This parade was for the ladies. As the first Gondolier made his way towards the town you could feel the excitement build. I made this painting in 1993 and in 1994 John and I drove to Washington and delivered this and 6 more paintings and ceramics to the Chase family home. They have a beautiful, modern home decorated in all of my colours and everything looked amazing!!! We helped them hang all the paintings and this one was hung above their bed. Only one piece broke on the trip but I brought an extra painting and it all worked out. My submission for Illustration Friday's "parade" is titled "Gondoleer".
copyright 1993 Valerie Walsh
28 comments:
Beautiful and atmospheric as ever, Val - love it!
What a lucky guy! =) Great share and wonderful piece.
Wow! Val, this is amazing!!! Absolutely love the colors. You are an artistic genius!
Wonderful... I can only imagine what the home you delivered this masterpiece to looked like with all these colors. You are amazing!
:D
a gondoleer in Amsterdam?
Delicious!
The buildings are alive! I swear it!
Hi Valerie!.. long time without visiting your beautiful blog (I know it is bad).. CA was wanderful for sure, I hope I can come back soon one more time.. =D
Really amazing piece!
What a lovely piece, Val! I love the colours!
Well how cool is that.... write a book Val... you are so interesting!
how wonderful having your art in their house.
I can walk up and down all over....really beautiful!
Happy Mother's day Valerie!
Ooooo - so beautiful! Love the colors and the mood that you created with this piece. It's wonderful.
Very interesting! I like all the movement, and the animated feel of this piece.
ohmygod val, i don't know if i could sleep with this over my bed. i'd want to be partying all night.
your colors here are amazing. andrea said it perfectly!
xoxo!
I love to live in that purple house! Really nice take on the theme! So dreamy......
Guess what... this reminds me of Melee Island (from Monkey Island VG)
Hee hee :D
a parade of valerie's paintings!wow! lucky lucky family!
Very cool color palette. I also like the apparent movement of the buildings--very trippy. Great job as always.
Love the colors, so rich. Believe it or not we have gondoliers here in Coronado, kinda crazy.
Love the point of view as well as the colors and your always wonderful houses!!! I almost feel as if I'm there!
beautiful - great composition, it really draws you in, and lovely colours of course.
You really make the shadows and light come alive in your work. Really well done!!
That fella sure has drawn a crowd... errr... maybe you drew him a crowd :) (ha ha) Very nice my friend!
Fantastic! Fantastic!
Jeepers, I've been such a bad blogger!
Okay, I love this one. Your night scene colors bowl me over every time!
They're house must be extra magical because it has your art in it ;)
Wonderful atmosphere!
My new favorite of yours...great perspective and really like the lighting and color matches on this one...
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