Rain's Thursday Art Date: the Old Masters

It's Thursday and that means we're meeting at Rain's for her Thursday Art Date.  This week, the theme is The Old Masters.

I know what they are supposed to look like, but our museums don't have any Old Masters.  This was the closest I could find that reminded me of something Albrecht Dürer or Johannes Vermeer might have painted.

My friend Scott gave me this triptych by Hieronymus Bosch for my birthday.

Here's some art I've made:

This is sort of like daVinci's Vitruvian Man.

This one really IS a Vitruvian Man I created from a rubber stamp.

Here's another.

The above two were created on the deconstructed covers of a hardbound Reader's Digest book.

Finally, here is a cheeky look at an ad I've saved for years that was for hair color.   I thought it would be perfect for this Old Masters theme.

All art by me for various challenges.  Both art related photos and the scan by me.  Bleubeard laughed because I can't possibly draw an old master and there are NONE at my art museums.

I wish I had photos from when I visited the Smithsonian (Washington D.C.), the J.Paul Getty Museum now called the Getty Center (Brentwood, CA), the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), the Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City, MO), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), The Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, CA, although they have more Impressionists painting than any I've seen in any other museum), The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA in Los Angeles, CA), and The National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.).  They were all prints and all had to be thrown away when the basement where I was keeping them flooded.

Thank you ever so much for stopping by today.  I am truly grateful to you, my friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  Please also join me at Rain's Thursday Art Date.