"The Mother Lode" - 8" x 8" - oil on canvas - SOLD
Back in April, I completed a painting for Steve Worthington's Mouse Project (see above). I was honored to be a part of this wonderful adventure. The plan was to have 22 artists create paintings utilizing three of Steve's bronze mice, compile jpegs of the paintings into a beautiful book, then donate the proceeds from sales of this book to animal shelters. A truly worthy cause if you ask me. Below is an excerpt from Steve's own blog post on the subject:
"What's a WIN-WIN-WIN-WIN for 22 artists, you, me and a bunch of homeless animals in shelters?
The Mouse Project.
I never planned to call it that, people just started saying it.
And so it stuck.
In a nutshell, it's a book made up of 47 paintings, by 22 artists, each painting featuring one or more of my bronze mice, to benefit animal shelters.
Not wanting the fun to end there, I decided to see if the best painters I could find online might be coaxed into painting them so I could curate a book and donate the profits to animal shelters. I thought I'd start by asking only the best, not really sure what kind of response to expect. To my utter delight and disbelief the answers came back with a resounding, "YES"!
Top notch painter after top notch painter wanted in. So I dispatched a small army of mice to get their portraits painted! A PDF and a book are the end result. In the free PDF you'll only find 22 lower resolution images (one per painter).
There are over 60 high resolution images of 47 original paintings by 22 painters in the actual book. Hopefully it will sell like hot cakes and make a bunch of money for animal shelters.
In the PDF there are links for you to be transported to the artists website or blogs."
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Here are a few jpegs from the book featuring the work of some of the many gifted artists who contributed. If you'd like to see more of their work, clicking on their names takes you to their individual blogs:
Chris Beck
The book is available for sale for $49.45 through Lulu.com. If you're looking for a unique Christmas gift for a loved one and want to help out a few furry critters in the process, consider this lovely collection.
1 comments:
What fun! It's a great idea.
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