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Black Madonna
Image of the Week © DURGA YAEL BERNHARD – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Black Madonna For the next two weeks, my weekly post will be dedicated to one of the images offered in my MOTHER’S DAY SALE. Black Madonna...
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Maternal Roots
Image of the Week © Durga Yael Bernhard – Do not reproduce Maternal Roots Maternal Roots is an image of adoptive motherhood. It was commissioned as a Biblical illustration about ten years ago....
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Song of Sorrow, Song of Joy
Image of the Week Happy Mother’s Day! © Durga Yael Bernhard Song of Sorrow, Song of Joy Motherhood isn’t easy under the best of circumstances. Along with the joy comes a lot of frustration, hard...
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Incarnation of the Sun
IMAGE OF THE WEEK © Durga Yael Bernhard – Do not reproduce or copy Incarnation of the Sun I painted this picture over twenty years ago. I was working almost exclusively in gouache at the time, in...
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Incarnation of the Moon
IMAGE OF THE WEEK © Durga Yael Bernhard Incarnation of the Moon This painting is the counterpart of last week’s image, Incarnation of the Sun. Here is my visual embodiment of lunar energy – as...
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The Still, Small Voice
IMAGE OF THE WEEK This quick pencil sketch was inspired by a lively teaching and discussion I attended last week on the occasion of Shavuot, a lesser-known Jewish holiday that is held very dear. For...
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Spring & Fall
IMAGE OF THE WEEK © DURGA YAEL BERNHARD Spring & Fall Two days ago I saw a newborn spotted fawn walking for the first time, following its mother on tottering legs. The two deer reminded me of...
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Mountain Buck
IMAGE OF THE WEEK © DURGA YAEL BERNHARD Mountain Buck On the turn of the millennium, I moved across the Hudson River, returning to the Catskill Mountains from Dutchess County, NY, where I had lived...
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Into the World
IMAGE OF THE WEEK Into the World Into the World came to me as a complete image that appeared in my head one day. I looked at my then-sixteen-year-old son, Jonah – and suddenly the full realization...
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The Shandaken Art Studio Tour, July 18-19
On Tour at Home SNEAK PREVIEW BELOW! Hi folks, Recognize this mountain? It’s Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskills, viewed from the flanks of Westkill Mountain near my home – and the...
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The Stories Behind the Pictures – 5776
The Stories Behind the Pictures The Jewish Eye Calendar of Art 5776/2016 Welcome to The Jewish Eye Calendar of Art. The year 5776 begins today! The calendar is 8.5″x11″ (11″x17″ open),...
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Seascape with Apples
IMAGE OF THE WEEK © DURGA YAEL BERNHARD Seascape with Apples Summer’s end is always a poignant time. How quickly the hot afternoons and cool evening sunsets slip away. It’s a bittersweet harvest as...
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Village Man
IMAGE OF THE WEEK Village Man Village Man was my first children’s illustration. It was not published in a book, but matted and hung in a child’s bedroom. My son was two years old at the time, and my...
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River of Healing
IMAGE OF THE WEEK © DURGA YAEL BERNHARD River of Healing Here is another Biblical illustration that I was commissioned to do about twelve years ago. I cannot recall the exact passage – it was very...
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Genesis
IMAGE OF THE WEEK Genesis – version 1 – copyright © D Yael Bernhard Genesis In the Jewish tradition, last week marked the beginning of the yearly cycle of reading the Torah, or Hebrew Bible, with...
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The Royal Courtyard
IMAGE OF THE WEEK This illustration does not have a title. It’s the opening scene of my recently-illustrated picture book Never Say a Mean Word Again (written by Jacqueline Jules, published by...
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Culture Clash
IMAGE OF THE WEEK © Durga Yael Bernhard Culture Clash . . . That was the name of the assignment I received to create this illustration for a high school textbook. I was commissioned to paint a...
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The Magic Needle
IMAGE OF THE WEEK © D YAEL BERNHARD The Magic Needle “The Magic Needle” is an Inuit folk tale that I was commissioned to illustrate for a printed children’s magazine, Cricket, ten years ago. Cricket,...
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The Shared Bounty
IMAGE OF THE WEEK © Durga Yael Bernhard The Shared Bounty Here in rural upstate New York, it’s the middle of archery season. You don’t see too many bow hunters these days. I used to be one myself,...
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The Shopkeeper’s Dreidel
IMAGE OF THE WEEK A mysterious peddler shows a magic dreidel to a shopkeeper in Prague in this opening image from THE DREIDEL THAT WOULDN’T SPIN © D Yael Bernhard The Dreidel That Wouldn’t Spin...
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