Awaking Dreams
This is a 8″x10″mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5 and are painted red.
This painting is available HERE.
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
~ Henry Van Dyke
Dream Magic
This is 6″x12″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is available HERE.
Shining Hope
This is a 8″x8″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is available HERE.
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”
~ Anne Lamott
Technicolour Dreams
This is a 6″x8″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is available HERE.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Lovely Dreamer
This is a 6″x8″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is $80 and is available HERE.
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
Shel Silverstein
I love my children so much. They are my dreams. When I look at them I can’t help but thinking that ‘anything’ truly can be. Thanks Mr. Silverstein for encouraging children to dream.
Freeing
This is a 6″x12″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted turquoise.
This painting is $90 and is available HERE.
On ‘Freeing’:
I have to say, I have always felt that wearing men’s ware as a women is not only incredibly sexy but very freeing as well. I am not sure that men feel this way but I have always loved stars that have opted to go this route. Think Katherine Hepburn, Diane Keaton, Marlene Dietrich and even Madonna. I guess I just really like the fact that you don’t have to be showing all that much skin and still have amazing sex appeal. It is kind of empowering. Like I said, not sure if the guys actually like it. I remember going to a school dance dressed up as Charlie Chaplin and I can tell you, I didn’t dance at all that evening. Perhaps a mustache on a woman is never that sexy and, in retrospect, going to a dance at an all boys school and dressed up as a ‘boy’ is probably not the greatest idea I’ve ever had, even if it was Halloween.
MATISSE FOR INSPIRATION:
This Saturday we had our first art lesson in the loft. Having just all seen the local art gallery’s exhibit of Matisse, I decided that this would be an excellent jumping off point.
Here is what the girls’ created.
( Scarlett was a little creative with the blue eyeshadow before we even got started!)
Meg, signs her creation.
I think they all did a wonderful job!
Dreaming Of You
This is a 9″x12″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is $145 and is available HERE.
maria@mariapacewynters.com
The Moody Dreamer
This is a 4″x6″ mixed media painting. The sides are painted turquoise and .75″ deep.
This painting is $55 and is available HERE.
Scarlett is not the best at getting up in the morning. She is moody to say the least. She comes by it honestly. I am not a morning person. She was special helper at preschool today which was great because it gives me something to wake her with.
“Scarlett, time to get up! Remember, you are special helper today!”
She literally FLEW out of bed!
I need to have one of these motivators every morning, it made life so much easier!
My Red Crown and Cape
This is a 6″x8″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are painted red and are 1.5″ deep.
This painting is $80 and is available HERE.
Yesterday, Scarlett was telling me what her day at preschool was like.
SCARLETT: We went to the gym and I played super hero with Atticus … no, actually, Atticus was a super villain, not a super hero.
ME: Oh, what was his super villain powers?
Scarlett: (Looking at me with much pity and disbelief) He didn’t TELL me.
ME: Oh right. Well, what was your super power?
SCARLETT: ( standing up and putting her right arm in the air) CLEANING!
ME: Now that IS a good super power.
(Here is hoping that this super hero comes for a visit to our house because I am pretty sure her arch-nemesis is living here!)
I love the way kids play super hero. My girls have had their moments, but the desire to be a princess is always stronger. I think that the cape is more of a boy thing. I remember a long time ago, before I even had kids, knowing a woman who had a boy who would not leave his house without his cape. I love that.
Three Poppy Pods
5″x7″ and is available HERE
This Is It
4″x6″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. Sides are red and are .75″ deep.
This painting is $60 and is available HERE.
I am not sure why I name this painting ‘This Is It’. Her expression just seems like she means business. No messing around with her.
REMEMBER, you have till the end of the month to get in on the monthly give away! GO HERE
You Have My Heart
This is a 6″x12″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ and painted red.
This painting is $120 and is available HERE.
Looking on with love.
Who has her heart?
Daddy of course!
This weekend I had a birthday and what a nice present, I had two wonderful artists post my art on their beautiful blogs!
Please take a look:
Onward…
This is a 6″x8″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The canvas is 1.5″ deep and is painted RED.
