The rainbow mermaid .... aceo 04/01/2013

The today's aceo is "The rainbow mermaid"

The Rainbow Mermaid - Feminine ACEO - 04/01/2013

Very often artists have one or more main topics (mine for instance are women and motherhood)  and others less frequent but not for that less important that every now and then came along.
One of them for me is the mermaid figure. I've always found this character to be absolutely fascinating!
When I was a little girl I would really much beeing able to be a mermaid and exploring the deep sea, not to speak about fantastic strange body and very loooooong hair ;-)
Not so much to have with the Andersen's little mermaid which I find terribly sad (well Andersen wasn't exactly a funny writer...). I saw her sculpture when I was leaving in Denmark few years ago.
I must say I was a bit disappointed about the Harry Potter 's rapresentation in the Goblet of Fire, where they look ugly and quite dangerous.
Of course my mermaids have been influenced by motherhood as well.
Enjoy!

***********************************************************************************

L'aceo d'aujourd'hui s'appelle  "The rainbow mermaid" (La sirène arc en ciel )
Souvent les artistes ont un ou plusieurs thèmes principales (Pour moi ce sont par exemple le maternage et le féminin) et d'autres thèmes moins fréquents makis pas pour autant moins importants qui sortent périodiquement. Pour moi un c'est la figure de la sirène que j'ai toujours trouvé forte fascinant!
Quand j’étaie petite j'aurais adoré être une sirène et pouvoir explorer les profondeurs marines, sans parler d'avoir un corps  magnifique et des superbes chevaux tréééééééééééééés longue ;-).  
Pas beaucoup à voir avec la petite sirène d'Andersen que je trouve  très tristounet (mais bon, Andersen n’était pas non plus un marrant). J'ai pu voir sa sculpture quand je vivais au Danemark il y a quelque années en arrière.
Je dois aussi dure que j'étais déçue de la voir dans Harry Potter   dans the Goblet of Fire (La coup de feu), ou elle sont vraiment super moches et terriblement dangereuses.
les miennes ont bien sur des influences du maternage et autres.
A bien tôt!

The little mermaid - oil painting - Aix en Provence (France) 2010 - Gioia Albano

 

 

Pregnant Mermaid - oil painting - Mimet (France) 2011 - Gioia Albano

23/12/2012 "Six Tulips and half" from The 365 ACEOs project / Projet : 365 jours avec un ACEO

Hi!

I love tulips, they are between my favourite flowers (with poppies and sunflowers).
They're strong, fierce and plenty of colors, and even someone like myself not so much into gardening is able to grown them and enjoy them ;-)
They also remind me about Denmark where I spent 4 years (two of my children are born there) because there were lots of them in the botanic garden (to visit in Copenhagen!) and they're not afraid of cold wheather.
So my today's aceo is on them. I already paint some big tulips as well and I can feel that neither these won't be the last one. One of the tulips has been cut of from the wind ;-)

***********************************************************************************

Hello!
J'aime les tulipes, ils sont parmi mes fleurs préférés (avec les coquelicot et les tournesols)
Ils sont résistent, costauds, fiers et avec beaucoup de couleurs et même quelqu'un comme moi qui n'as pas exactement le pouce vert  peut le faire pousser et les admirer ;-)
Ils me rappellent aussi du Danemark eu j'ai vécue pendant 4 ans (deux de mes enfants sont nés là bas) car il n'y avais beaucoup dans le jardins botanique (à visiter à Copenhague) et ils sont des fleurs qui n'ont pas trop peur du froid.
Voilà pourquoi mon aceo d'aujourd'hui c'est sur les tulipes. je n'ai déjà peint des grands des tulipes et je pense que ces "petits" ne vont pas être les derniers non plus.
Vous remarquerez que un des tulipes a était coupé....par le vent ;-)

Six tulips and half - ACEO - 23/12/2012

Introducing my painting "Woman of sword"

Hi there!

I'd like the idea to tell you a bit more about my paintings and the story behind them.
This one is called "Woman of swords" but the real title is in italian "Donna di spade".

Woman of sword - Donna di spade cm 50x61

 
I painted this in june 2008 when i was leaving in wonderful Copenhagen (or København, Denmark)

At that time I liked  to paint in a sort of monochromatic way. I choosed blue for this one because it kind of reminded me about the sword's blade.
Now, this artwork has a double story with him.

First :
the "Woman of sword" is born as part of a collection of four paintings inspired to the italian playing cards from Naple.
There are four suits : swords (spade), cups( coppe), money (denari/coins), bastoni (clubs).
In the original card she doesn't look so warrior but then it cames artistic interpretation, I liked to paint her like a combative woman (of cours not all combatives women need a real sword ;-))

Second :
This  painting was lost for few months in 2010 because a fake exhibition supposedly hold in Senegal (At the time I did a FB page about it but this shame cheating "festival" is still on the web, artists watch out!).
It was back with others 3 paintings after almost 5 months.
In the end I was really lucky but  during the period it was lost I felt really bad.Now I'm much more carefull!

What this painting inspire to you? You're welcome to leave a comment!
Gioia

How did/do you stay active during pregnancy (from twitter)

Question today on twitter from @fprmotherhood (http://www.thefprprogram.com/fr/), one member that I follow.
"How did/do you stay active during pregnancy?"

Uhmmmm.....
I must say that in all my three pregnancy the worse of it was coping with morning sickness...knowing that actually it was the whole day not just in the morning and they got worse a each pregnancy.

First pregnancy : I didn't do that much. I was still working in a office and I was leaving in Denmark. So a little bike (there you can easily bike everywhere!) and some pilates in the end when I got in maternity leave.

Second pregnancy (still in Denmark) : I had a two years old girl keeping me busy...and we were renting at a third floor without lift almost until the end of the pregnancy (then we changed appartment so put doing boxes and a moving as well ;-))
I biked a lot with the two years old in the back of my seat ....that has been usefull since I putted on less weight than first time.

Third pregnancy : more sickness and harder (the whole 9 months argh!!), more children (at the time 4 years old and 2 years old) to keep me busy, less weight putted on ;-)...and basically that was it. And yes, a bit of a walk, south of France is very good for that. It has been the pregnancy where I putted less weight on, of course.

I definitly could use some yoga but honestly it was impossible just to find the time to do all since I also kept the painting going on.

So my recipe would be : having already children (if is your first pregnancy you can borrow one or two from relatives/friends ;-) ), walking, biking if you leave in a place where you can do it safely and some gentle exercise (yoga,pilates or others) if you can.

Take care!
Gioia


In the belly - 2008 - 50x61 available