Try To Follow Them…
This is a 9″x12″ mixed media painting on wood. This painting is 1.5″ deep and the sides are painted turquoise green.
This painting is available HERE.
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.”
Louisa May Alcott
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
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.
My Beloved’s Dreams
This is 12″x24″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is available HERE.
Febuary Give Away!
OK, time to pick what this month’s OOAK reproduction give away will be! I have decided to go with this one titled ‘LOVE’…
…. and speaking of love, what candy do you love or have loved? Do you have a trashy favorite? A guilty pleasure?
I thought about this topic yesterday and then, lo and behold, someone asked Justin Bieber the same question and I knew, this had to be synchronicity. The clincher was that he mentioned MY guilty pleasure … I love bigfoot candies.
I know, not really classy but if the Biebster likes them how wrong can I be? (Don’t answer that).
My other favorite , maple sugar candies… I have always had a weakness for them ever since I was a kid.
Two more, white bon bon’s and licorice and sherbet from the British candy shop. (The Brit’s have great candy, let’s face it).
So tell me your candy secret, you could win this 5″x7″ reproduction if you do ….
as usual, the draw will be at the end of this short month.
(Hopefully I won’t put on 10 pounds because I know that I will be tempted to try all of your delicious candy picks!)
Love At First Sight
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.
Ahhh, love at first sight.
I remember my first sight of my baby girls. It was instant love. I look at them now and I wish I could just make them small like that for one more instant. Just to hold them against me again when they were that small.
So instead, I grab them, wiggling and pulling, laughing and whining
‘Mamma, let go!’
and I hold them and kiss them for as long as they will allow.
I love them even more now,
at every sight.
The Winner For January 2011 Is…
…LYNN MAMET!!!
Yeah you!
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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:
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
