Amy Bernays

Grmpa's House, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2014

Somehow it is easier to overpopulate a little painting and get away with it that in a big canvas. This little painting is crowded with life. The menagerie is my daughter’s depiction of her world, the animals within it. It is blued together with the depiction of a small crowd of children looking at the precious thing. We can half make out their forms. Still a little undefined, as things are when you are only half grown up. I like to paint the happy in life. Looking for those thoughts or moments that bring me joy and define my life. I paint my children. Not just their visage, but their being. Their play, their imaginative world as well as their real world. In this series I have the kids paint...

The kids snuck into my studio, this started as a painting they did of me. After homeschooling all spring, it is like I am their whole world. My unintentional features where the borde...

This comes from a series of work on parenting. I pop in front of the kids canvases and pens and paint. I then work onto those canvases. Sometimes they work into mine. this is a g...

This is a small gray and pink painting. The bucolic subject of a little boy with his pig and father is referenced with the bright pink felt tip pen I used for the initial sketch. Sec...

"I grew up as the middle of five kids. We would yearly visit my grandmother in Alabama and later in Tennessee. She was an artist and her house was full of paintings, which was format...

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MAGDALENA SPASOWICZ Studied painting under prof. Jan Cybis and graphic arts with prof. Tadeusz Kulisiewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She received her diploma in 1953. He...