To commemorate the announcement a week ago by my wonderful oncologist that I am "totally free of disease" as far as cancer goes, I show the following pictures. These were painted when I was diagnosed. The ordeal has lasted several years. Now I celebrate. I have time during my brief wink of a visit to this planet to make some more pictures!
The nudes are part of a "prayer" series I did about a year ago. Some viewers on MySpace were concerned that I was somehow blaspheming by showing a nude in a prayer shawl. The item in question is a dish towel. I asked my model to pick up something for a prop and play with it when I was making the preliminary studies for this series. Only later did I decide the paintings were about prayer.
I will try to post new paintings every month or so . . .
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Thanks for looking,
Zlatko
The first picture is called "Undiagnosed" . . .
All paintings:
oil and combined mediums on Arches paper






Two prayer studies ( from a series)
oil and combined mediums on Arches paper
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