Little Halloween Harlequin Smiles
This is a 6″x6″ mixed media painting on paper. SOLD
Happy Halloween …..the draw will be later today!
Little Halloween Harlequin
This is a 6″x6″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is $65 + shipping and is available HERE.
A little harlequin for Halloween. A little reprise from flowers and butterflies, although I guess I could have painted her with bats flying out from the top of her head. Maybe another day.
There is much ‘Halloweening’ going on in the house today. Both Imogen and Scarlett had to go to school in costume. This year they decided to be Evil Princess, thankfully, as this was a relatively easy costume for me! They looked amazing. I will post pictures later or maybe better than pictures … Halloween night is the night of the MONTHLY REPRODUCTION GIVE AWAY so perhaps they can do the draw in costume! You’ll have to wait and see and if you haven’t put your name down for the draw DO IT NOW!
Butterflies
This is a 24″x72″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ and are painted dark turquoise.
This painting is $2500 and may be purchase directly from the artist maria@mariapacewynters.com
The feeling of having butterflies is a good feeling. Really. It means we are doing something new and exciting. A large part of my life I avoided butterflies at all cost. As I have gotten older, I realize that those butterflies are what life is all about. They represent the ‘good stuff’. Being so ALIVE that you are actually vibrating. I hope that my daughters embrace their butterflies, I know that I will have sympathy butterflies for them through out their lives. Which is great because that means that I am alive X 3!
Aspirations
This is a mixed media diptych on wood.
The sides are 1″ deep and are turquoise.
SOLD
Painting, painting, painting….eating it, breathing it, living it …. these are my aspirations…but they are tiring.
They Won’t Be Forgotten
This is a 6″x36″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ and are painted red.
This painting is SOLD
I am speaking of dreams. You can’t hide them or deny them. Your buried dreams come back to haunt you in the form of regret. But dreams can be a burden even if you recognize and embrace them daily by trying to accomplish them, once you’ve dreamed them up there is no putting them to bed , they are out there, reminding us of what we hope for and what we are striving for. We constantly hold a measuring stick up against them; am I there yet? Is this what I wanted, or was it something more? To be honest, do we ever really come to the point where we can say, “now I have done it”. We are forever thinking of new dreams, new aspirations, the next goal that we want to achieve. And thank goodness, really, otherwise life would be rather dull. The difference between the burden of dreams unrealized and dreams ignored is regret. The difference between the burden of dreams unrealized and dreams ignored is YOU. Maybe you can feel frustrated or dissatisfied with not actually getting your dreams to where you want them to be but knowing that you really tried, and I mean really tried, is the real difference .
Free
This is a 18″x 36″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 3″ deep and are painted red, red, red.
She is free to dream … and that freedom is powerful.
The Dreamer (Overwhelming Beauty)
This is a 48″x48″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are red.
This painting is available HERE
Sometimes I look at my children and am overwhelmed by their beauty. Their beautiful innocence. As a mother I want to try to protect this beauty, to keep it as long as I can. Sometimes I wonder if my protection is a burden that I make them carry around. Sometimes my quest for perfection has opposite result, as with most things, forcing things to work or to fit ‘naturally’ doesn’t often work at all. When you are so uptight about making everything ‘just so’, you can miss all the other stuff. It may not be what you were planning but can be surprisingly better than you ever imagined. Sometimes we can’t possibly dream big enough and we have to know when to let go of preconceived ‘dreams’ and let life unfold. I know that the quest for beauty in my life will never end. I can’t help but romanticize things, it is just who I am. I am a dreamer but I am also a bit a of a control freak. I hope that I can step back and let my children dream too. Their own dreams, not my idea of what their dreams should be.
THIS WEEKEND- Heart & Soul – A Designer Collective
A weekend to discover an array of handmade wonders:
Women’s clothing, jewelry and accessories: including one of a kind hats + handbags, semi precious stones, sterling silver and framed textile jewelry. Also belts, buckles, clutches and recycled sweater mittens. Items for your home including: printed ceramic dishes, paintings, photography, journals, printed pillows, cookies and other yummy goodies.
