Uncle Shlomos Pushcart at Zazzle

Hannukah cards: I've done two but I'd like to do more.

`I painted this picture from an ancient mosaic at the Beth Alpha synagogue in Israel and used it for the cover of my Hanukkah songbook. Then I thought it would make a nice Chanukah card so I added it to my Zazzle store.


So then somebody who visited the Hanukah songbook lens said I should do some more Hanukah cards! So this was my second, the Tree of Life, a song they sing at my temple and it just gets stuck in my head (Germans call that an "earworm").

A new Celtic Knot (from the Book of Kells)

with the Gaelic word for "peace" underneath it...

I painted this on November 10, 2009, on a chilly rainy day, after I came home from visiting my son. He had a lot of homework to do, so I entertained myself drawing these infinite knots; there will be more to come. This one is at my Zazzle store; I think it would be great on a black tshirt.

Christmas cards: Uncle Shlomo's Pushcart is ecumenical

I've done two designs for Christmas cards...

When my daughter and I went to Bulgaria I picked up a bunch of postcards of ecclesiastical designs wrought in Bulgarian monasteries, like this one. It looked so much like the Celtic knotwork I am much more familiar with - I was amazed.

Some people think both the Celtic knots and these Bulgarian motifs stem from the Scythians.


I did this one because I was thinking about my young Latina friend Jeimy (I am her mentor) and how annoying it must be for kids of color to see so many white, white images at Christmas time.

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Pushcarts: how quaint and yet perfectly devised!

When Bob and I decided to build a pushcart, we looked at a lot of antique photographs and I liked them so much I painted a few of them.


This was my favorite scene of all: one lonely pushcart sitting out on a pier on a rainy, foggy day...

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Hamsa (plural is hamsot) - good luck charms from the Middle East!

We have quite a few of these around the house, so it seemed natural to paint them.

Click on any of these hamsot to go to the hamsa department of Uncle Shlomo's Zazzle store!

These great cds are all available at Uncle Shlomo's companion store, Skylark Productions

For lovers of folk music, traditional music, and odd songs from around the world

My favorite Yiddish saying: "If you don't chew bones, your teeth won't hurt."

I have this on my truck. Click it to order...

Earth is Full. Go Home! bumpersticker for the alienated.

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Egyptian decorative art is mysterious and colorful.

The Egyptian Phoenix - and King Tut

It was so much fun to paint these two pictures...
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