This painting is $80 and is available HERE.
Two more days of 42…onward to 43. YIKES! How is that possible???
maria@mariapacewynters.com
The Swoon
This is a 5″x7″ mixed media painting on Paper covered canvas. The sides are .5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is $70 and is available HERE.
LOVE … ahhhh….swoon …..pine…swoon….ahhhh…LOVE.
I swoon when I look at my children.
I still swoon when I look at my husband, especially when he wears his glasses and that black winter hat.
That is good, swooning is good.
I swoon when I look at my girls baby photos.
I swoon when I think of the west coast.
These things make me weak in the knees.
I pine for these things when I don’t have them around me.
I can pine for the craziest things.
I am a simple person really.
Clean sheets.
A really good dinner that everyone loves and came together in a snap.
A basket of clean folded laundry.
An organized fridge.
A shiny kitchen floor.
Yummy smelling freshly washed children.
Sleeping children.
Laughing children.
A latte made by my personal barristo,
My Mom and Dad.
Chris’ voice.
A really great, inspiring conversation with my friends.
Movie popcorn.
Heavy blankets on a cold night.
The sound of live music being played in my house.
Eating dinner when it is still light out.
A hot bath.
Eating crinkle french fries on the beach …
…are just a few of the things that I pine and swoon for…
maria@mariapacewynters.com
Dream On- Dream Fairy
This is a 5″x7″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The side are .5″ and are painted coral.
This painting is $70 and is available HERE.
maria@mariapacewynters.com
Black Swan, Guide Me To Morning
This is a 16″x20″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1″ deep and are painted turquoise.
This painting is $200 and is SOLD
“The swan is a totem of beauty and grace. As in the story of the Ugly Duckling, it connotes inner beauty as well. If Swan is your totem animal, you are emotionally sensitive, and empathic towards the feelings of others, and you draw people to you. The pure white swan is a solar symbol, whereas the Australian Black Swan is a nocturnal symbol. The swan, with its long neck, acts as a bridge between the worlds, making it an oracular bird. Being a cool weather bird, its direction is North. Swans are excellent totems for children, those connected to the Fairy Realm, poets, bards, mystics, and dreamers.” (Animal Speak, page 196)
Animal-Speak, the Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small, by Ted Andrews, Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, 1994
The Plaid Pierrot
This is a 6″x6″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted turquoise.
This painting is $65 and is available HERE.
Enter January give away.
First Give Away Of 2011- Marvel, Dream
I like the question idea from the last give away. We all have a lot to be grateful for, that is clear.
I’ve been thinking about what my January topic should be. I was going to ask what your resolutions for the new year are or what you want from this upcoming year but instead, I am going to ask for a name of a book or movie that has inspired or effected you in some way.( Or Perhaps, it just made you feel warm inside. ) I have been watching the TV lately and everything seems so glum and dismal and I don’t don’t want to start the year off like that. Let’s exchange inspiring and uplifting books/movies to one another. Wouldn’t that be fun?
My first offer is non fiction:
“The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. Read it, do it and change your life.
My second offer is fiction:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Just such a great story. I could read it again and again.
My Movie recommendations is:
Alice by Woody Allen. This movie is such a wonderful fairy tale and a real reminder that living authentically is the only way.
I will offer up some more as the month goes on.
I’d love to hear from you and if I do, your name could be drawn at the end of the month to win a 5″x6″ OOAK reproduction on canvas of the below painting.
Write your suggestion(s) in the comment section of this post. I am really looking forward this!
‘Marvel, Dream’
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 83,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 4 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 179 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 474 posts. There were 260 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 119mb. That’s about 5 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was April 19th with 654 views. The most popular post that day was First Frost.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were dailypainters.com, networkedblogs.com, mariapacewynters.com, mail.live.com, and facebook.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for maria pace wynters, mixed media painting, circus, circus paintings, and mixed media art.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
First Frost October 2009
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Monthly Give Away September 2010
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IF ‘Breezy’ – Girl With Red Balloon March 2009
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A Winter Day February 2010
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Me Tube February 2010
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