The Paintings and Drawings of Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861-1909), to Dvorak.

Here is a site with many painters.

AMERICAN GALLERY
Greatest American Painters
https://americangallery.wordpress.com/

Thank you. Always looking for good sources. Mostly I use Wikipedia Commons. I've collected old portraits of my ancestors, which is quite fun. I prefer finding the women because it's harder.

The Livingston family portraits are a funny story. I found images of these in b/w in an old publication and colorized them. Then I was invited to one of the mansions in the area and brought along my colorized copies to show the owner. She started laughing and took me into the hallway to see the originals.
Livingston Ancestral Portraits

This one image caught my attention at 1:15 in the video:

Me, too! Spitting a bullet into the gun. I used it in the long position exactly because it was so weird I wanted people to look at it. GREAT CATCH!

I should have put these in the download table, too. Sorry

Adoration of the Magi	YouTube	Download 250 MB
Nativity Scenes	YouTube	Download 45 MB
Vicars Book - Nudes	YouTube	Download 67 MB

More treasure from mairdie!

Thank You once again!

JD

You are so very kind. Thank you.

Next is Dante Gabriel Rossetti for jmacusa and Sirius Lee. Done to Bach’s Concerto for 3 Harpsichords in C major.

He was prolific! Love the moose one toward the end, and the stagecoach in the dark.
And I’ve loved The New World Symphony forever.

On one level, I’m always amazed by how many pictures I find. But, on the other, it is the work of their lifetime, so that makes it kind of understandable. So far, Turner wins. Hands down! I think he must have painted in his sleep.

I’m so glad you liked it. Wasn’t the moose amazing? It made you wonder what his next few years would have been like if he had lived longer.

It is amazing what goes into making such a video. I’ve made a couple, not as nice as yours, and the coordination and decisions needed are time consuming and require a lot of thought. You are incredible in how you’ve managed to put video after video together. You have brought joy to many through your expertly curated videos, and I appreciate your acquaintance through this forum.

I will think about another request since you said you like receiving them.

Thanks Mary.

I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I once woke up and realized I’d been editing in my sleep.

For many years people used to show up at our home or apartment and do either a 24 hour teaching session or a week long seminar. Exhausting, but absolute joy. The one thing I required of anyone I taught was meticulousness. I wouldn’t let them get away with a single edit being off. And those were the days before non-linear editing!

Husband is incredibly lazy. His goal was always to see how long a clip he could get away with before HAVING to make an edit. I’d go to bed while he edited Star Wars, then be awakened to see what he’d achieved. I’d watch with one eye open, tell him where his edits were off, and stagger back to bed. In an hour he’d be back to get me up to see the changes and we’d cycle all over again.

Basically, you need to NEVER accept mediocre. If it could be better, make it better. In this non-linear world, I watch a video over and over and over again before it goes out. What I’m looking for is an itch on my back that I don’t know why something bothers me, but it does. And I keep moving the edit points, or deleting a too short clip and expanding one near it and playing it again and again, or adding in another clip, until ALL the twitches are gone.

I choose to edit on the beat. For literary music videos, I edit on the first word of a music phrase and leave the silence between for the previous scene. But I’ve taught people who make a different choice for their cut points. It’s not WHERE you choose, but the CONSISTENCY with which you choose. For these slide shows, I make sure I change the length of phrase I edit for variety.

And I’m a storyteller, so there’s not a single video I ever make where I’m not looking for that story. For a literary music video, I’m looking at SHAPE. I can outline one of those because they’ll have the same pattern as a short story. These slide shows are trickier. They take little mini-stories that appear and disappear. So, for the landscape video, every section ends with a person reacting to the landscape. That’s the story. For Remington, it’s little stories that the music draws out of fear of Indians and then battles. Some of the stories you might never find. Back in the day, people used to write me with analyses of my videos. These have that same depth that you won’t find easily. There was the little mini story of the stop of the Indian war with the politician, until it starts again. Even the start of the video was showing the people intruding on the Indian lands and the Indian reaction.

The other thing is organization. You don’t go into this randomly. I spend DAYS collecting the images. For art, this means naming them with the starting year of creation and ending with the size for making fast choices. Then the subdirectories are set up by year.

Then comes a pass to make decisions which of 3 different versions of the same image to choose. Then comes cleaning the images. White frames are edited out, or filled with black. Images are cropped tight. Photographic problems are fixed like wiping out bright dust spots. I know enough art that I can even go in with a tiny brush and fix the actual art in the same pattern when there’s something wrong with the photo.

All those changes end up with some versions eliminated and they go into a rejects subdirectory. Then comes a pass where I take out mediocre into a skip subdirectory. What I’m left with is a group of chronology directories with the best of the best. The skip subdirectories is where I go when I’m desperate for more clips in a section.

THEN and only then does the editing start. One of these pieces usually takes one to two days. Never longer. I’ve cut the audio up with markers and assigned a number of years to each span so that I won’t run out before the end. And always, as I work, I’m looking for an upcoming mini-story to create.

Bottom line. There’s nothing magical. It’s meticulousness and never being satisfied with “good enough.” NOTHING is good enough. There’s ONLY perfect.

My, but this was long-winded. Apologies. Hope that something was useful for your next editing project.

If you want - and can handle it - put up your intermediate versions on YouTube without making them public and let me critique for you. You can have your own private seminar. But I’m merciless, and I’ll find every edit where you’re off. On the other hand, I can tell you that my students’ work is marvelous. And by now they’ve taught another generation of videomakers. I consider myself a grandmother of videomakers.

I’m currently working on Dante Rossetti to a Bach concerto for jmacusa. All the cleaning and organization is done; the audio is in place. I just need to catch a breath and start the actual editing. And Lone Palm just asked for a hymn to Cadfael. And I just promised someone at the treehouse a video about cats and kittens. Shame they don’t mean lions and tigers since I already have THOSE collected. So I love suggestions. They just have to match something that clicks inside me.

Not all my videos will be to the taste of this audience. I take out the ones they won’t like from Playlists before I announce, then put them back in a few days later. But if you can avoid the ones that would bother you and stick with the ones that appeal, the 726 videos I’ve made, and my students have made in our home, with links to YouTube and downloads, is at:
http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/songvids/index.htm

MAKE MORE VIDEOS YOURSELF! Many of my students are better than I am. Just keep doing it. If you’re frustrated by the time it takes, choose shorter music. But keep doing it until even YOU are satisfied. Be ambitious. Try something with each video that you’ve never done before. And look for the story. That’s what keeps interest over time - the intellectual underlying the aesthetic. Oh, do, be great!

Best, Mary