Yummy People

I love painting people who are as yummy on the inside as out. Thank you Salvatore Infantino for a great life sitting.

Salvatore
Oil on Linen
Via Palette Knife
16x20"
By Johanna Spinks
www.johannaspinks.com

Going Golden, California Art Club Gold Medal Show

The Homecoming
By Johanna Spinks
Going golden - the prestigious California Art Club Annual Gold Medal Juried Show opens tonight and I am honored to have this palette knife portrait of mine of my daughter in some very dazzling art company.

View the entire show here:
http://www.californiaartclub.org/104th-annual-gold-medal-juried-exhibition-and-sale/

Painting A Queen

Queen Elizabeth, II
By William Dargie

Did you know the Queen of England, Elizabeth the Second, is the most reproduced face in history with over with over 100 portrait paintings of her? This portrait by William Dargie, 1912 -2003, nicknamed "The Wattle", after the flowers at her shoulder, is her favorite. It was painted after a 1954 official royal trip to Australia which included sitting for a formal portrait. She liked the portrait so much that she asked for a copy of it be made for her. It now hangs in her private residence with the Queen still telling folks it's her favorite. Few portraits painted of the Queen stay in her possession. 

I found this really interesting You Tube showing many of her portraits. Wonderful how the painted portrait has recorded her life from young girl to elder Royal Sovereign. I won't say which portraits I don't think did the Queen justice.

All I do know it The Wattle is fantastic. All that yellow, so beautifully handled. The Queen looks like I will forever think of her.