Category: Art

  • Lidereses- Live Your Dreams, painting for Spain’s Woman’s Day

    The annual Day of the Woman is March 3. In Picanya, a small town on the outskirts of Valencia, the Dones de Picanya (Valencino for The Women of Picanya) organize an annual street art event. My contribution is called Lidereses, Women Leaders, consists of five paintings of women engaged in leadership activities.

    When I was young there was little information about potential careers. At that time, women became mothers, teachers or nurses. There were very few doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc. You have to talk to young people, especially girls, about the opportunities that can be their’s. You start with a dream. I want to be this or that. Then you learn about what it takes to become what you want to be.

    Lideresas
    with Nuria at Dones de Picanya
    With Nuria in Picanya. She appears in the lower right painting.

    Last year’s contribution, Live Your Dreams, is here https://garyjkirkpatrick.com/live-your-dreams-art-on-the-street-fair-in-valencia/

  • Ukraine: Destruction, Displacement

    A year on, war in Ukraine continues. War always brings out the best and worst in humanity. Examples of both are here represented.

    Destruction, Heroism: Ukraine
    Destruction, Heroism: Ukraine, acrylics on Canson 300# paper, 70 x 50 cm, 28 x 20″

  • Video slide show of Conte drawings

    These are both short (less than two minutes) and long poses.

  • My own Trump NTF

    My own Trump NTF (digital drawing)

  • go figures!

    Messing around with conte pencils

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    two dressed models sm

  • Tkalciceva-Street, Zagreb at Night, watercolor

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    Tkalciceva-Street, Zagreb at Night, watercolor 24 32 cm/ 9.5 x 12.5″ 300 gram paper

    Zagreb is a lively city at night. The crowd is generally younger, in the 20’s and 30’s or thereabouts. They populate the bars especially, and the eateries do not seem to be suffering. There’s a lot of interesting architecture.

  • Church on the Sambre

    Church on the Sambre River
    Church on the Sambre (Belgium) , 24 x 32 cm, 9.5 x 12.5″ watercolor 300 gram paper

    Another in the series of paintings from a summer on the canals of Northern France, this ancient church on the Sambre River sits right on the river beneath a tree filled slope.

  • Castle on the Sambre II

    Castle on the Sambre River version 2
    Castle on the Sambre II, 24 x 32 cm/ 9 1/2 x 12″ watercolors

    Aboard our boat Viking we cruised the canals and rivers of Northern France and Belgium. Chateau, forests, hills, water scenes at every turn. I depicted scenes such as this in a style mixing realism, impressionism and expressionism. This is a second version of this gorgeous and charming bit of history on the Sambre.

  • Castle on the Sambre

    Aboard our boat Viking we cruised the canals and rivers of Northern France and Belgium. Chateau, forests, hills, water scenes at every turn. I depicted scenes such as this in a style mixing realism, impressionism and expressionism.

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    Castle on the Sambre 24 x 32 cm 9.5 x 12.5″ approx

  • Samois sur Seine, watercolor

    Samois sur Seine
    Samois sur Seine, watercolor painting, 20 x 30 cm

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