Art On A Sunday

Good morning and welcome to Art On A Sunday. 

    This is a shared event where if you wish to participate write a blog naming it Art On A Sunday and link to this post. In comments share the link to your post in comments and I will then insert a link to you into the body of this blog.

   The sharing theme is art and crafts as well. Share yours or feature an artist or craftsman.

Barbara of Pinelands Treasures-Barbara is a real inspiration for my own art-crafts-she is so creative and talented-here she paints on a tea bag, and check the next posting as well-fun!


Wow here in the Ozarks the weather was just so fabulous-we hit at least 83 degrees here. I did my 5k fast walk on my property early and then posted my time to the Virtual Yellowstone Marathon-where all the proceeds go to the park.  
   It was so beautiful outdoors yesterday that I loaded firewood and then another couple and us went to Bennett Springs State Park-where the guys fished for trout and us gals went for a walk-a long walk along the river. So needless to say by the end of the day my muscles were screaming and still are lol 
    I loved every  minute of it though-sooooo I didn't get this post up last night and this morning plan to do a short one.
    I hope some of you out there who find this post will join in-I have always enjoyed a cup of tea on Sunday Mornings and reading and learning more about art.

American painters in the 1700s-I found this post here with many artists and paintings just click on them to enjoy. During this time period there were many portraits painted. I did find this one though and  I love the style

John Ritto Penniman
American, c. 1782-1841

Meetinghouse Hill, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1799

Oil on canvas
73.6 x 94 cm (29 x 37 in.)

I searched for a quilt made in the 1700s and I found this one made by Maratha Washington This link will take you to the blog post by Barbara Brackman-quilt historian

Happy Sunday-Art enables us to find ourselves, and lose ourselves at the same time (by Thomas Merton)

Update: I just saw this on facebook if I had seen earlier I would featured him as the artist today-artist paintings of Yellowstone

Art On A Sunday

Welcome to our very first post-hoping of many-Art On A Sunday

    To join in-please on your own blog title it Art On A Sunday and blog about any artist, art, craft, craftsman you wish to post about.  Link up to my post here and in comments on this post please share the url to that blog post-(Not blog url)  and I will insert a link to your post here in my blog post. 


Featuring a Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham

      Born 1811 and died 1879 was born in Virginia, later his parents with his siblings and others moved to Missouri. They settled near the Missouri River. His parents were well educated. His father died from malaria and his family had to move and settle across from the river.
     As a youngster he was always painting something and was inspired by an artist he met at a young age that had sketched  Daniel Boone.
    I found his life history and biography very interesting. This site  and also here was very informative. The second also shares many of his paintings.

     Mr. Bingham's "bread and butter" was made from his portraits and he painted many of them. He also later studied art in Paris and painted more of Missouri life and life on the frontier. He also lived during the civil war so some paintings were inspired by that time period. He wa also involved in politics.




self portrait



Missouri State Capitol 1848



Fur Traders Descending the Missouri 1845



Horse Thief 1852



Boatmen on the Missouri 1846



Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap  1851



Family Life on the Frontier 1845



Landscape Rural Scene 1845



The Concealed Enemy 1845

Many more paintings here

Art On A Sunday New Weekly Sharing Event

Good morning everyone,  
     When I first learned about blogging when I retired back in 2003 I discovered Yahoo 360 and loved it, when that was no more my circle of friends found Multiply, when that platform was no more we all scattered to different places online and blogging has not been the same for me since. Mostly because my circle of friends found Facebook and never looked back to blogging.
   I find blogging more personal and is my life happenings shared in a journal form over on my main blog.
   I have been at Blogger for many years but the platform is not as easy to communicate with friends as it was on those other two sites. However, for what is available I find this site works the best for me.
   Back then we had lots of "day events" with large numbers of participation-Chicken Tuesdays, Herb Thursdays, Food Fridays, and Art Sundays to name my favorites. One of my most favorites was Art Sundays.

   For Art Sundays we all shared a post about art, or an artist. Or shared our own art. I learned allot from visiting the many posts and was a nice Sunday morning for me.


I would like to start that event up again-but will name it Art On A Sunday as this is a new day and a new year.

To participate just write a post on your blog and title it Art On A Sunday.  The post can feature any artist, or craftsman, or your own art. A biography of the artist with photos is always informative. Just a note it is helpful to also provide links to where the information was sourced from.

     I never could get those linky platforms to work without paying a fee so to share your blog post please in comments on my Art On A Sunday post please include the url to your blog post for that Sunday-NOT your blog url. I will then add it to the body of my post.


I  will start up the event next week Sunday February 5, 2017  Hope to see you there.