Mixed Media Collage Art – Page 13

Don’t have to figure it out today

Don’t have to figure it out today
art journal page

pink black and gray abstract painting

portrait painting

Pink and white abstract painting

What I’m watching – Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski

Observing Quietly

source

paint pots

Being Inspired Instead of Jealous from Gwenn Seemel on Vimeo.

I’m going to leave you with this short video by Gwenn Seemel. She says a lot in only 1.5 mins.

Have a great weekend, y’all. I’ll see you next week.

PS: I have two sales going on in my Etsy shop. One is 20% off, and one is 50% off!! 🥳 🎉🎁 I need to clean out my storage closet. Between the two sales, more than 60 paintings have been marked down. If you’re looking for a gift for family, friends or yourself, now is the time. The 50% off sale is for a very limited time, so you’ll have to hurry.

View From Above

View From Above
Acrylic abstract painting
8×10 on flat panel
Available here

This is what it looked like from my hotel room, high above the city.

I’ve discovered that I’m most patient when painting a portrait, and the most impatient when I’m painting an abstract. When I’m painting a portrait, I tend to meander around the canvas, not caring if it takes me all day..or a month, even.

With an abstract, I feel the urgency to get what I’m feeling or seeing within my mind’s eye down on the canvas quickly before it’s gone forever. It all happens so fast. I find it exhilarating, and frustrating at the same time. I don’t have time to sit around waiting for paint to dry, so the colors don’t bleed into one another. Yet, if I’m not patient, the colors smear and turn to mud. Trying to find a happy medium has been a struggle lately. I don’t always remember it being this way, so perhaps I’ll find the answer soon.

Cardboard art

Fill the Void
cardboard art
Bid here

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Peas in a Pod
Bid here

When people ask me to pray for them or their loved ones, I explain that I’d be happy to hold HeartLight—sacred space—for them. The visualization I use is a sugar snap pea. In my mind’s eye, I unzip the pod, scoop out the peas, and place the person inside. Carefully, I rezip the pod and envision it as a ‘station,’ somewhat like an incubator, of vivid green, pulsing with vital energy that’s working for the person’s highest and best good—body, mind, and spirit.

Laurie Buchanan, PhD

I absolutely adore this visualization. I wish I had read the quote before painting peas in a pod because I would have switched the pale blue out for vivid green.

Serious Energy
Bid here

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

What I’m Reading: Rediscover Your Sparkle

I don’t know about this book, yet, but my new cardboard series is helping me rediscover my sparkle. Choosing the word PLAY as my word of the year is also a huge bonus. 🙂

London Fog – Abstract Painting

London Fog
10×10 inches on museum quality splined canvas
Acrylic mixed media
palette knife painting

I asked for suggestions for a title for this painting on IG, and Lianna said it looked like a tower in pastel fog. I had London bridge in mind the whole time I was create it, so I split the difference, and came up with London Fog. Thank you, Lianna for helping me out. 🙂

Speaking of IG, I’m so late to the party, I knoooow, but I’ve been having so much fun creating daily stories. It’s so weird that I jumped on this bandwagon because for the longest time, I didn’t like IG stories. I felt like it was a huge distraction, and annoying, but last summer, all of a sudden it clicked with me, and I became addicted to watching all the stories.

Then, finally, a couple weeks ago, I decided to try making a story myself, and omgawd..I’m soooo hooked now. It’s actually so much easier than thinking up hashtags, and all that jazz..really love it.

If you haven’t followed me on IG yet, you can find me here.

It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.

Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

This painting is thick with texture, luscious layers of artist quality paint, and collage papers.

Be true to yourself, only you know your own real truth…so follow your heart down your path through the fog, muting all the noise, and walk out into the meaningful light of the silent truth.

Bodhi Smith

What I’ve been reading: Photos of Andy Warhol and His Circle, Taken (Secretly) by His Close Friend

What I’ve been watching: Jean Michel Basquiat Documentary

What I’ve been listening to: The Ron Burgundy Podcast..laughed soooo hard. Can’t wait to listen to more. 😀

Hope you have a great Monday.

Favorite floral paintings in 2019

Blue Roses Flower Painting No 342
Available here

When I went into my folders, I was a bit surprised to find out I only painted two florals in 2019. So, this is going to be a quick, and easy post.

I have a few other florals behind the scenes, but they’re not finished yet. Florals tend to take me forever to complete..there’s a lot of layering involved with them.

Pink and Green Abstract Flower Painting No 341
Available here

If I had to pick my absolute fav, it would be this one. I just love how abstract it is, and the shade of pink I used.

This sums up all my favorites for last year. It’s a brand new year, so that means you’ll want to jazz up your walls, and make them new again. Sale is still going on in my Etsy shop for the next few days. Hurry, so you don’t miss out. I keep adding more, so check back often.