From the Artist: "My mother is a devout Catholic, as my grandmother was. I wanted to give her something in return for all her love and support, and I could only think of painting her a bible. It was a great challenge to copy a master and it took me a long time to achieve it, but I am happy with the result and she deserves every single stroke on it.
From the Painting Guide: When people think of Van Gogh, they tend to think of his later works, when he switched to brighter colors on his palette. rather than his early works, dominated by earth colors. Van Gogh described his painting of the bible in a letter to his brother, Theo, in late October 1885: "I send you a still-life of an open -- so a broken white -- Bible bound in leather, against a black background, with a yellow-brown foreground, with a touch of citron yellow."
With the story behind it, and the love with which you painted it, you've really made his painting your own. I trust your mother liked it!
From the Painting Guide: When people think of Van Gogh, they tend to think of his later works, when he switched to brighter colors on his palette. rather than his early works, dominated by earth colors. Van Gogh described his painting of the bible in a letter to his brother, Theo, in late October 1885: "I send you a still-life of an open -- so a broken white -- Bible bound in leather, against a black background, with a yellow-brown foreground, with a touch of citron yellow."
With the story behind it, and the love with which you painted it, you've really made his painting your own. I trust your mother liked it!