As American as Baseball and Apple Pie

by Lianne Schneider

Title

As American as Baseball and Apple Pie

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

I hope you'll forgive me still for not being able yet to respond to every comment or to visit each of you to thank you personally for your visits and lovely comments. I have about two more weeks before I can sit comfortably for any length of time to write comments. I've tried to catch a few of you in the past few days but it's a drop in the proverbial bucket, I'm afraid. Please do know that I cherish your visits and I'll be by to visit you as soon as I can. I had this art work completed before my surgery but was saving it for closer to the 4th of July holiday.

The title saying has many variations - as American as...motherhood, baseball and apple pie...baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet...as baseball and apple pie. And while any version is relatively new to the American lexicon, the symbols and the sentiment are not. Apple pie is mentioned as early as 1649 in a Plymouth colony journal and the Pennsylvania Dutch perfected the pastry along with other fruit pie variations. While not entirely an American creation it has been so long identified with our country that it is one of our most visible symbols.

Baseball of course IS an American creation and it would take far too much space to go into the entire history (which you can find on my antique baseball card paintings) here. Suffice it to say that baseball is considered America's No.1 sport and certainly the sport most identified with summer. Baseball's All Star game is played in July and the famous Lou Gehrig retirement speech was made on July 4, 1939 at Yankee Stadium.

So the 4th of July approaches and one cannot help but think of those symbols that are most American and that are indicative of the culture in so many ways. An apple pie and all the equipment necessary for a baseball game resting on an American flag certainly qualifies. This is a digital oil/impasto painting based on a photograph in the public domain courtesy Scott Bauer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It has been digitally enhanced and then hand painted using a variety of brushes, filters and painting programs.

Thank you so much to the following groups for featuring this image:
BOOK COVERS 1 PER DAY - JO ANN
MEMORIES AND NOSTALGIA - ALEXANDRIA
ART FROM THE PAST - JOUKO
PLEASING THE EYE - JEFF
ART - IT IS GOOD FOR YOU - NINA
3 A DAY WAITING ROOM ART - PAMELA
ENHANCED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY - DENYSE
ALL FINE ART AMERICA ARTWORK - NADINE AND BOB
EXCELLENT SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS - JOE
SIGNATURE STYLE ART - SHARON
1 WEEKLY - ALL STARZ - NADINE AND BOB
PREMIUM FAA ARTISTS - DAN
ARTISTS OF WESTERN AND UPSTATE NEW YORK - ROSE
500 VIEWS - 1 IMAGE PER DAY - MARIOLA
SEASONS OF BEAUTY - SHAWN
IN THE MOOD - LISA

I am a western New York based artist with a passion for the sea and a deep love for the natural world around me. Having somewhat restricted mobility, my paintings are sometimes based on images in the public domain or on elements from classic art work. Thank you for your interest in my artwork. If you would like to see more, my full portfolio can be found at http://lianne-schneider.artistwebsites.com If you enjoy my art works, please feel free to share this link with friends or share on your social networks by pushing the Pinterest, FB, Google+, Twitter or SU Buttons! Thank you!

You can purchase quality traditional style fine art prints of digital paintings, giclee canvas prints, acrylic and metallic prints by Lianne Schneider. Beautiful and stylish decor for any wall in your home, office or lobby. Detailed landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, flowers and more...all with the look and feel of classic oil paintings. The FAA-Watermark will NOT appear on any final product!

This is a hand-painted digital oil derivative work based primarily on an image/photograph in the public domain used as a reference. It is not a "faithful" reproduction, nor does it attempt to be. Painted on a Wacom tablet using a variety of painting programs and filters. While my adaptations and interpretations are copyright protected, the underlying artwork remains in the public domain available to other artists to reproduce or interpret.

Please contact the artist, Lianne Schneider, directly if you purchase this image as a giclee print on canvas, framed or unframed. A signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity is available for each canvas indicating title of the work, my name, date of creation, a thumbnail of the painting, the origin of original work if the painting is a derivative, the number of your print in the limited printing and a guarantee that the work will no longer be available to the public in a canvas format once 25 canvas prints are sold.

Copyright Lianne Schneider 2014
This is a rights managed image available for licensing at http://licensing.pixels.com/profiles/lianne-schneider.html

All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. My copyright does not imply rights to an underlying public domain image and I make no such claim. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or the digital painting resulting from my own style and interpretation. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used in accordance with international law.

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June 30th, 2014

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