Don’t Look _________
You looked!
OK, you can LOOK. HA, ha, that reminds me one of our favorite books. You know the one where Grover is telling you not to turn the page because there is a monster at the end of the book and it turns out that HE is the monster at the end of the book. No matter how many times I read that to my kids they still get a kick out of it.
ANYWAY!
Just having a little fun up in the loft today. Painting beautiful people.
Hope you like them. They were fun. Maybe I will do larger versions, these are just wee.(4″x6″)
Don’t Look Away SOLD
Don’t Look Down SOLD
Little Crow, Little Crow
Little Crow, little cow …
Crows are so protective of their babies. Maybe that is another reason why I like them. They really make a racket if you try to go near their nest, even if you are simply walking beneath it. Unaware that it is high above you in the tree top.
Once, my dad, a bit of a wise guy (being from Liverpool it is hard for him not to always have some comeback or ‘witty’ remark), was walking outside our house in Victoria when a murder of crows started yelling at him, the way that they do, and he of course told them (I am sure ever so politely) to “SHUT UP”.
Well that was it for him. After that little outburst, they dive bombed him, knocked his hat off and crowed at him whenever he emerged from the house.
Crows do not like to be mocked or told to be quiet. They demand respect. Personally, I give it to them 100%. After all, there are not many of us in this world that can say they got the better of my dad. Ha, ha.
Naming A Painting
I am pretty consistent when I name a painting. Usually, I name it something obvious, you know, descriptive. Girl On A Train, a painting of a girl on a train, no brainer. But the title, even an obvious one like that, is usually running through my head as I paint it. Sometimes, I make up a narrative in my head as I am painting. This has never really changed, when I was young, I used to sit for hours, drawing and making up stories in my head that went with the drawings. I am sure I used a forest of paper.
Now, if I have my act together, I write the narrative down. Lately, I haven’t been doing that and then it makes it harder to title the painting something obscure. I really don’t feel like leaving the viewer scratching their head.
Today’s painting is an example of a title swooping around my brain while painting and it seems so dumb but she was saying ” I Wish I Had Washed My Hair Last Night”. She really was!
So I have titled it this and hope that it doesn’t take anything away from the painting. I feel her regret, as silly as it sounds. She really is in those first stages of the anticipation of falling in love. A time when, even though we know we shouldn’t, we want to present ourselves as perfectly as possible. I think she should throw caution to the wind, accept the highly anticipated proposal and just wear a dam hat.
7″x10″ mixed media painting on paper
SOLD
Girl In The Green Housecoat
This is a 7″x10″ mixed media painting on paper. SOLD
The Crow Sisters …. in progress
This is a 16″x16″ profile canvas.
This painting is in progress. I am doing an art show in November for Shadow Theatre’s season opener “Harvest”. I am still in the progress of reading the play and am enjoying it immensely. It takes place in the Alberta country side which I just happened to look at for over 8hours while driving up to Grande Prairie and back last weekend. I saw a lot of harvesting and I saw a lot of crows. I have to admit, I love crows. They are kind of sinister but they stick together and they are so brave and vocal. Boy, are they vocal. I don’t see crows often in the city. We have a lot of magpies and I think that the crows stay away from them. I love magpies as well, although I know a lot of people don’t, but they just aren’t as intriguing to me as crows. I wonder if it is because we didn’t have magpies in Victoria so there is no emotional pull. No nostalgia, no child hood memories … stuff that I often resurface when painting. Speaking of that, the title comes from what we called the two old spinster sisters that lived in my neighborhood. I am guessing their last name was Crow, I never really thought about it before. They, like crows, stuck it out together in their little house way into their old age. They were sweet, kind and gentle to us children, perhaps this is why I have such an affinity to crows. Who can say.
Girl With A Black Headband
This is a 7″x 10″ mixed media painting on paper.
$35 US + $4 for shipping.
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Great Art …
Hey, check out this wonderful artist’s work.
WOW, there are just so many amazing artists out there, it never ceases to amaze me!
