July Art Show - Red

For the month of July my Sidebar Art Gallery featured a collection called Red, inspired by the color featured at my wedding eighteen July's ago.



















Surfacing by Wayne Boucher

















Spirit of the Sockeye by Blaine Billman

















Black Mountain: B.C. by Emily Carr













Highbrush Cranberries - Cardinal by Robert Bateman



















Montreal 1852 by Cornelius Krieghoff



















Toll If You Please by Paul Peel











Jelly Shelf by Mary Pratt

















Lacing Up by Ken Danby
























June 1979 by Alex Colville

Shelley Munro says What a great selection, Julia. I like the Sockeye one and Lacing Up.

Akelamalu says Great pictures Julia I particularly like 'Spirit of the Sockeye' :)

May Art Show - The Prodigal Son's Return

Last month I was prompted to put this art show up on my Sidebar Art Gallery because of the third piece, The Prodigal Son in Modern Life: The Return by James Tissot. I have that one in my Scorpius picture file, which I gather like a storyboard. I grab lots of images from the web that put me in the middle of my story, and I have a picture file for all of my stories.

I also have several physical collages of my stories because my writers' group does collage workshops every now and then. I love doing them.

I was drawn to the art inspired by the Prodigal Son's story because of the dynamic between the father and son. Particularly for Scorpius, who isn't a Prodigal sort in any way, but who longs for his father because he was abandoned and never claimed.

In my Weekend Writer's Retreat serial fiction, this longing for a father figure finds refuge in his falconer master, Richolf.














Detail from The Prodigal Son by Duane Michals
























Prodigal son sketch by Charlie Mackesy



















The Prodigal Son in Modern Life: The Return by James Tissot

















The Return of the Prodigal Son by Guercino
























The Return of The Prodigal Son by Pompeo Batoni
























The Return of the Prodigal Son by J-L Stapleaux





















The Return of the Prodigal Son by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
























The Prodigal's Return by Edward John Poynter
























The Prodigal Son by Edward Stott

April Art Show - A Lady's Fan

Here is a look at the art I've featured this month in my Sidebar Art Gallery:



















The Fan by James Tissot

























Geisha With Orchids by Takayuki Harada
























Spanish Woman With Fan, a 1920's bookplate
























Victorian fashion plate, 1877, from An Englishwoman's domestic magazine
























Lady With the Fan by Charles Soulacroix
























The Japanese Fan by William Strang
























Donna con ventaglio (Woman with fan) by Gustav Klimt
























Lady With a Fan (or Portrait of Ann Charlotte Gaillard) by Mary Cassatt
























At the Ball by Berthe Morisot

March Art Show - The Art of the Celts

Here is a closer look at the art I've featured this month in my Sidebar Art Gallery:























Dragon Shield, a contemporary piece by Kevin Dyer
















The Tara Brooch of the Irish Insular style, 700 CE



















Bronze horse artifact, honoring Epona the Horse Goddess
















Pentre ifan, a Welsh cromlech












Celtic mermaid, from their mythological traditions























The Battersea shield, Iron Age ceremonial piece, 3rd to 1st century BCE














Celtic ring featuring Epona, the Horse Goddess, Late Iron Age






















Celtic zoomorphic art, from the rich animal symbolism of the Celtic culture
















The Ardagh Chalice, 8th century metalwork

January Art Show - Self-portrait

A brand new year, and the second year for my Sidebar Art Gallery. You'll find it in the sidebar of my main blog, A Piece of My Mind, to the right of my blog posts. I install a new show every month, along with information on each artist I've featured.

For today's Through the Opera Glasses, take a stroll through the January show, Self-portrait.























Self-portrait by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, 19th century Brazilian painter























Self-portrait by Zinaida Serebryakova, early 20th century Ukrainian painter























Self-portrait by Bertalan Székely, 19th century Hungarian Romantic painter























Self-portrait by Doris Clare Zinkeisen, 20th century Scottish costume designer and painter























Self-portrait by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, 19th century Italian neo-impressionist painter























Self-portrait by Angelica Kauffman, 18th century Swiss-Austrian neo-classical painter.



















Self-portrait/Desperate Man by Gustave Courbet, 19th century French Realist painter























Self-portrait by Marie Bashkirtseff, 19th century Russian diarist and painter























Self-portrait by Émile Friant, late 19th/early 20th century French Realist painter