Hello hello from London! We came for a few days to attend the BAFTA Game Awards, of all things. My husband Kevin’s video game Tunic won two BAFTAS!!!!!
making the BAFTAs kiss on stage
I was really excited about it!!
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I could write an essay about how much my husband inspires me to be a better artist and a better person but I will keep it brief. This game was seven years in the making (the entire length of our relationship) and it’s incredible seeing all of these amazing people get this recognition.
Anyway - onto some cartoons!
I went to the National Gallery this week to paint some paintings, which might be my favourite thing in the world to do even though this was only my second time doing it. It’s amazing to me that the public has access to all this and it’s *free.* I also managed to forget my pencil case at my hotel room - luckily I still had my sketchbook and paints, and the gift shop sold pencils and art pens.
Here was a bunch of maximum 8-year-old children discussing a truly harrowing painting - Luca Giordano’s “Perseus Turning Phineas And His Followers Into Stone,” depicting Perseus waving around Medusa’s gross severed head to defeat his enemies. The kids were unfazed.
Diego Velasquez’s “The Toilet of Venus” - I liked this one because Venus appears to be staring straight at the viewer through the mirror
Johann Liss's "Judith In The Tent of Holofernes" - so badass, she has cut off his head and is putting it into a sack
Anthony Van Dyck's "Charity." I couldn't stop laughing while painting this because the description of the painting was all about how this was the physical manifestation of a great Christian virtue depicting Charity as a loving mother, but all I could see was an exhausted woman being clawed at by three babies.
Edouard Manet's "Eva Gonzalez." I liked how her own painting isn't in the gallery but a painting of her painting is. Good job everyone
Photographing Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Edouard Vuillard, “La Terasse at Vasouy”
Lastly, scenes from a bookstore.
Life’s good!
xo Zoe
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I really love your museum paintings! Can’t wait to go to a museum and do some sketches 🎨
Awesome!