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Claude Monet, ''Breakfast''

Many artists are particularly inspired by gardens. I've been water color painting over the past several months, and I can see why...you can get away using a wide array of colors, and if you make a mistake, you can blend it away into another flower...bush...set of weeds. lol

The detail is amazing. The glass and the silver picture, all the reflections merged together.

(Jul 20, 2022 05:03 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]The detail is amazing. The glass and the silver picture, all the reflections merged together.

I know, it's literally perfect. I like the extraordinary detail...the folds of the table cloth, the hat tossed into a tree, the umbrella on the bench, his use of shadows...it draws you into the story.

Art meets technology meets livestock. The sheeps' wool is made of telephone cords..

(Aug 17, 2022 09:45 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Art meets technology meets livestock. The sheeps' wool is made of telephone cords..

https://i.imgur.com/yoED3m6.jpg

Unless they're a buff of retro and vintage eras, surely not produced by a zoomer or late millennial. I recall seeing an occasion where somebody's granddaughter struggled just to figure out how to operate a rotary phone, and perhaps needed some pointers beforehand on how to recognize one as well.

Mary Chaplin, The Geranium Season at Claude Monet’s House, Floral Art
2020