Skull Painting From Dad

Henry Chavez must be one heck of a Dad. We've had the pleasure of presenting this skeleton couple painting that he did for one daughter and now he's here again with a gift for a different daughter.

What a wonderful Dad to give the gift of skulls.  Not only is the painting great, it's capped off with a nice bone carved frame.  I think I know one Dad who deserves some new paints this June 16th.  Thanks for the great work, Henry, and thanks again for sharing it, Kristina!

Shadow Series Skull

Artist Richelle told us: " This oil on canvas piece from my Shadows Series called 'Talisman' was done to show the bright side of the dark side."

Sunny C says:

I love that this skull has eyebrows, we don't get to see eyebrows on skulls too often. Perhaps this is the lighter side that we need to see more of in the future. Thank you for sharing your work with us.

Coronation of the Skeletons

Wolfgang Sangmeister from Hamburg is back. He created "this painting is 140 x 100 cm acrylics on canvas after the oil painting from Velázques."

I wasn't familiar with the painting inspiration, so I searched for it. It is "The Coronation of the Virgin" by Diego Velázques. If you are familiar with Christian iconography, you will probably recognize Mary in the center, with God to the right, and Jesus to the left. The little skulls at the bottom are the cherubs in the original. I'm not big on religious paintings, so of course I prefer the skull version. It's remarkable how similar the two paintings are. Wolfgang's version is simply beautiful.