Elizabeth Patch's More to Love Blog » famous artists http://elizabethpatch.com Art & Inspiration for All Sizes! Sun, 20 May 2012 20:47:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Rubenesque Work of Art http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/01/rubenesque-work-of-art.html http://elizabethpatch.com/2011/01/rubenesque-work-of-art.html#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:20:16 +0000 elizabeth patch http://elizabethpatch.com/?p=3549 Work of Art

Look at yourself through a painter’s eyes. Look at yourself through a sculptor’s hands. Look at yourself through a poet’s words.

You are an incredible woman!

from More to Love, © Elizabeth Patch, all rights reserved

This illustration & story comes from my experiences as a high school art teacher.

Imagine a room full of teenage girls who

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The “fear of fat” brings up 32,900 hits on a Google search I recently did. Skimming through the articles, I find that some deal with how the media is afraid to show “fat” models/ actresses, etc because it won’t sell the fantasy that people expect (!), some are are personal

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]]> http://elizabethpatch.com/2009/04/screaming-fat-and-dreaming-fat.html/feed 0 The Goddess of Love http://elizabethpatch.com/2009/04/the-goddess-of-love.html http://elizabethpatch.com/2009/04/the-goddess-of-love.html#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:12:00 +0000 elizabeth patch http://elizabethpatch.com/2009/04/the-goddess-of-love.html My “More to Love”cover girl, a goddess floating on a heart-shaped seashell , while roses drift about in the wind, is an homage to the amazing painting The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

She was one of my very first illustrations, before I decided she would be on the cover,

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