My mom painted this a few years ago. I think it's just fantastic. Mom has been studying water- color for maybe 20 years now, and she just keeps getting better. She's temporarily waylaid by a complication from eye surgery, but she should be back at the drawing board soon. Her specialties are flowers and food.Couple of great parents I have: My dad grows vegetables and my mom paints pictures of them.
Me? I'm mad and I eat.
dude, that's gorgeous! Go Cookiecrumb's Mom!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful painting. What a coincidence my mum( sam's granny) tries her hand at painting. Not the standard of your mom but we are proud of her anyway. She has been painting bookmarks recently, flowers and birds, nothing related to food!!.( for the family to remember her by she says).
ReplyDeleteHello ladies. Thanks for the compliments. My mom will be thrilled ::if she ever drops by again!::.
ReplyDeleteSam's Mum: My mom used to paint gorgeous watercolors for birthday cards (which I've saved, mom) -- but this was before the advent of quickie (and fun) computer graphics programs, so that's where my cards come from now. (Tip of the hat to your mum.)
xx
What incredible depth and shadow!It looks like like you could reach out and pick up the pitcher.I wish artistic ran in my family.
ReplyDeleteReally nice painting. You have a talented mom. I wish I was artistic. I think my brother got all the art talent in our family.
ReplyDeleteGreg: I tried being a commercial illustrator for years, but finally had to fire myself because I sucked. So, in my nuclear family of four, my mother is an artist, my brother is a musician, I'm a tomato-ranchin' bum blogger (after a long and happy career as a linguist/artist/journalist) and my dad is... well take your pick: Retired career Navy pilot, champion fisherman, vegetable gardener, inveterate prankster...
ReplyDeleteHi Kalyn: Our comments overlapped.
ReplyDeleteHad fun at your site today.
That's amazing. You can feel the chill of the glass and the sharpness of the facets in that stopper. I've never been able to do watercolor like that. In fact, I don't know if I've ever seen glass done so realistically in watercolor, a not intrinsically shiny medium.
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing is gorgeous!
Truly beautiful! Glass is really difficult to paint and she has done it so well! Complimenti to Cookiecrumbs mum!
ReplyDeletereally lovely with an luminescent quality.
ReplyDeleteHoly cow, what an incredible painting! She is so talented, and has obviously worked so hard.
ReplyDeleteI'm blushing. Thanks for all the
ReplyDeletelovely compliments from all you nice bloggers. Cookie, you're sweet.
Why don't the food blog awards have a best food illustration category?
ReplyDeleteIt would be a nice fight between cookie crumb's mom (fabulous painting, btw) and Spice tart's sister.
I feel an alternative award ceremnony coming along...
Thanks for all the compliments cookiecrumb but you forget to mention how much I enjoy chasing the little white ball. I hope I'm a better golfer than prankster. Thanks sweetie
ReplyDeleteI love this painting -- beautiful! I send good thoughts to your mom for a speedy healing of her eyes after the surgery. Thanks for sharing the painting and a little about your parents with us.
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That's gorgeous, cookiecrumb. You're mom is really talented. It's rare to see such detail in a water color.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking as an illustrator (who could never master painting): WOW, that is seriously beautiful. It's amazing to think that opaque substances can render transparency and reflectivity. Tell your mom she rocks.
ReplyDeleteWow! That's worth coming out of lurkhood for. Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteYou know, KathyR, I had no idea I had a lurker! I think of this as such a small circle of readers. Thanks for the nice words.
ReplyDeleteTana: You just told her! (I was taking an airbrush class back in the Pleistocene, the glory days of Paper Moon Graphics, and one of the students looking at a slide show of the instructor's heavy addiction for painting *chrome* -- motorcycle engines, hubcaps, etc. -- asked, "Do you actually use chrome paint in the airbrush?")
Is she local? Does she want to paint my van I just inherited?
ReplyDeleteI suck really badly at any drawing or painting. Even my stick people suck. The only painting I ever did that didn't suck was a water color rocket ship on my kitchen cabinet doors whilest I was cooking. But then I sanded it off when I repainted, sigh.
Oh well, temporary art can be cool too.
Biggles
Cookiecrumbs Mom - Beautiful talent. The glass is amazing - looks so real.
ReplyDeleteBreathtakingly lovely! Oh, how I wish I had such talent!
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