To Ellen


This blog is made to the honor of my grandmother Ellen Elisabeth Thomsen who was a modern woman .
She was born in Randers in Denmark 1895 and died in Copenhagen 1976.
She had long salmon red hair down to her hips. It was braided and put up with lots of hairpins to make it look short.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

red hair in full or half profile





Carl Forup








Anders Zorn









Toulouse Lautrec



I love the background and the way he used the blue line,
 sometimes it's shadow and sometimes reflection. 




Renoir
"Suzanne"









Max Buri






Albert Edelfeldt









Lautrec






Toulouse Lautrec
"Madame Lily Grenier"







Jan Thoorop






Anna Baklane
Latvian Contemporary








Childe Hassam
"Against the light"


Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann
Re blogged from the site with the ugly owner stamp





Paula Modersohn Becker
"Farmer woman"




Sandy's
"Perdita"








Fredrick Leighton









Sophie Anderson







Slewensky










Ferdinand Kitt











Carl Larsson








Kinghofer





Guy Pene de Bois







Harold Gilman
Re blogged from Abacus Gallery
Harold Gilman the English artist is one of my favorite painters, he is an outstanding colourist . The light and shadows in his paintings are  glowing. I don't know any other painter who measure up to this knowledge when it comes to creating color harmonies.He is also one of the few who uses pink .



Harold Gilman








Harold Gilman
"Portrait of Sylvia Gosse"



Do compare the 3  Gilman portraits  and look how the  harmonies changes temperature.
Compare him to the other artists in this post and look how he color wise is on a totally different
 and much more advanced level. It is like music some composers make harmonies that are outstanding
 and in a way unrealistic because they are so fare from what everyone else do.
No automation in it, this is created rather than recreated.






Artist not Known






Edmund Blair Leighton









Sir Frances Dicksee
"Portrait  of Agnes"












Elisabeth Sonrel










Jules Ballavoine








Anna Lee Stacey
"So Long"






Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Redhaired musicians


Betalan Karlovszky












Thomas Wilmer Dewing
"Lut"










Malcolm Leipke










Henry Holiday
"The small duet"










Toulouse Lautrec
"Madame Juliette Pascal"










William Hollman Hunt









Frances David Millet
"Old Harmonies"








Renoir
From Art Institute of Chicago








William Merritt Chase
"Mrs Meig at the houseorgan"











Poul Friis Nybo
Danish Artist 1869-1929











Chen Yefei










Fredrick Childe Hassam
The sonata









Theo van Rysselbergh






Elanor Colburn








Artist Unknown










Frederic Soulacroix













 Bertalan Karlovszky
" Woman playing"












Sir Francis Dicksee
"Duet"








Sir Francis Dicksee 





Charles Edward Halle'

Francesca and her Lute