Laura JG
Artist, art history, deconstructing. The banner is one of my artworks, created on my iPad using the Sketch Club app, with my Apple Pencil in hand. http://laurajeannegrimes.com
- Birmingham Children’s Crusade, a protest against segregation took place May 2–10, 1963, in Birmingham, AL. The publicity motivated Pres. John F. Kennedy to publicly support federal civil rights legislation. #BlackHistoryMonth #Protest #CivilRights #CivilRightsMovement photo: Birmingham News
- By African-American artist Richmond Barthé (1901-1989), “Josephine Baker,” 1950, bronze, 10 1/4 x 6 x 8 3/4 in. (26 x 15.2 x 22.2 cm.), photo: Swann Auction Galleries. More in ALT. #arthistory #blackart #blackartist #sculpture #BlackHistoryMonth
- © Beverly Y. Smith (b. 1957), “Minerva,”mixed media quilt, graphite portrait, vintage flour sacks, ticking fabric, vintage bow-tie quilt patterns, drunkard's path & patchwork quilt design, 71x40inches, 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth #quilting #blackart #blackartist #womenartists #womanartist
- "Tired," by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting. Aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two and see what worms are eating at the rind. #BlackHistoryMonth #poetry
- By African-American artist Charles White (1918-1979), "Awaken from the Unknowing," 1961, compressed charcoal, brown, & gray vine charcoal w/ scratching out, blending, and erasing, Blanton Museum of Art. More info in ALT. #blackartists #BlackArt #BlackHistoryMonth #artHistory #art #drawing
- By African-American artist John Wilson (1922–2015), “Oracle,” 1965, ink , chalk, and collage on paper, Estate of John Wilson/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, via The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. More info in ALT. #arthistory #drawing #blackart #blackartist
- I did some quick sketches at the art museum today. On the left, my sketch, drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the Sketch Club app; on the right, the original work by Alonso Cano, Portrait of an Ecclesiastic, oil on canvas. More info in ALT. #art #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp #painting
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519): The Virgin, the Infant Jesus and Saint Anne, ca. 1503-1519, oil on wood, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Da Vinci left many works unfinished. He was a perfectionist and a procrastinator. The two often go hand in hand. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #art
- Two recent sketches of mine. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the Sketch Club app. I’m feeling devastated by the murders in Minneapolis. I no longer recognize my country. Maybe I never really did. #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp #paintingapp #sketchclubapp
- International Holocaust Remembrance Day was yesterday. Another reminder: by Hedwig Brahn (1880-1944), “Tatsachenbericht -Terezín Street,” 1944, included in Philipp Manes' diaries, which document life in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. The artist died there. More in ALT. #holocaust #antisemitism #fascism
- Selfie. iPhone 15 Pro Max. I am deeply saddened, disheartened by the murders in Minnesota. First by the murders themselves. Then by the reactions of so-called conservatives. I’m 71. I’ve seen this before. MLK. Kent State. The right wing reactions were brutal. I’m just tired of it all. #photography
- Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. This drawing titled “Children Behind Wire” is by Mieczysław Kościelniak (1912-1993), a survivor of Auschwitz. More in ALT. #art #holocaust #drawing #holocaustremembrance
- My sketch for today, titled “Marley (Sadness),” based on a photo reference provided by the subject on the Museum app. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the SketchClub app. #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp I’m trying to express the shock and sadness I am feeling about current events.
- Today’s sketch: “Katie,” drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the Sketch Club app, based on a photo reference provided by the subject. I was trying to express a sense of sadness. #digitalart #art #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp
- Yesterday’s sketch, a self portrait. Feeling blue. I no longer even recognize my country. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the SketchClub app. #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp
- Look closely at the beard to find the upside down portrait of a young woman in this work by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Portrait of an Old Man, ca. 1609, oil on paper, offered at the upcoming BRAFA Art Fair. More in ALT. #arthistory #art #painting #oilpainting #portrait
- By Vietnamese-French painter Mai Trung Thu (1906-1980), "Grand-Mère (Grandmother)," 1944, ink and gouache on silk mounted on cardboard, 60 by 45 cm; 23 1/2 by 17 1/2 in., photo: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, July 8, 2020 More info in ALT. #Art #arthistory #asianart #vietnam #vietnamese
- My latest sketch. “Journee,” drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the SketchClub app. Based on a photo reference provided by the subject on the Museum app. I could keep working on it, but think I’m going to leave it as is. #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp
- By Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), The Fallen Angel, 1847, oil on canvas, 120.50 cm × 196.50 cm (47.44 in × 77.36 in), Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France. #art #arthistory #painting #oilpainting
- A couple of recent sketches, both drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the Sketch Club app. On the left, “At the Coffee Shop,” drawn from life, and on the right a quick sketch (10 minutes) of “Journee,” drawn from a photo reference. #art #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp
- By Ethel Franklin Betts Bains (1877–1959), “Lest We Perish,” 1917, a poster commissioned by Near East Relief to raise funds for victims of the Armenian genocide. #art #refugees #illustration #illustrationart
- By Ben Shahn (1898-1869), “Identity,” 1968, mixed media on paper, 101.6 x 69.8 cm, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. More info in ALT. #art #illustration #drawing #arthistory
- Quote post with an old piece of your artwork (photography counts!) that you still like. This can be difficult. I don’t always like my own work. Here’s a charcoal sketch from over 30 years ago of my then 4 year old son asleep on the couch. #art #drawing
- This “I Am A Man” poster designed for the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike was also used during the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, DC, summer 1968, Emerson Graphics. #civilrights #blackhistory #martinlutherking
- By Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Return of the Prodigal Son, ca. 1668, oil on canvas, 262x205 cm, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. #art #arthistory #painting #oilpainting
- By Wilhelm Wachtel (1875-1942), Émigrés, 1916, oil on canvas laid down on board, 27 ¾ by 22 inches (70.5 by 55.9 cm), photo: Sotheby’s New York, 17 December 2025. #art #Painting #oilpainting #immigration #immigrants #refugees The artist is depicting Jewish immigrants, no doubt fleeing persecution.
- So I wasn’t being mindful walking from a parking lot to the sidewalk. Tripped and fell. Did not hit my head. No broken bones. Slight scrape on the knee. I’m 71. Any day you fall and don’t get seriously hurt is a good day.
- By Uche Okeke (1933-2016), Osondu (Refugees), 1968, ink on paper, 5¾ by 11⅝ inches (36.5x41 cm), photo: Sotheby’s London, 21 March 2024. #art #drawing #refugees #immigration
- By James Tissot (1836–1902), The Flight into Egypt (La fuite en Égypte), ca. 1886–1894, opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Brooklyn Museum. The Holy family as refugees. #art #arthistory #refugees
