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This was the first time I tried making a maquette of a character head, after reading about doing that in "Imaginative Realism" by @[email protected] .
I chose a red-eyed green tree frog, and then drew frogs dancing "The Nutcracker" ballet. As promised, having the sculpted head made drawing frogs from different angles much, much easier. How the eyeballs sit on the head would have been really hard to imagine, without a model to help.
Ink and gouache, finished digitally. I combined all the art into a fabric pattern, that I sell on Spoonflower. Because why not.
#art #illustration #drawing #gouache #ink #Nutcracker #KidLitArt #SugarPlumFairy #TreeFrog #frog #frogs #dance #dancing #christmas #fabric #funny #illustrator #ballet #humor #artist #amphibians
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#WorldFrogDay: Catalina Zunie (#Zuni #Pueblo master potter, 1862-1949)
Olla (Water Jar) w/tadpoles, #frogs, dragonflies, & birds, c.1920
"Much of the imagery...originates from medicine-jar decorations. Toads & frogs were symbols of abundance and healing to the Zuni, likely due to their intimate connections to water & the transformations inherent to their life cycles. The knife-wing birds & dragonflies reflect the traditional themes of water, air, & the cycle of nature.”
https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/4504/Water-Jar/
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#WorldFrogDay: Catalina Zunie (#Zuni #Pueblo master potter, 1862-1949)
Olla (Water Jar) w/tadpoles, #frogs, dragonflies, & birds, c.1920
"Much of the imagery...originates from medicine-jar decorations. Toads & frogs were symbols of abundance and healing to the Zuni, likely due to their intimate connections to water & the transformations inherent to their life cycles. The knife-wing birds & dragonflies reflect the traditional themes of water, air, & the cycle of nature.”
https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/4504/Water-Jar/
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#WorldFrogDay + #WorldSparrowDay ivory #nestukes from the @walters_museum:
1. Skull and Toad
Ohara Mitsuhiro, Edo, early-mid 19th c.
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/36961/skull-and-toad/
2. Stylized Fukurasusume ("fat sparrow")
after Masanao of Kyoto, Edo, early 19th c.
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/13711/netsuke-of-a-stylized-fukurasusume-fat-sparrow/
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#MosaicMonday special for #WorldFrogDay:
A #frog chilling on a lotus leaf surrounded by curious (hungry?) waterfowl in a Nilotic scene, #Roman #mosaic from the House of the Faun, #Pompeii, 1st century BCE.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli collection. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scena_nilotica,_da_casa_del_fauno_a_pompei,_s.n..JPG
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More #WorldFrogDay accessories:🐸💍
2 carnelian #frog rings from New Kingdom #Egypt, w/ stylized Hathor head incised on bottom of each (in later dynasties Hathor assumed Heqet's role as a goddess of fertility & childbirth).
1 Finger Ring with Frog
Egyptian, c. 1550-1295 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th dynasty)
gold, carnelian
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/34901/finger-ring-with-frog/
2 Finger Ring with a Frog
Egyptian, 1550-1279 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th-early 19th dynasty)
carnelian, gold lining
https://art.thewalters.org/detail/32465/finger-ring-with-a-frog/
[Walters Art Museum]
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Today is both #WorldFrogDay and #WorldSparrowDay so here is #Swallow and #Frog at a Party by Teisai Hokuba (#Japan, 1771–1844), #woodblock print (sumizuri-e), ink on paper, 18 x 21.3 cm (7 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.), Museum of Fine Arts Boston collection: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/533328
Anna Klinkner
