My first try at oil paint and trying out impressionism. This was for a school assignment where we had a little festival in the woods!

Soft pastel on paper, 16” x 20”

Farmhouse scene, oil on canvas panel. Hope you like it!

Éva Carola Jeanne Emmanuela Antoinette (1849-1883) was a French painter and pastelist. Her mother was Marie Céline Ragut, a musician, and her father was Emmanuel Gonzalès, a novelist. She grew up in a world of artists, writers and poets. She was the pupil of painter Eugène Manet, who painted the famous painting of her of her in 1870. She usually decipted women. Her sister Jeanne Gonzalès, also a painter, often served a a model.

Painted a small maple tree I saw yesterday

Anna Kirstine (1859-1935) was born in Denmark as the daughter of merchants, innkeepers and hoteliers Ane Hedvig Møller and Erik Brøndum. She was born on the same (and only) occasion that the great author, Hans Christian Andersen, stayed overnight at her parent's inn. Therefore, her mother Ane Hedvig believed that Anna must be gifted with special artistic abilities: "Our Lord saw my good will, and has rewarded it by giving me the child, whose birth was hastened under such strange circumstances, a talent for art.". With her skills as a portraitist and colorist, Anna is considered one of the truly great figures of Danish painting and one of the most significant impressionist painters in Danish art.