Melissa Ann Lambert’s Neighborhood

New portrait, "Anya" 5x7"...

Anya

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and I know you are probably sick of me posting pictures of Milkshake -- no wait, I take it back -- NO ONE is ever sick of Milkshake, and if you are, someone must have urinated in your eye drops or contact solution because that's the ONLY way you could ever find pain in viewing all that is white and fuzzy. Anyways I'm only posting this photo because I thought it was funny to see him clearly trying to imitate an old painting of mine...

Imitatingart

Seriously, he was trying to reach his back leg, he had a slew of poses he was trying out. What a weirdo.

I'm becoming convinced that most Americans simply do not know any other label for centuries past other than "Victorian" for anything. Or once and a while they refer to Georgian era dress and decor as "Marie Antoinette looking". Now I've only become nutty about costume/decor history in the past decade, but you would still think between the  Queen Elizabeth movies, the Jane Austen movies, and The Tudors series people would stop referring to every painting I do as Victorian!

I don't do Victorian, I can't dig it. I can dig Edwardian at times -- it brings to mind Boldini, Edward Gorey imagery and Luisa Casati -- but I don't do Victorian in any painting, ever. I may have done one or two Regency period costumes, and only one Georgian (though I used to draw Georgian period scenes a lot in high school).

What I do for the most part is Renaissance or Elizabethan. Mostly basing off English or the more subdued Spanish style of dressing at the time. Like this, or this. And what I do enjoy at times too is the Stuart era, as in King James Stuart. Or maybe more familiar would be Louis XIV "the Sun King".

So just FYI...
Edwardian, Victorian, Regency, Georgian (a vast period but very "Marie Antoinette looking") Stuart, Elizabethan, late medieval/pre-Tudor which would be the start of the Medici family, and Richard the III sort of deal.

... but for the KILLERS song they had chosen to support the last olympic message (pretty cool...)
(>> then you got the choice : add or video clip?)

I live in a city of about a half a million people. It's not the largest city in the world nor is it the smallest. But despite these few facts we allow ponies and a few chickens too! This is the pony that lives down the street from us, in urban Portland.