Independent Will
18″x24″ mix media/encaustic painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red. This painting is available in my Etsy shop HERE or directly from me maria@mariapacewynters.com
Layaway is available for this painting.
The inspiration behind this painting:
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Charlotte Brontë
This last week in Alberta, Canada we elected someone into power who is threatened by people who do not fit into a tidy neat little box. It wasn’t a surprise to me, I knew Jason Kenney was going to get elected. For all of the time I have lived in Alberta, the conservatives have been in power. The last four years have a been an anomaly. I do not want to get political. I try to avoid it at all costs but this is not about politics. This is about human rights.
It hurts my heart to know that people from the LGBTQ community are worried and scared because the UCP have a majority government. We have to stand up for these human beings, because it starts with taking away their rights and ends with taking away all of our rights. No person, group or government should hold the power to take away another’s free will. We are all free… we are no birds … we are not ensnared in a net (YET) … we are free human beings with independent will. We must stand together for this to remain true. We must stand up against anyone that tries to impede that freedom for our fellow human beings. We cannot be silent.
Star Gazing
6″x24″ mixed media/encaustic painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted midnight blue.
This painting is available HERE
Missing You
6″X12″ mixed media painting/encaustic on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
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
Looking Forward
6″x11″ mixed media on stone paper. There is a .25″ border.
This painting is available HERE
The Prayer
5.5″ x8″ mixed media painting on stone paper. There is a .25″ border.
This painting is available HERE
The Flamenco Dancers
8″x12″ mixed media painting on stone paper. There is a .25″ border.
This painting is available HERE
Magic In The Moonlight
24″x36″ mixed media/encaustic painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are midnight blue.
This painting is available HERE
Small Corset #3
4″x6″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted turquoise.
maria@mariapacewynters.com
Small Corset 2
4″x6″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are turquoise.
This painting is available HERE
Corset #7 – Happy Valentine’s Day!
12″x16″ mixed media on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are turquoise.
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
The Summer Garden (The Poppy Walk Lrg.)
This is a 18″x18″ mixed media painting on canvas. The sides are painted red and are 3″deep.
More poppies…’tis the season.
This painting is available HERE.
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.
The Little Princess
This is a 5″x7″ mixed media painting on paper. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is available HERE.
Deep in thought …
Being a princess isn’t always easy…
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
