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Float Above It

 

Float-Above-it

This  is a mixed media/encaustic painting on wood. It is  12″ x36″  and has 1.5″ deep sides that are red.

This painting is available HERE

When you’re in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That’s the consolation of philosophy.

David Cronenberg

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there’s something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it’s fleeting, and it’s temporal.

Pete Docter


Brave Little Soul

Brave-Little-Soul

6″x13.5″ mixed media painting on rag paper. The sides are .25″ deep.

Available HERE


Dream Warrior

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

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.

photo


The Prayer

The-Prayer

5.5″ x8″ mixed media painting on stone paper. There is a .25″ border.

This painting is available HERE


The Flamenco Dancers

The-Flamenco-Dancers

8″x12″ mixed media painting on stone paper. There is a .25″ border.

This painting is available HERE


The Wonder Of It

The-Wonder-Of-It

6″x36″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted midnight blue.

This painting is available HERE


The Marvel Of Spring

The Marvel Of Spring

6″x24″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and midnight blue.

Click on this image to see it larger.

SOLD


She Wished Upon A Butterfly

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


Corset #7 – Happy Valentine’s Day!

Corset-#-7

12″x16″ mixed media on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are turquoise.

This painting is available HERE


Circus Acrobat With Feathers

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


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!


The Feathered Hat

This is a 9″x12″ mixed media painting on wood.  The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.

This painting is SOLD

Katie Burley hats available HERE.

I really hope Katie doesn’t mind me painting another painting of one of her beautiful hats.

I could NEVER  actually own a hat like this. My cat Beijing would go crazy for it. He attacks anthing with feathers, fur or wool.  No surprise, he is an indoor cat. Poor thing.  Although come to think about it, he doesn’t  just go for natural fibres.  He has a thing about the girls Ariel doll with the long red hair. He carries her around by her hair.  He IS a ginger, so I guess he is partial to red heads.


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


Art Gallery Of Alberta

MY SMALL BLOCK FINE ART REPRODUCTIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT
THE ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA GALLERY SHOP

BUY ONE AND SUPPORT ME AND THE ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA …IT IS A WIN, WIN!


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.


Lift Me Up


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.

This is a little different for me. More illustrative and a bit minimal. No cut out butterflies or flowers. It was hard to leave it like that. Knowing when to stop can be half the battle, hey?

maria@mariapacewynters.com


Wonderland

This is a 9″x12″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is SOLD

Happy Valentine’s day, I hope that you are all having a great day. Remember to enter this month’s give away.

maria@mariapacewynters.com


I Can See My Dreams


(CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW)
This is a18″x 36″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 2″ deep and are painted deep turquoise with some added butterflies and flower motif.
This painting is $1250 + shipping and is available HERE. It is being displayed at The Highlevel Diner currently.

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My dreams are just

there
In sight
Yet
slightly different than I imagined
Maybe better

I can see them
Like my breath
on the coldest day

Beautiful


Hopes And Desires


This is a 18″x14″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas.
This painting is available HERE.

We have all experienced dream crushers in our life. Those people that think it is their job to inform us that are dreams are impractical or unrealistic. Growing up working for my parents at their small Inn in Victoria, I met many people, strangers really , the felt that it was up to them to tell me that my desire to be an artist was just plain silly.
‘Art is hobby’ one couple told my sixteen year old self as I poured them coffee for breakfast.
It is amazing to me, when I think back, at how many people told me this. It got to the point that I stopped telling people what I was studying or what my goals were.
Their comments did not changed my desire to be an artist but they did make me feel that it was perhaps a hopeless dream. After all, how do you BECOME an artist? Sure you can go to college and university but let me tell you a little secret, it is not much different there. My professors may have well been those people that I served at sixteen. They were actually teaching us that being an artist for a living was a crazy idea and not only THAT, but if you did manage to make an living as an artist, it must mean that you have sold out.
HUH?
It is no surprise that I remained confused about my desire to be an artist for a very long time. Until I turned forty, actually.
What changed when I turned forty? I was able to turn off those dream crusher voices in my head and realize that the way to become an artist is to create art. As often as possible. End of story. There is no great mystery here. Maybe I am not making as much money as some one with a ‘real job’ but holey moley, I am doing something that I LOVE TO DO.
There is value in that.
There is joy in that.
There is something so SACRED about that.

The thing that makes me so crazy is that, as a parent, I work so hard to cultivate and encourage my children’s dreams and yet one person can come along and destroy it all with a few ‘helpful’ words. So remember, next time a young person tells you what they want to do with their life, just listen, bite your tongue if you have to. Don’t be a dream crusher, be a dream cultivator. *************************************************************************************************

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

-Robert Kiyosak

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

-Kahlil Gibran

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

-Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans


Dream Me Up


This is a 6″x36″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The the sides are 1.5″ are gold leaf and turquoise.
This painting is available HERE.

I am setting up at the Highlevel Diner tomorrow morning. My paintings will be there for the next three months so drop by and take a look.
AND
While you are in line to get a table, you can pick up Mosaic magazine, I am the featured artist.
TOOT, TOOT.


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