Painting

The Monarch of the Glen

The Monarch of the Glen is the largest painting that I have ever painted – as far as I know the canvas that I used was A0 thats a massive 33.1 x 46.8 inches! I painted it in acrylic after the original by Edward Landseer in 1851. Not a lot of people realise that the Red Deer stag that features in Landseer’s original painting is in fact misnamed and is not a ‘monarch’ at all, but a ‘royal’. That’s because there are only twelve points (or tines) to his antlers, a ‘monarch’ is classed as having sixteen.

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Indie

Indie in Gouache

A golden retriever who belongs to the same family as the black Labradors Hattie and Holly.

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After Norman Rockwell

Rosie the riveter
Saturday Evening Post cover May 29, 1943.

Norman Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter received mass distribution on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on Memorial Day, May 29, 1943. Rockwell’s illustration features a brawny woman taking her lunch break with a rivet gun on her lap, beneath her a copy of Hitler’s manifesto, Mein Kampf and a lunch pail labelled “Rosie”. Rockwell based the pose to match Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling painting of the prophet Isaiah.

Rockwell’s model was a Vermont resident, then 19-year-old Mary Doyle Keefe who was a telephone operator near where Rockwell lived, not a riveter. Rockwell painted his “Rosie” as a larger woman than his model, and he later phoned to apologize. The Post’s cover image proved hugely popular, and the magazine loaned it to the U.S. Treasury Department for the duration of the war, for use in war bond drives.

After Rockwell

Text courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum

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