"Scholarly Tiger and Brave Bird" 8x10
This is not a good photo, but as always, I'm too impatient to wait for a scan to post. The background in real life is more of a creamy cream than a nondescript gray. Oh, well. This is my contribution to Paint Party Friday and Illustration Friday. Once I do get a scan, I will indeed be posting my new little friends in my shop, which has been rather quiet as of late.
I also am the grateful recipient of an early Christmas present from a very sweet relation. This here is a mid-century Baldwin spinet. It is now sitting quite elegantly where my dining room table used to be, but it is a small price to pay for having a real live piano! I'm not terribly good at playing piano, but I do enjoy it and I can't wait to dust off the ol' sheet music and start horrifying my neighbors! I'll be a virtuoso before I can successfully explain to anyone that "no, I cannot turn the volume down." And, my new dining room will either be in my basement or in my painting studio. I haven't quite decided. This is the first new song I'm going to learn to play. Beautiful, yes?
What a lovely song!!! I was so excited when I got my piano a few years ago and the only time I think I horrify my neighbors and postman is when I sing along while playing :D
ReplyDeleteLove your artstyle ~Wonderful ~ and a piano ~ Wow ~ it is very grande! ~thanks, namaste, Carol (Share the Creative Journey) Happy PPF ^_^
ReplyDeleteOh you are sooo lucky, that is spinet just beautiful and I would love to have that in my dining room... I am with you on the scanning thing... life changed for the better when I got a home scanner xx
ReplyDeleteLoving your great illustration, so fun. Beautiful spinet a true treasure. Happy playing and Happy PPF, x
ReplyDeleteYour painting is exquisite. And your piano is beautiful. In 1970 my dh bought me a Yamaha with cabriole legs. It looks very much like your gorgeous Baldwin. I don't play but I can pick out anything I know the tune to (right hand only!) Faye
ReplyDeleteGreat illustration! I love the scholarly tiger and his glasses..and yes, that is one very brave bird! Beautiful piano as well! :)
ReplyDeleteHow cute that the tiger has glasses! what an amusing picture they make! And I never thought there were spinets still in existence! I only read about them in quaint victorian novels! Patsy from
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Love the new painting! Have fun with your new (old) spinet. You could always ask the neighbors for requests...
ReplyDeleteGreat painting, and wonderful early Christmas gift! I'm sure your neighbors will enjoy hearing you play.
ReplyDeleteYour art is amazing!
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very cool! Must show my daughter this one!
ReplyDeleteThe painting is beautiful, the stripes of the tiger looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteIt's always troublesome trying to get one's artwork in the right colors again once it's been scanned/photographed, what looks good on my screen might look bad on someone else's... O_O''
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Wonderful illustrations! Such darling little details in it. Good luck with your piano playing too! :)
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about the colors, my camera and scaner also do very different things :oP I like how they turned out, and congrats for the piano!
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