Tag: vintage

A still life oil painting with a leather hat and a whisky glass placed on a wooden cupboard. A guitar is also leaning against it. There is a Wild West vibe to it, like the cowboy is taking a break before taking the road again. - A still life oil painting with a leather hat and a whisky glass placed on a wooden cupboard. A guitar is also leaning against it. There is a Wild West vibe to it, like the cowboy is taking a break before taking the road again.

Cowboy at rest

Oils on canvas panel. I am grateful to the artist photographer Corrado Calamoneri for the exquisite composition that inspired this painting of mine. In a couple of days I shall gift it as a birthday present to my son, who is crazy about playing guitar & all Wild West tokens

The scullery window. A narrow scullery with old rusty things on a shelf: a lantern with the glass full of soot, a milk jug with chipped enamel and a clay flower pot with a succulent. Acrylics on canvas paper, size A4

The scullery window

A narrow scullery with a sunlit window. There are a few old rusty things on a shelf: a lantern with the glass full of soot, a milk jug with chipped enamel and a clay flower pot with a succulent. Out the window we can see an alley bordered by autumn […]

A vintage Dutch washerwoman. Oils on stretched canvas, 40x50 cm. Every day scenes by Manu Fine Art

A vintage washerwoman

A vintage Dutch washerwoman, painted after this preliminary sketch. Now she is depicted in her backyard, on a cobbled area, with her zinc washing tub and her manual wringing machine, her cans and her ladles. She has been busy, the clothes she has already done are hung on several clotheslines […]

Vintage Dutch washerwoman, a preliminary sketch for an oil painting. Graphite pencils on Bristol paper, size A4

Washerwoman sketch

Preliminary sketch of a Dutch washerwoman in traditional clothes, for a future oil painting. She is doing manual laundry washing in a zinc tub, surrounded with clear water cans. A manual wringing machine is placed before her. Graphite pencils on Bristol paper, size A4.

Vintage scene with two children blowing soap bubbles, graphite pencils on paper, size A3

Blowing bubbles

Vintage scene with two children blowing soap bubbles. They are standing on stools and have a zinc basin with soapy water between them, on a three-legged table. A teddy-bear lays forgotten at their feet, while they enjoy blowing bubbles. Graphite pencils on paper, size A3