The Vanzant Brush

Quotes by Monica Vanzant, The Vanzant Brush

Quotes by Monica Vanzant, The Vanzant Brush

Quotes by Monica Vanzant of The Vanzant Brush

Quotes by Monica Vanzant of The Vanzant Brush

A compilation of tonal painting studies of women's faces.

2021 Self-portrait

Oil on Canvas Board To see the original beautiful Sargent painting click here

Quick 30 minute portrait sketch painted ony my birthday.

Single flower of a portofino sunrise done in watercolor pencil.

I saw a woman holdinga child on the train and they looked beautiful.

This piece is a part of my new work of mixed media art made up of unique abstract patterns and glazed with multiple layers of oil paint.

Still I painting of beautiful beets purchased from the marke

Large scale floral. Flora II of Flora I.

I was pulling up weeds one day and I really looked at it and the root was actually more beautiful than the greenery that surrounded it so I decided to paint it.

Large scale floral. Flora I of Flora II.

I saw this beautiful Begonia and I wanted the painting to be elegant and intimate. The Portofino Sunrise Begonia is in my favorite flower pot sitting on my favorite throw.

Oil on linen board.

Quotes by Monica Vanzant

Oil on board. "Just in case no one remembers me."

This is the original burial ground at the Taos Pueblo. I was told that during a recent festival fireworks had destroyed part of it. Nothing is sacred from man's carelessness. Still, it was a moving experience to stand there and read the names of the crosses still standing.

Self Portrait 2019 Oil on Linen

Self portrait of Monica Vanzant-Duke

Oil on Board I saw a donation box one day and incorrectly assumed it was a charitable donation box. But as I kept looking at it I realized it was actually a donation box from a company that collects and resells used items. I did a little research and apparently there are quite a few of these companies that use these boxes for commercial retail purposes (they come in multiple colors). I am assuming that most, if not all, of these companies are legal, but somehow this just seems...wrong. And judging from the hits I received after I researched, I am not alone. Now, I am not saying you should not give items to these companies (after all, everyone's gotta make a living), but I would ask that if you are donating items for the purpose ...

Oil on linen board. "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." Martin Luther King, Jr.

This jellyfish was terrifying yet delicate. Absolutely beautiful.

Oil on linen board. Covid Self Portrait

Oil on board.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" ""The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus (1849–87)":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Lazarus

Self-Portrait 2021

Oil on linen board Thomas Moran is one of my favorite landscape painters. This painting is painted after his piece titled Tantallon Castle, North Berwick. You can view the original painting and Moran's other beautiful work here

Oil on linen board. The original Saint Jerome by Jusepe de Ribera can be seen here

This study is based on the poem by Yeats titled "The Three Hermits". Oil on canvas. THREE old hermits took the air By a cold and desolate sea, First was muttering a prayer, Second rummaged for a flea; On a windy stone, the third, Giddy with his hundredth year, Sang unnoticed like a bird. "Though the Door of Death is near And what waits behind the door, Three times in a single day I, though upright on the shore, Fall asleep when I should pray." So the first but now the second, "We're but given what we have earned When all thoughts and deeds are reckoned, So it's plain to be discerned That the shades of holy men, Who have failed being weak of will, Pass the Door of Birth again, And are plagued by crowds, until They...

Self Portrait 2019 Oil on Linen

Monica Vanzant quotes

This photo was taken one day at the aquarium. Soothing isn't it?

Oil on Canvas