Ah Painting!

What would be our lives without paintings? Dull, bland, and sad.

Painting is the oldest way of expressing human creativity in the process of applying color to a surface with a brush, a sponge, a rock, a knife, or own fingers. It appeared long before writing, around 25,000-30,000 years BP (Before the Present), when  hunters painted pictures on cave walls.

Nevertheless, some historians claim that the paintings at the Grotte Chauvet in France, which are the oldest in the world, are approximately 32,000 years old.

From the prehistoric cave paintings to Claude Monet's Seine Basin with Argenteuil (1872) the visual arts have come a long way; the impact on us, however, is the same: admiration, pleasure, and joy.

 

And now my small collection of oil and watercolor paintings, and ink pen drawings. None are made by me. Some are originals some very good copies. Enjoy!