Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art Date! I chose to do a portrait of William Shakepeare (1564-1616) for Rain's 'Wisdom of the Ages' theme. The bard had many wise quotes in the Modern English of that time. It is hard to understand nowadays. 'All that glitters is not gold' is fairly straightforward. 'To thine own self be true' is another of many famous and wise quotes of his.
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*wow* the portrait of the William Shakespeare is very good painted by you and he was a great man.
If some things are right, you have to question what he means!
Greetings Elke
Fabulous portrait of a clever man! Hugs, Valerie
Very good take on Shakespeare
Fabulous portrait!
Wow.
Wow, so cool!
Love it,I love his works too!
The resemblance is good, Christine! I myself have a very hard time trying to get the resemblance when painting portraits... So I usually stick to still-life. I should give portraits a go... 🙂
Excellent! Great job Christine 💮
nice portrait :)
I loved Shakespeare in school :)
Ah, it is William Shakespear. :) Great portrait :)
Nice portrait. I used to enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Now, they seem so dated.
Excellent portrait, Christine. Yes, those are good quotes. All that glitters is not gold....no it might just be "bling" haha.
Beautiful portrait of Shakespeare!
Your are right, I knew both of those Shakespeare quotes ... and probably many others, but was never able to read his plays because it was hard to grasp what he was saying. So he remains famous for his wisdom based of the quotes that we (meaning the average person on the street as opposed to a student of Shakespeare) could understand. Fun post, Christine ...
Andrea @ From the Sol
Great job!
Great job.
I never tried a portrait
You did a great job on the portrait!
Christine,
To be or not to be is the question. lol Great take on this week's prompt. I know very little about Shakespeare. Classical literature didn't appeal to me in school or out. Good art piece!
Well done!!!
beautiful painting....
time changes as well as meaning of quotes....
This looks great. I love your work :-D
Oh Christine, I squealed when I saw your piece! Shakespeare is by far my favourite author (even though some critics might say he never wrote his plays himself, hmph!) :) I studied English Literature as a minor at university and read and re-read most of the Shakespeare plays. I still love to watch the movie adaptations. Brilliance! :)
Oh Christine, this is such a fabulous portrait … I love it.
All the best Jan
Wow this is excellent. A very good likeness and yes full of wisdom.
nice job on this! really good.
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