Designers include: Bronsino & Patina Designs, Corissa Spring O’Donnell, edit mittens, Flight Path Designs, Horn of Plenty, jennchic cooks, kari woo, Lines Designs, Maria Pace-Wynters, Shi Studio, Soma Designs, Sugar Soul Studio and Sabrina Butterfly Designs.
Friday, October 15th: 4-9 pm (opening night: wine & cheese, no minors pls)
Saturday, October 16th: 9-4 pm (everyone welcome)
Sunday, October 17th: 11-3 pm (everyone welcome)
Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard (between the Strathcona Farmer’s Market & New York Bagel Cafe)
(EDMONTON)
FREE ADMISSION!!!!
Faith- In Progress
This is a 9″x12″ mixed media painting on wood.
This is in progress and the working title is ‘faith’ but I am not sure if that is a keeper.
The idea of Faith and the actual word ‘faith’ has been creeping up in my life a lot lately.
Something that you know in your heart even if it doesn’t make sense in your head. This is what faith is. I believe in my heart that my husband has not been given the ability to write beautiful music so that he can work in an office.
This I believe for myself as well. Surely if you are given talent, inspiration and drive you should continue on. Not blindly, no, not blind faith but calculated faith? Perhaps?
The faith to be an artist and know that somehow you are going to be able to pay the bills next month.
The faith that your cat will return after a week.
The faith that you will have enough paintings for your upcoming show.
The faith that those paintings won’t be complete stinkers.
The faith that people won’t see through your confident facade.
The faith that you can keep having the faith.
‘The Cardinal’s Song’ Has Been Chosen…
…as October’s MONTHLY give away! It won by a whopping 52%! The other two were divided pretty equally, although I noticed that the ‘Dreaming Inspiration’ people were less vocal than the ‘I Talked To A Crow’ people. No matter, the winner has been chosen.
SO here is the deal, you write a comment on this blog entry and then, at the end of October, I will have a draw and the winner will be mailed a 6″x8″ OOAK fine art reproduction of ‘The Cardinal’s Song’. Cool huh? And so easy! So do it now!
Hold On
This is a 6″x8″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are red.
This painting is $80 + shipping and is available HERE.
Look Up
This is a 6″x8″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted tangerine.
SOLD
Presently I have so much to do that I can’t possibly look forward in fear of not having enough time, or even worse, back, at time wasted.
My only answer is to look up..
From Silence I Emerge (Diptych)
This is a 18″x18″ and a 18″x36″ mixed media painting on canvas. I am still mulling this one over. Almost done, if not done. The colour in this diptych painting actually DOES match. Not sure what is up with that. I guess I will need to re-do the photo of the bottom one as the colour seems faded while the top one is true. Just thought you might be interested in what I am up to. I think that I like the diptych idea, although I really feel like I have NO perspective of what I am doing right now. A little a bit of not being able to see the forest because of the tree, I think. Well, we all know cutting down the trees isn’t going help so instead I am just trusting that the forest is there and that it will become clearer with a little distance.
(The white band is not part of the painting).
UPDATE:
SOLD
You Pick The Next Reproduction Give Away!
Here are the three images I am thinking about form the next give away but I would love your opinion! Go ahead and cast your vote!
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AND THE WINNER IS…..
ARIE!!!!!!
The draw is complete! The girls were excited to to participate but I think a little stunned that it was over so quick. Anyway, congrats to Arie, you are the winner!
I am sorry to all that didn’t win, you are all so deserving! Next month there will be another chance to win, so don’t forget to stop by and leave a comment on the chosen reproduction! I have decided to have a little poll to pick the October reproduction give away. I will post three images to choose from in the next day, so please come back and vote!
(If your heart is broken and you feel that you just can’t LIVE without this OOAK fine art reproduction, it is available on ETSY in various sizes starting at $20 and going up to $60.)
Love to you all, and thanks for participating in my first monthly draw!
