Sunday in the Art Room (SITAR)

 Welcome to 

SITAR is about ANYTHING art. Your art, someone else's art, writing, photography, the art of cooking, the art of sewing and textiles. Sharing historical art, street art, a story about art. Do you have a question or need help with art? Write a blog post and link it up here. We will all try to help with it. My only rule is that if someone asks for critique it must be done with generosity and consideration. This is a place of learning, encouragement and inspiration. 
 

Today we are going to look at 

Francisco Goya.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters.
He was born March 30, 1746 and died April 16, 1828. He studied painting from age 13 under José Luzán y Martínez and moved to Madrid to study with Anton Raphael Mengs. He married Josefa Bayeu in 1773. Goya became a court painter to the Spanish Crown in 1786 and this early portion of his career is marked by portraits of the Spanish aristocracy and royalty, and Rococo-style tapestry cartoons designed for the royal palace.

His art went from this style, 

 

 To this dark style.

He had a severe and undiagnosed illness in 1793 that left him deaf, after which his work became progressively darker and more pessimistic. His later easel and mural paintings, prints, and drawings appear to reflect a bleak outlook on personal, social, and political levels and contrast with his social climbing which was extensive. 

There is so much history on Goya that I figured this would be the best way to tell it. Ya know, much better than I could.

 

Or this. 

That's it for now.

I hope you watched the videos.  

 

I will be joining Gillena    

It's time to show me your art. 
Nicole

Friday Face OFF

 

Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your face art.

You know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, photography, drawings, paintings, AI. There just needs to be a face in your blog post, a link back to my blog and please use the image below. 

Thank you.

I need to sit down and draw, but I have another special order so it will have to wait a bit. People do like Halloween. 

 Also the last 2 days we have had to turn on the heat to take the morning chill off the house. Then today we get this in the shade. We don't hit 80° in summer, so weird for Oct. 

  

 I needed some clay faces for my order.  I pulled my molds out and then realized I had some faces made. Somewhere.

I did find them, ya know right where I left them last year.

These are old and some of you may remember them.

 

Some are made with molds some made by hand and then I make a mold for them 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These don't have faces but they are the spirit pieces I use to embellish art.

 

 

 

 

Here is some pretty art from Pinterest.

 

Now for some features.
Carola 

 

Kwarkito 

 

I'll be joining Gillena

 

Now it's time to show me your face.

Nicole  

T Tuesday

 

 Hi Everyone!

 Today is Tuesday and that means a day with Elizabeth and Bleubeard.

 

The other day my friend called and asked if we could meet up the next day. This is my monthly group of ladies. I said sure. I also thought I have nothing to bring. We all bring a little something to munch on.  I checked my pantry and there was a box of white cake mix. 

 

 Perfect. I put that into a bowl then added a pint of my home canned applesauce. I make it chunky. I stirred that up.

 

Then put the mixture into large muffin pan and added some streusel into each muffin.

The girls loved them. 
 

 

This is the way to make muffins. They are so moist and OMG good.

 

Mr. M. has been doing really well so what does he get when he dose well with the CKD eating? You know it, Pizza. I don't put sauce on it just a bit of grapeseed oil over the dough.

 

Last week I got into my car and noticed that there was a crack clear across the windshield at the very bottom of the glass. Are you kidding me? Thank the gods we have glass coverage. My insurance likes to deal with Safelite. Fine by me. Of course the main office is in Eugene but as advertised they came out to my house.

 

 

Getting the glue cut.

 

The young man was very good and so precise. 

 

It took less than 2 hours and he was done. 

 

I'm very impressed with Safelite and will always use them if needed. 

 

We are also getting the house ready for winter. Mr. M. has the gutters cleaned. They gather so much sand and leaves. He also washed the outsides of them. Living on the Pacific coast there is so much moss and mold and icky that gathers on homes. And lets not forget an old birds nest. 

 

Mr. M. got it all spic n pan.

 

My drink for today is,

Good ol' water.

 

 

Have a great Tuesday everyone!

Nicole 

 

Monster Monday

 Welcome to 

The start to a new week. It feels like this month is flying by.

Here are some monsters for today.

 

These aren't mine. I couldn't resist the eyeballs though.  

 

 

Here are some beautiful aliens. 

 

and some alien landscapes. 

 

That's it for now. 

Have a great Monday.

 

 Nicole