Art Zealot Blog http://art.zealotblog.com Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Tribute to Vince Guaraldi: Christmastime Is Here by Renie Britenbucher http://art.zealotblog.com/2007/12/tribute-to-vince-guaraldi-christmastime-is-here-by-renie-britenbucher/ http://art.zealotblog.com/2007/12/tribute-to-vince-guaraldi-christmastime-is-here-by-renie-britenbucher/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:00:00 +0000 admin http://art.zealotblog.com/2007/12/tribute-to-vince-guaraldi-christmastime-is-here-by-renie-britenbucher/ Christmastime Is Here by Renie Britenbucher

Title: Tribute to Vince Guaraldi: Christmastime Is Here
Artist: Renie Britenbucher
Size: 20″ x 16″
Media: Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

This is another in my series of “Tributes to Vince Guaraldi”. This is something I’ve done over the last few years for those who are new to my work. Vince Guaraldi was the wonderful composer (Jazz), who is best known for the great music scores from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and other Peanuts cartoons. I love his music and this started because every time I would paint children ice skating or playing in the snow, I would hear the famous song, “Christmastime Is Here”, from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. That’s what these paintings represent to me–being a kid and the magic of snow and sledding and ice skating, which I still love as an adult!

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Title: Snow Angel
Artist: Renie Britenbucher
Size: 8″ x 8″
Media: Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

It’s a fresh snow and a small child has gone outside and is making a snow angel. A snowman stands watch. Colorful, whimsical houses are in the background with smoke coming from the chimneys.

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Title: Ice Skaters
Artist: Renie Britenbucher
Size: 12″ x 12″
Media: Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Children are taking advantage of the winter weather and are skating on the pond in front of the colorful neighborhood houses.

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Title: Winter Wonderland
Artist: Renie Britenbucher
Size: 12″ x 12″
Media: Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

This is a beautiful, winter scene, a quiet night. It’s called “Winter Wonderland”. It’s a quiet, winter night, the kind where it just seems so silent because of the snow piled on the ground with some of it still softly falling. There is a full moon above the colorful, cozy houses. A snowman stands guard in the foreground and a snow shovel is stuck in a pile of snow.

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Title: Christmastime Is Here
Series: Tribute to Vince Guaraldi
Artist: Renie Britenbucher
Size: 20″ x 16″
Media: Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

This is another in my series of “Tributes to Vince Guaraldi”. This is something I’ve done over the last few years for those who are new to my work. Vince Guaraldi was the wonderful composer (Jazz), who is best known for the great music scores from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and other Peanuts cartoons. I love his music and this started because every time I would paint children ice skating or playing in the snow, I would hear the famous song, “Christmastime Is Here”, from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. That’s what these paintings represent to me–being a kid and the magic of snow and sledding and ice skating, which I still love as an adult!

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Title: Three Lit Snowmen
Artist: Tracey Riedel
Size: 3.5″ x 2.5″ (ACEO)
Media: Watercolor and colored pencil on Lana Watercolor HP

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Title: Blue Moon
Artist: Jim Smeltz
Size: 2.5″ x 3.5″ (ACEO)

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Title: Gentleman Snowman
Artist: Tracey Riedel
Size: 2.5″ x 3.5″ (ACEO)
Media: Watercolor and colored pencil on Lana Watercolor HP

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Title: O Christmas Tree
Artist: Renie Britenbucher
Size: 16″ x 12″
Media: Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

A whimsical folk art scene has a group of children surrounding a Christmas tree and singing carols. There are colorful houses behind them. Snow is softly falling on the scene. The town I live in has an annual Christmas Sing and Tree Lighting ceremony every year. It’s held on the lawn of the Hoover Company, the home of the Hoover Sweepers. Hoover Company will no longer be here, so there may not be a community sing in future years, which is a sad thing.

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Title: Rocky Mt. Night
Artist: Jim Smeltz
Size: 5″x7″
Media: Reproduced on heavy linen paper

A true Rocky Mountain high. The stars are brighter and the air is so clear. You can hear the shooting stars! Trees silhouetted on a mountainside by the glow of a Rocky Mt. night.

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