Between Dreams & Daylight: October 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009

Between dreams & daylight: needle & thread

needle & thread

In progress, oil on canvas underpainting.
Updates forthcoming.

Your thoughts are welcomed.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Thomas Groth 'blue ribbon' Painting Oil, 2009 - Premiere Artist Portfolio at absolutearts.com

Friday, October 23, 2009

J.W. Waterhouse

I've been studying Waterhouse's work since 1968. Most are familiar with his paintings but the paintings are all based on exceptional draughtsmanship. One may have a "song to sing" but without the skills to sing it it remains a mere shadow of what it could be. Here are some drawings by Mr. Waterhouse. Also is a shot of some of my initial drawings (cartoons they are called) that were transformed into oil paintings. Cheers, tg

Monday, October 19, 2009

Japanese Tea Ceremony

oil on canvas

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Beauty

http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/t/tgroth/

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Wildflower- ecu

starbucks

work in progress

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Suite for unaccompanied cello (angel)

Thursday, October 1, 2009

"Less is more"

Mermaid oil on canvas painted 2009

Labels: beauty. art. romance, classic, dream, fine art, Henri, light, oil painting, painting, poetry, portraits, Pre-Raphaelites, quiet, sensual, simplcity, Vermeer, Victorian, Waterhouse, women

: Name: painter; Location: Florida, United States

I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a better light than any light that ever shone - in a land that no-one can define or remember, only desire - and the forms divinely beautiful" - Edward Coley Burne-Jones Thomas Groth is an uncommon figure artist. A classically trained draftsman, Groth works in pastel, oil, charcoal or prismacolor. His paintings recall the lush colors and figure work of the Pre-Raphaelites. The figures exist neither in the past nor the present; they are archetypes occupying a timeless world. Here is a world of tranquility, harmony, dreams and dreamers. Figures of sensuous innocence live here - geishea, mermaid, angels and daydreamers. The art bids one to stop for a moment, to push pause and then move on refreshed-a respite in an often overloaded, time-poor world. Groth's references points are primarily late 19th and early 20th century painters and movements including J.W. Waterhouse, Robert Henri, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Newlyn School.

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