Favorite Subject

My favorite subject is Luna. I must have over twenty art pieces featuring her.

Marvelous tribute, masterful drawing skills, Shana!

Nature.

Thank you Marlene!!!

@Chuck, you can post an example if you'd like to!
@Jim, anything specific in nature? Do you have one season that you favor over the others? Great piece by the way!

Shana, so many of my inspired renderings are of my beautiful spouse. We are on a fantastic journey together and I appreciate her tremendously.

I have depicted this woman more than once, I think because I love her hair.

Shana - I can take inspiration from any natural subject... landscapes, animals etc. The only season I dislike is winter to some degree.

Shana, I am blown away by your rendering of your father. Kudos! As for me, my favorite subject is waterfowl and wading birds. I venture off once in a blue moon but go right back to my herons, pelicans and egrets. I just love everything about them.

Shana, tell your dad I said "happy birthday".

Two of my favorite subjects are southwest landscapes and old cars and trucks so this acrylic painting meets both criteria.



Bill Tomsa

http://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

vintage and old time stuff. or mechanical steampunk stuff.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Venice Italy

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One of my two murals on Vincent van Gogh. Selfies and other portraits.

Over the years, I've had a lot of favorite subjects....but my raptors stand out as the least loved by others and most loved by me.
I painted over all but two of them. And yes, I cried...but, I needed the canvas.

I still own this one, those she's living in the garage these days. Sometimes, I turn her upsidedown and she looks like a tropical fish.

What???? I love your raptors Marlene! Wild Thang is one of my favorites! Yes sometimes hard decisions and sadness, one has to do what they have to do. Still sad though.

Shana - that is some outstanding work. I love your new self portrait too.
Wishing your father a wonderful birthday, lucky man he is to have a loving daughter such as you.

I seem to have a fondness for bridges, on of them being my favorite Newburgh - Beacon Bridge. I am working my way up & down the Hudson river, will have a gallery of them soon.

Sydne,
I painted them while I was being repped by a very fine gallery system in the Southwest....I think I just painted them 25 years too soon...prints sell very well these days but i couldn't sell an original to save my life!
I have such a love for Feeling Hackled (second row, right)..I may have to pain a redux of her.....

The myth of forbidden fruit, tree of life and tree of knowledge and death all play a heavy role in many of my works.

Oh you have to Marlene, she is marvelous!

So much wonderful talent here! By far, my favorites are the Great Blue Heron and pelicans.

Wonderful responses everybody!! Sorry I haven't popped into the thread much, I had to work nights last night and I'm back to work again first thing this morning so I haven't been able to get in the computer. Keep sharing!! I will be back when I get home from work to respond more to specific posts!

Since the early 70's I have made the Ladies Of Pigalle my only subject. I have created over 400 and I am still creating them.

Your work? Great execution.

One of my favorite places to capture.

Shana, love your work especially your portraits of your father and your self portrait.

For me, it's any subject related to the sea.

Favorite Subject??

Are you kidding me

My life seems to be devoted to One Subject

VULTURES



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And now, the weather is finally nice, so I'm on my way outside, to produce MORE Vultures for the upcoming season

I love horses, they're my favorite animal by far.

I'm not sure what my favorite subject is.... (eye roll)

Spring wildflowers

Such an interesting array of subjects here!!


@Drew, that' is awesome that your draw so much inspiration from your loved one, I always say that my husband is my muse lol even though I don't paint him half as much as I paint my dad lol
@Sydne, lovely, I think vision is my favorite!!
@Jim, I agree, I love the changing seasons, and draw inspiration from each, though I think winter drags on way longer than it should.
@Phyllis, Thank you, that's an honor coming from you. I love your birds, you have certainly mastered them!!!
@Bill, thank you!! Love that piece, thanks for sharing!!
@Mike, I find vintage and antique things to be inspirational too.
@Jack, I would LOVE to visit Venice someday, I have barely even left my home state lol. Beautiful work!!
@David, can't go wrong with Van Gogh!!
@Marlene, I couldn't imagine painting over those!! That must have been heart breaking!!
@Janine, thank you!! I truly appreciate that!! I think I have found my new niche in colored pencils and I am really pleased to see where it has been bringing me. Very cool, I can't wait to see more of your bridges. Bridges really do bring something to a composition, and you execute them beautifully.
@Drew, great theme, really takes the viewer to a deeper place and makes on think.
@Fraida, gorgeous work!! Thank you for sharing!!
@Monsieur Danl, thank you. Love your work!!
@Bonfire Photography, I can see why that is a favorite of yours, I love old barns and that one is beautiful. If I lived near it I would probably have painted it multiple times by now myself lol.
@Janice, thank you, those are my favorite two pieces right now!! I have to agree with you that there is something about the sea. So inspirational!!
@Roger, you have that market cornered!! Lol I love you and your vultures, you shed a wonderful light on such a misunderstood creature. You open eyes my friend!!
@Jim, I am with you there, such majestic creatures!! I love to draw and paint them. As a teen that's all I would ever draw, I need to get back into it more soon. Such wonderful animals, there is nothing else like them!
@Joseph, lol, Gee, I wonder...lol
@Ram, gorgeous captures, thanks for sharing, I love wild flowers, they just seem to scream happiness!!

I won't bother to reply to this obvious question. }:-D

Changed my mind:

Lol was wondering where you were Greg! Lol thanks for posting!!

Hi Shana.....Dad's are so very special. I love my dad. Wonderful portraits of your father, Shana. My favorite subject by far is............. dogs. Every print I sell in my FAA page, a portion of my proceeds will be donated to Animal Rescue. They so very much need our help right now. So many animals and not enough forever homes.

I have quite a few Taughannock Falls pictures, so that would probably be one of my favorite subjects. I think I have enough that there really is no reason to go back but somehow I always wind up there again once in a while.However I would say the fall season itself is more of a favorite subject.

This is a painting I did last year on a vacation return trip to Arizona. It is the beginning of a trail that leads up "Telegraph Pass" on South Mountain (in the background). I use to visit and paint at this site which is a couple of miles from where my wife and I lived for 12 years. In fact painting number two is the same cactus painted about 17 years ago.





Bill Tomsa

http://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

Shana R., as others have mentioned, I must agree about the absolutely stunning level of mastery in your drawing.

In total contrast to your precision (where favorite subject matter is concerned), ... my favorite subject would have to be fluid dynamic flow - random, unpredictable, incapable of being captured, except as a momentary static impression of an always moving painting ... painting itself. I won't use up space posting images here, but just click on my profile and visit any of the galleries with the word "fluidism" in it.

The girl can flat ... out ... draw ! Blaine L., are you tuned in here?

Your Drawings are amazing, I love all fairytale themes, it takes me to a world of magic and fantasy that I love expressing.

@Fiona, Yes dads are very special, as are dogs. Beautiful work and wonderful what you are doing to help animals!!
@Mark, it seems like a very inspirational place, I can see why you always end up back there.
@Bill, very cool!! I would love to visit Arizona someday. I have never seen the desert in person. It's on my bucket list.
@Robert, thank you so much. I really appreciate it! I really think I have found myself in colored pencil work.
@Tiago, thank you!! I too like fairytale work. So much fun and imagination involved.