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This is some artwork that I started playing with around New Year's, at the beginning of this new year January 2021, but I did not get around to finishing it until this week. It is a composition where I reimagined various images, figures, postures, fashions, designs and layers of patterns to create the painting pictured which includes the reflection of ancient universal and eternal concepts of sacred geometry. One of the photos includes an owl painting of mine that I have had floating around my studio space for years that inspired me to add an owl figure in the piece. Some other new year paintings and reflections that I have blogs about on this website and one of my baseball blogs that also reflects on geometry ( and includes links to more baseball art) : January 2016: "Process Pictures from January 2016 Painting" Process Pictures from Jan. 2016 Painting - Chrissy Breslin Schroeder January 2017: "January March" January March - Chrissy Breslin Schroeder January 2018: "Air to Water: The Revolution of Ten Koi" Air to Water: The Revolution of Ten Koi - Chrissy Breslin Schroeder January 2020: "Facing 2020 in 12 Streams" Facing 2020 in 12 Streams - Chrissy Breslin Schroeder December 2020: "Welcome 2021" Welcome 2021 - Chrissy Breslin Schroeder Baseball Blog: "The Timeless Charlie Hustle and The Geometry of a Rose" "The Timeless Charlie Hustle" and the "Geometry of a Rose" - Chrissy Breslin Schroeder I just came across this sketch folded up in a stock of old sketchbooks, designs, ideas, etc. that I must have been playing around with a long time back... The subject is my mom when she was a young lady. ~ I'm thinking that at the time I just folded it up because I didn't think much of the artwork or really give it that much effort ( or maybe I just never found the time to finish it ), but I like it now and am reminded of what a kindhearted beauty she was. Marian Gabriel { "Mimi" } Fox Breslin ( 1933 - 2003 ) : I am the youngest of her and my Dad’s ( Leo J. Breslin, 1928 - 2000 ) seven children. Together they had three sons and four daughters making theirs a family of nine. I’ll add this other find I also came across this past week while putting away the stash of Christmas decor and collectibles. It’s my mom’s hospital card from the day I was born. ~ As is probably so for many or most people about his or her birthday, I’ve always found the numbers and date interesting as far as numbers and dates go. My mom always told me that it was peaceful to be in hospital the Sunday I was born and away from the hyperactivity of Christmas morning. ( She had all her 7 children within 9.5 years. ) There has never been a time that I could not imagine how that could have been the case for her. This January is so welcome... Wishing us all the best in 2021. Organizing old photos on this New Year’s Day & added a slide file of painting process pictures to my blog on this website from July 2018 { "High Summer (2018)" } Slides of Process Pictures from Artwork in that Blog: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Here are some pictures of the joys found in 2020 ( the year of the Covid pandemic & life in quarantine ) and my painted Christmas gifts that I surprised each of my sons with since both of them got a new puppy this past year. In February 2020, my Joey, who loves to spend as many winter weeks as possible in the mountains skiing, got a Bernedoodle he named "Gigi". - - And then around Thanksgiving, my Sam, who is loving life living in Chelsea, Manhattan, got his French Bulldog named "Sprout". *Gigi* the Bernedoodle: The real Gigi ~ *Sprout* the Big City Dog: { Sprout's painting background is based on one of Sam's spontaneous texts to me of the wonderful settings found in his neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan. In particular in this case, it was a texted photo of a beautiful garden with tall sunflowers growing right along the side of the road that I remembered and reviewed for inspiration in the painting of Sprout. } The real Sprout ~ A picture of Joey & Sam on Christmas morning 2020 after opening their Christmas gift surprise. ( The artwork in the background of this photo is my brother’s acquired painting by my Great-Grandpa, William P. McDonald, of my great aunt. ) A Little Slideshow of Some of the Process Pictures of the Grandpups: When my boys were younger, there was an era when I painted dogs all the time. I used to call my home studio space the dog pound because when you walked into the room all you would see were so many dogs… all kinds of dogs each with a different expression staring down from the stacked rows of shelves encircling the room. Here are a few images of some of my old dog artwork that I was able to find on my current computer. ( There are many more pictures of my dog paintings, but they are on an old computer file. ) A “Redbone Coonhound”. (…haha, that is what my photo file’s label says it is.) : I remember creating all kinds of various background designs, patterns, and abstractions in the paintings... This one I created to donate the artwork to a fundraiser for my sons' high school. ( The school building constructed in 1960 is made with tan colored brinks that are distinctive of that time period. - - I believe that was my inspiration for the layering of the tan rectangular abstractions behind the dog. ) These hooks… During my “dog period”, as my son once jokingly called it, I crafted stock loads of these wall hooks with many different pictures of my dog art and sold them at art shows, etc. Here are a couple pictures of the wall hooks I was able to find in my photo files. Similar to my St. X Golden Retriever, one of them is a drawing of a Cincinnati Reds theme dog that I sold with my baseball art when painting baseball players later replaced my subject of dogs. This old snapshot of a collection of painted dog tiles in a frame is looking like what we would call a ‘Zoom’ meeting in 2020… A while back, I painted this guard dog canvas sitting on our fireplace mantel. An old painted canvas with a dog subject just created out of my