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
Princess
5.5″x11″ mixed media painting on stone paper. There is a .25″ border.
This painting is available HERE
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
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
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!
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
The Girl With The Red Ribbon
This is a 6.25″x4.25″ mixed media piece on 100% rag paper.
Available on Etsy
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
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
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.
