Exhaling Stars
6.25″x17.5″ mixed media on stone paper. The border is .25″.
This painting is available HERE
Brave Little Soul
6″x13.5″ mixed media painting on rag paper. The sides are .25″ deep.
Available HERE
Dream Warrior
6.5″x17.5 mixed media painting on stone paper. This painting has a .25″ border.
Available HERE
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
Sunlight On My Crown
5.5″x13.5″ mixed media on stone paper. There is a .25″ border.
This painting is available HERE
I thought some of you might be interested in the process of a painting so I put this together.
Princess
5.5″x11″ mixed media painting on stone paper. There is a .25″ border.
This painting is available HERE
The Marvel Of Spring
6″x24″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and midnight blue.
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SOLD
She Wished Upon A Butterfly
6″x22″ mixed media painting on rag paper. This painting will need to be matted and framed by you. There is a .25″ border.
This painting is available HERE
Her Dreams Are Real
5.75″ x 15.5″ mixed media painting on rag paper. This painting with need to be matted and framed by you. There is a .25″ border.
This painting is available HERE
Small Corset (Squeeze Me Valentine)
14″x5.5″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted turquoise
This painting is available HERE
Corset #5 (Squeeze Me Valentine)
16″x20″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted turquoise
This painting is available HERE
Unruffled
8″x10″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are paid turquoise.
Available HERE
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
Circus Acrobat With Feathers
5.5″x15″ mixed media painting on rag paper. There is s .25″ border. This painting will need to be matted and framed.
This painting is available HERE or directly from me maria@mariapacewynters.com
Corset #3
This is a 9″x12″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are turquoise.
This painting is SOLD
To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
Anna Held
Corset #1 and Corset #2
6″x12″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are a continuum of the painting.
This painting is available HERE
5″x7″ mixed media painting on rag paper. There is a .25″ border. This painting will need to be matted and framed by you.
This painting is available HERE
Squeeze Me, Valentine
5.5″x4″ mixed media painting on rag paper. The painting has a .25″ border and will need to be framed and matted by you.
This painting is SOLD
contact me directly maria@mariapacewynters.com
Blue Poppy
5″x7″ mixed media painting on rag paper. The painting has a .25″ border and will need to be framed and matted by you.
This painting is available HERE or contact me directly maria@mariapacewynters.com
MAY 2011 Give Away…
Lost In You and, 3″x4″ fine art reproduction mounted on wood (sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red). It is available for sale on ETSY.
This month, I am running a little behind. It has been a busy few weeks and I anticipate another few to come.
Anyway, I am just loving the blog Joy The Baker. You should check it out but I warn you, you may put several pounds on just browsing through this YUMMY blog! The photos are so delightful as is her writing. I think I may have a slight crush on this blogger, or at least on her aesthetics!
Do you have a favorite food blog that you can share with me? I know, I am all about the food. What can I say, it is my passion!
I anticipate some scrummy responses and for your trouble, I will put your name down for a chance to win the above reproduction!
(If your can’t think of a food blog, that is ok, just say ‘hi’ and I will put your name in the hat).
OK, GO!
Whisper Me Sweet Somethings
This is a 8″x24″ mixed media painting on wood. the sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is available HERE
When I was a little girl, I know I have mentioned this before, I would draw for hours, making up stories about the character I was drawing. I would talk out loud to my self. Perhaps reciting the imagined dialogue I was giving them, changing their costumes, hair and make up. This was my favorite thing to do. It was so much fun, I never bored with it.
Sometimes you forget that ‘fun’ part when you grow up. Sometimes you just start going through the motions, not engaged in the moment. Why do we do that, when it is so much more fun to be engaged? To fully immerse yourself in it.
(Ha, ha I could be talking about cooking dinner, couldn’t I? We can just apply this to anything and everything).
This painting is a reminder that, my favorite thing to do is to paint characters. To make-believe these character and then try my best to breathe life into them.
WHISPER ME SWEET SOMETHINGS
She had long tired of sweet nothings.
How many nothings had she heard in her life time?
She longed for somethings to be whispered to her
Slow,steady and sure
somethings
told to her in truth
Lasting somethings
Not
wishing nothings
Givng You Hopes And Desire For April
‘Hopes and Desires’ is this months giveaway. It is a fine art reproduction of my original. Printed on bamboo paper with archival inks and mounted on a 3″x4″ wood stretcher. (VALUE $25 on ETSY)
So recently I watched the 2001 German movie ‘Mostly Martha’. I have seen it before but not since I have had children. I had forgotten how sad it was, even though it is billed as a romantic comedy. I found myself literally sobbing for the eight year old girl in the movie. I guess that is what becoming a mother will do to you, it is unbearable to watch children suffer. Not that it was bearable before I had children but now, I literally feel physical pain in my heart when I hear about a child suffering.
Besides that, because , that is not what I wanted to talk about, this movie was a foodie movie. Martha is a OCC head chef in an upscale restaurant in Germany. The way she talks about food and the process of making it is just brilliant. I love watching the FOOD channel , I collect cookbooks and EPICURIOUS is my favorite APP on my iphone, so this movie really thrilled me.
Do you have a movie that has thrilled you like this? Taken something that you have a passion for and made it part of the characters’ life or the background through out the movie? OR has a book made you feel this way?
ALSO
If you have anymore foodie movies or books for me, please share. I am having a craving for them…
AND THEN…
I’ll put you name down for the draw at the end of the month and you might just win
your
HOPES AND DESIRES….
Lost In Your Dreams ( A Work In Progress)
This is a 18″x14″ mixed media painting in wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is SOLD
This painting is not a work in progress. It is complete. Our subject, however, just may be a work in progress, just as we all are. Living our lives on a day-to-day to basis. Doing the best we can.
I had a lot of things going around my head as I painted this one. I was thinking about how when we are young, we sometimes give up our authentic selves in order to be accepted in a group, or perhaps by a love interest. Sometimes we try so hard to become what we feel we need to be, we totally lose sight of who we really are. We try to blend in, to fit, to please, not realizing that, being untrue to who we really are will never lead to happiness.
As a mother of two young girls, intellectually, I realize that helping my children to have self-confidence and self-respect is crucial. Emotionally, however, I find it difficult when they question everything that I tell them and make choices that I would not make. If I don’t let them make their own choices about these small things at this young age, how are they going to have the skills to make good descion when the stake are higher? If I expect them to bend to my way, all of the time, why would I expect that they wouldn’t bend to other people as well?
It is like walking a tightrope, trying to raise children that are considerate and respectful but also have their own ideas and purpose.
These are the titles that I wrote down as I painted this one:
Falling Into You
Becoming You
Becoming Me
I Become You
You Become Me
Blending In
Falling Into Me
Lost In Your Dreams
Lost In You
Don’t Forget You
Harlequin’s Yellow Birds
This is a 14″x18″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5 ” deep and are red.
This painting is SOLD
Art Gallery Of Alberta
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March Give Away…
I am missing my spring of days gone by. Snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils … the only flowers in my life right now are the ones that I am painting. January and February have been bitter this year. It is always about this time of year that I really start to miss the season of ‘spring’. Knowing that it is a good few months away isn’t helpful. I shaved my legs and painted my toenails the other day in hope that they may see the light of day soon but alas, I know that this is ridiculous folly on my part. I truly hate my winter coat and boots right now.
I have chosen this reproduction to give away for march.. The subject is more ‘summer’ than ‘spring’ but the colour palette is very ‘springlike’ to me.
So my question to you is, what is your favorite thing about this season? Maybe I can live vicariously through all of you …
Just write you answer in the comment section of this post and I will put your name down for a draw at the end of the month.
