Celebration It's that day again: Happy Valentine's Day Take a little time today to think about all the good things in the world and the people and creatures you love. And anything else that makes you feel good: chocolate, a good book, a beautiful painting. Image credit: Photo by Sidney Pearce / Unsplash
Celebration Happy Lunar New Year 2021 Join in celebrating Lunar New Year and the Year of the Ox. Learn a little about Five Oxen painted nearly 1300 years ago in the C8th by Han Huang. Also some other Chinese paintings of oxen. Image credit: pinterest.com
Celebration The beauty of the night sky How many stars can you see at night? Do you ever look up to see? Come with us on a journey of the beautiful night skies around the world. Image: Shlomo Shalev, Unsplash.
Celebration Boxing Day What is the meaning of Boxing Day? Check out some opinions in today's post and enjoy a humorous interpretation by George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Image credit: meisterdrucke.uk
Celebration 25 December 2020 Wishing all our subscribers and supporters around the world a Very Happy Christmas with family and friends.
Celebration The Night before Christmas The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", more commonly known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, was first published anonymously in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837. Image credit: youthareawesome-com
Celebration Christmas Connections At this time of the year most of us are thinking about Christmas and the joy of sharing happy times with friends and families. Today let's explore some Christmas connections and trivia. Image credit: Denise Johnson/Unsplash
Creative ability Art is for everyone ...... This is a heart warming story about two artists who combined their very special abilities and qualities to produce a painting that was listed as one of the finalists for the Archibald Prize 2020. Image credit: digbywebster.com
Celebration An Interview with Santa We all know that Santa lives at the North Pole – but it’s a big place so where exactly does he hang out? He lives close to Rovaniemi, which is 800kms north of Helsinki across the forests of Finland in Lapland and the Arctic Circle. Image credit: Travel Lapland magazine Feb 2019
Celebration Australian Christmas Stamp in Memory of Poldi Mimovich Celebrating the art work of Poldi Mimovich who is being remembered this year with her art work featured on two of the Australia Post Christmas stamps. Image credit: melbourneartcritic.worldpress
Canada Sharing Christmas with Maud Kathleen Lewis: Candian folk artist Maud Lewis is probably Canada's best know naive artist and this year three of her paintings have been chosen as Canadian Christmas stamps. Image credit: en.wikipedia.org
Celebration Greetings for Hanukkah Today we celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah and send everyone our loving thoughts and best wishes. Including a recipe for classic latkes. Credit Image: Unsplash/Josh Appel
Celebration Celebrating The Feast of Saint Nicholas Sharing The Feast of Saint Nicholas by Dutch artist Jan Steen in recognition of the 6th December - Saint Nicholas Day. (Image: The Feast of Saint Nicholas by Jan Steen en.wikipedia.org)
Blogger A Celebration of Julie's Contribution to the AnArt4Life Blog Celebrating the anniversary of Julie joining the AnArt4Life blog. She has a love of Impressionist paintings, aeroplanes, trains and her dog Foxy. Today we thank Julie for her wonderful contribution to our blog.
Celebration Celebrating Diwali: the Festival of Lights Celebrating Diwali - the "Festival of Lights" where we acknowledge that light does triumph over darkness, good over evil and knowledge of ignorance. The AnArt4Life blog sends best wishes to all our devoted subscribers and followers across the social media network. Photo: Hari Shankar/Unsplash
Aboriginal Art Naidoc Week This week here in Australia we will be celebrating Naidoc Week which celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Image credit: naidoc.org.au
Celebration The AnArt4Life Blog Turns 3.001 Today Continuing on from yesterday as we celebrate the AnArt4Life blog's 3rd birthday. Today you will see some of Julie's past posts and Anne will conclude the celebration. Thank you to all our subscribers who have made this day possible.
Blogger The AnArt4Life Blog Turns 3 Years Old Today It's the blog's 3rd birthday and we want to send a huge thank you to all our subscribers and followers because without you there would not be a blog. Art is all around us to discover, learn from and share. Thank you - Anne, Jane, Caroline, Julie.
Celebration The Melbourne Cup We are the only nation on Earth that stops for a horse race and that race is "The Melbourne Cup" which is run on the 1st Tuesday in Novemember. The first Melbourne Cup was run in 1861 and "Archer" won by a staggering 6 lengths. Image: Archer, with jockey J Cutts by Frederick Woodhouse Snr
Celebration The History of Halloween Most may know Halloween as a time to see children dressing up & eating sweets, however it has a deep seated origin which can be traced back 2000 years to the Celts in Ireland & Britain who celebrated their new year on November 1 & All Hallows Eve the night before. Image credit: mentalgloss.com
Birds Australian Bird Week: 19 October to 25 October 2020 Celebrating Australian Bird week with a special "up close viewing" of the Peregrine Falcon Family from 367 Collins Street Melbourne. And a special thank you to Dr Victor Hurley who was hauled 150 metres up the side of a building to install a new nest. Also heralding the Aussie Backyard Bird Count.
Celebration Welcoming in Rosh Hashanah "L’shana tovah u’metukah" to all my Jewish family and friends. May you have a good and sweet new year. Image: "The Herald of Dawn" by Elena Kotliarker (villageyontif.com)
Reflection Various Perspectives on VP Day Today we recall the 75th anniversary of the end of the second world war in 1945, and the commitment to peace that survives to this day. Image: Wikipedia
Humour Wishing You - Happy World Emoiji Day from the AnArt4Life Blog Team Click off if you hate emoijis as TODAY IS WORLD EMOIJI DAY. This post is dedicated to everyone around the world who loves to communicate using tiny characters. Don't run- embrace and have a bit of fun.
Celebration Celebrating Caroline's Contribution to the AnArt4Life blog Today we celebrate the anniversary of Caroline joining the blog as a writer. We thank her for the wonderful contribution she has made to the AnArt4Life blog.