imagination. ....And finally and most memorable to me is a little oil painting of our beloved family dog “Moxie” when he was a puppy. Our family got “Moxie May” as a rescue dog the May Sam turned 9 and Joey turned 6 and he stayed loyally & lovingly by our sides until after both the boys were well off to college. ~ Here is a photo of a wall in our new home with the Moxie puppy painting looking at us through a stream of captured sunlight. Another painting of Moxie from a later Christmas of 2022 blog called: “Canvas #13 ~ Good Tidings of Comfort and Joy” This time of year, amongst other things and happenings in the particularly tumultuous current affairs of the world today, inspired me to do a study of a statue that is now in front of my old high school. Being that statues of war generals and the like have necessarily been a controversial subject of late in the United States and elsewhere, my attention was drawn to reflect on the statue now in front of the school I attended. The statue as stated on the gold plated plaque in front of it is called "Our Lady of Victory". I'm not sure when the statue was installed there, sometime between the 1980's & 2020 I guess since it was not there when I attended the academy. My favorite feature in the sculpture of the divine feminine is the cosmic element of the Christ child standing on top of a ball of stars. "Our Lady of Victory" { pencil on paper drawing ~ work in progress } I was attracted to the statue subject after thinking about creating some artwork to donate to my high school's annual fundraiser auction as promised to my fellow Ursuline Academy of Cincinnati 1985 classmate who is chairing this year's UA Ultimate Auction. with - Tides of Eternity Art by Chrissy Breslin Schroeder The completed original artwork on 11' x 14' fine art drawing paper with framed mat that will be auctioned at Ursuline Academy's Ultimate Auction in February of 2021 : On this Autumnal Equinox of 2020, here's an 11" x 14" canvas I just painted. I call the painting "Fall Fair" and created it by incorporating different elements from various different photos found in an old magazine collection along with some of my own improvisions.
Happy Quarantined Earth Day 2020 "That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe." ~ John Berger Painted Poppies on canvas: The painting with the first layer of color: In my years, there have only been two times in the history of baseball that *Opening Day* did not happen for the Reds in their hometown of Cincinnati - - the place where I was born and the place where the momentous spring occasion is celebrated as an official holiday with a home game regularly scheduled for the Reds since Cincinnati is the official birthplace of major league baseball. The first time was in 1966 ( the year I was born ) and due to April showers, the celebrated beginning of the season was delayed. The second time was in 1990 and the reason that year was because of a lockout and labor dispute within the MLB. A week into the schedule however, baseball came back to Cincinnati as the Reds went on to celebrate that new 1990 season and did not stop until the team brought home a Wire-to-Wire World Series Championship. Needless to say, this year the delay to the start of the baseball season due to the pandemic is most unfortunate. Nevertheless, on this day that was scheduled to be Opening Day 2020 in Cincinnati and all around the United States, I’m celebrating all that can go right and ideal in the game of baseball regardless of what external or internal conditions may alter its course. It is in that spirit that once again, I celebrate this collection of resilient team players that thirty years ago, despite the delay in the season’s beginning, went on to conquer the World Series in Sweeping *Wire-to-Wire* fashion. Below are some pictures of my signature *Mosaic Bobblehead Painting* of those 1990 World Series Champions of baseball. - - More about this artwork can be found in my blog: "My Wire-to-Wire Summer with Twelve Stars and A Piece of American History" which also includes a video of the old high-tech Riverfront/Cinergy Field scoreboard in action. More Blogs Celebrating Baseball: "Hope Springs Eternal on *Opening Day*" Joey Votto: "Paint It Black" *The Big Red Machine*: "Colorful Success" *The Big Red Machine*: “Pieces in The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum” Pete Rose: "The Timeless Charlie Hustle and The Geometry of a Rose" Barry Larkin: "Number Eleven and the Four Elements" Johnny Bench: "Bench Number Five ~ The Earth is a Baseball" 1990 World Series Champs: "My Wire-to-Wire Summer with Twelve Stars and A Piece of American History" "Happy Opening Day" in the U.S.A. ~ A Year to Remember #8 “First Pitch 2023” Here are some pictures of some artwork that I did the week after Christmas after wrapping up the holiday and finding some *New Year* time to paint. Below is a picture of a very quick and loose sketch I did in my sketchbook. For the sketch I imagined a figure and formed a posture thinking that if I painted it, I would fill the figure in with color the way that I did in my painting that I later created. Below is a picture of my painting that followed my sketchbook image above. I called it "Facing 2020 in 12 Streams". After filling in the figure with color, the rest of the canvas beyond the abstract profile became a continuation of more hand painted designs and forms that I came up with to fill the whole square canvas. Post Share Update ~ August 31, 2020 Reflection: I did this painting the week after Christmas with the feeling that the new year was going to shine new light on new energies, though at the time I had never heard of the word ‘coronavirus’ ( ...but I had enjoyed quite a few Coronas with a fresh slice of lime. ) This Monday morning marks the last day of August and the completion of two-thirds of 2020. ~ May the final third of 2020 bring less conflict and despair and more peace and hope in the country and our world. #2020 with - Tides of Eternity Art by Chrissy Breslin Schroeder Some Process Pictures: |
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