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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Haller Fountain, catified, Donna Bickley

My whimsical response to your challenge of using a media one is not used to using. I used Derwent Metallic Pencils and Caran d'Ache Supracolor soft colored pencils  - both water-soluble used with water mostly/
This scene is inspired by a bronze cast sculpture of Galatea (,Greek sea nymph) installed in Port Townsend, Washington. Behind the actual fountain. a high staircase leads to the Uptown area of the city. First shown at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago,  the original of this statue, a 7' woman with cherubs and sea creatures, at her feet, was purchased from a catalog in 1906 and has had several incarnations including a breast augmentation in the 1950's by someone who thought the original model was too flat-chested.






5 comments:

  1. I liked reading the history of this statue and have to say your rendition is very whimsical...love it.

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  2. Kind of liking working with colored pencils, these soft ones anyhwayh. Glad you enjoyed it, Ann!

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  3. What fun! I'm sure I must have seen this when we were there around fifteen years ago! Love your drawing of it!

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  4. /Thanks for the felinious comments (that's felicitoos catified)!

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