: ‘Roses in the Lamp Shade’
Price of Original: $600
Size: 12″x 12″ x 1 ¼”
Medium: Acrylic on Gallery Wrap Canvas
Artist web site:
http://www.theredchairgallery.com/
http://redchair-vikkisblog.blogspot.com/
http://artgiftsunder99dollars.blogspot.com/
13 responses so far ↓
1 Gwen // Jul 17, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Gorgeous! Love the soft delicate lines of the roses next to the hard delicate lines of the basket. Wonderful composition!
2 Vikki // Jul 17, 2010 at 8:02 pm
Thanks Gwen. As I look at it now – its a really terrible shot of it. OMG! The background is actually a greenish black. I guess my camera has it’s better days. lol
3 Sonya Meglaurel // Jul 17, 2010 at 8:15 pm
It’s so Victorian Vikki! I really like the direction your florals are taking you!
4 Vikki // Jul 17, 2010 at 8:23 pm
It is Victorian in flavor. I didn’t realize that. I like that description.
5 Sonya Meglaurel // Jul 17, 2010 at 9:33 pm
whomever grabs this up/you should show them your Victorian lady on the gentleman’s cigar case as a companion for this piece!
6 Rusty // Jul 17, 2010 at 10:16 pm
lovely, lovely, lovely.
I think the light wants its shade back.
beautiful floral
7 Gail // Jul 18, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Vikki, I Want to smell these roses- they are so beautiful! Love the lighting in this, it enhances the beauty of every petal.
This would make a lovely card or invitation.
8 Vikki // Jul 18, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Thank you Rusty and Gail. These were really fun to do. Haven’t ventured into florals that much – but hope to do more.
9 cheryl // Jul 18, 2010 at 8:10 pm
These remind me of ole cabbage roses, full and o so sweet. Spilling out from the iron clad shade, hard and softness wrapped in one. I would happily grow these. Absolutely beautiful Vikki
10 Vikki // Jul 18, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Thank you Cheryl.
11 Sarah // Jul 19, 2010 at 11:05 am
Vikki, I love how paintings of florals make them last forever. I agree, so soft and pretty, I like the one fallen leaf. I am also so drawn to the lamp shade (really lamp shade or basket?), love that style.
12 Ray Shuell // Jul 20, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Hi Vikki, out of the two I don’t know which I like the best. This one has so much charm and poignancy, inanimate objects with personality, neat, as you say in America.
13 Vikki // Jul 20, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Neat-O Ray! Actually I don’t think anyone says that anyomore…. At least God help us if we do. lol
What I was trying to do here is step back to a traditional style of still life painitng from the turn of the 20th century. But, by not centering the piece, I was also trying to give it a contemporary signature. I don’t think an artist of that time frame would have off centered their subject to point you only see half of it.
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