Red Horse
Another 16″x16″ mixed media painting on paper.
The second completed piece for my restaurant commission.
BULL
This is a 16″x16″ mixed media painting on paper. It is for a commercial job that I am doing. It is going to be blown up to 4’x4′ and printed on canvas. No bull.
Girl On A Train
This is a 5″x7″ mixed media painting on paper.
This morning as Imogen ate her hot cereal I realized that appearances are starting to matter. Scarlett requested the curtain closed because the sun was in her eyes. I closed half of the curtain and left the other half opened. Scarlett asked me why I did not just close both curtains and I said it was nice to still be able to see outside. Disgruntled, Imogen stated that I should just close both curtains as a passerby might not only see her wearing the bib I made her put on so she didn’t drip on her clean clothes but also that Mickey Mouse Club House was on the TV. I hadn’t even realized. To be fair, I think she even found this humorous but I bet that would be different in a few years.
(OK, OK, I promise right here right now to never make her wear a bib again. A tea towel or a napkin would have been more appropriate for a six year old).
This painting makes me think about being clueless to her growing up. Sometimes I think I only really see my kids in photos. Look how old she is getting. She looks so young when she is sleeping or standing next to her 6′ 2 daddy. But in this picture she has some sort of wisdom I guess I miss when I am dealing with her on a day to day basis.
Yellow Legs
This is a 7″x10″ mixed media painting on paper.
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There is something, for me, about yellow socks/stockings. They are hard to pull off without looking like big bird but, I had a pair when I was 16 and I used to wear them with my Mum’s Honeymoon suit that she got in Liverpool in the sixties before my parents emigrated to Canada. Truly a dream for a girl in the eighties hanging out with ‘The Mods’. I don’t think that I looked like a bird, unless, of course, you are thinking about the English slang for ‘girl’.
Lady With Hat
This is a 7″x10″mixed media painting on paper.
Up in the loft again today. I have a head cold so I thought I would just have some fun. No pressure, no commissions, just me up here painting. Nice.
Peonies
This is a 24″x36″ mixed media painting on a clayboard stretcher. The sides are 2″ deep and are painted tangerine.
Circus Girl In Progress…
So here is another Circus Girl painting, I am trying to coax myself back to the canvas. This break has been too long and not helpful. I am not feeling inspired. I know that Picasso was right when he said he often found inspiration while working but lately when I have tried to start a painting my eyes get heavy and my arm feels like a wet noodle. I instantly feel like crawling under my duvet and going for a long slumber. ARGGGG. I hate that. I wonder why I have to be almost possessed with inspiration and unable to stop even if I want to (or my family wants me to) or a total mindless, uncreative slug. Hmmmm? As my grade nine English teacher used to say ‘ponder, ponder, ponder’.
Anyway, I think I need a huge dress up photo shoot with the girls.
And yes (DAD), I know that I really need to finish writing Circus Girl. She talked to me today, she said “Hurry, I am growing up …look at how I am looking at you.” She also said ” I love all my fans”( see how she is smiling at you?)
This is a 4″x6″ mixed media painting on canvas. I thought you might find it interesting to see the progress of a painting.
Wear My ART
How would you like to wear my art? Well you can and here is how:
http://www.ikonart.com.au/maria_pace_wynters/1.html
Exciting, isn’t it!
Lisa Engeman is an Australian Artisan that feels we should all “Take art off the wall and into your life”.
Thanks Lisa! I think that your pieces are absolutely beautiful and I am excited to see people WEARING my art!
Peonies and Grade One
This is a 7″x9.5″ mixed media painting on paper.SOLD
Just something a little different in the attempt to get myself back into painting mode. It feels like ages! Imogen starts school tomorrow, grade one, and I am looking forward to getting back to some sort of schedule. I am sad at the same time because I realize that she is going to be gone all day and I am really going to miss her. My Imogen, six and in grade one …I can’t quite believe it!
Photo of Imogen by Trish Walker
