Indigo Koi
12″x18″ mixed media/encaustic painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are turquoise.
This painting is available HERE
This one is inspired by Monet’s Pond in Seki City, Japan
Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
Start Your Bidding!
Well, not yet but … It’s getting closer!
The Handmade Holiday Auction is starting on Monday November 28th. Are you excited? I am.
Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
Here are a couple more figurative originals that will be up for bidding:
Hauntingly Beautiful
8″x8″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red or turquoise.
The painting is available HERE
“As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda
Loving
12″x18″ mixed media painting with 1.5″ deep sides.
This painting is available HERE
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
Magic Totem
3″x 30″ on wood.
This painting will be available in the upcoming Holiday Auction.
Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
Move Toward The Unknown
4″x18.5″mixed media on paper with .25″ border. This painting will need to be matted and framed by you.
This painting is available HERE
“Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don’t want to and when we think we don’t need to.”
― Paulo Coelho
Good Fortune/ Midnight Tea
3″x18″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted turquoise.
This painting will be available in the upcoming online auction that I am participating in, staring November 28th and running until Dec 12th.
Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
Fine Art Reproductions
These mounted fine art reproductions will be available in the Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
MORE TO COME …
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
Auction starting on November 28
No Time For Sorrow
This mixed media painting will be available in the Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
Auction starting on November 28
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
~ William Blake
Believe In Your Heart
This mixed media painting will be available in the Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
Auction starting on November 28.
“Believe in Your Heart
Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
― Roy T. Bennett
Midnight Tea
This 3″x20.5″ mix media painting on rag paper will need to be matted and framed by you.
This one is cropped a bit too much on one side. You can actually see the full beak and more of the tail feathers of the crow in the original, as you can see in the below work in progress.
Available HERE
Dress Forms And Poppies
This mixed media painting will be available in the Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
Auction starting on November 28.
Counting Blessings
This mixed media painting will be available in the Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
Auction starting on November 28.
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
I love Elizabeth Gilbert. She changed my life. I read Eat, Pray, Love when I turned 40 and was inspired to start painting ‘for reals’. Her book and a lot of other things, just seemed to line up before me and make sense to my 40 year old brain. I know they say, “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear” … I was so ready and I am so grateful I had so many great teachers, Elizabeth being one of the best. If you haven’t read her new book, Big Magic, you should.
Other teachers I am grateful for? Julia Cameron, Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra all played a significant role in making me believe I am an artist and to quieten the voices that would say otherwise.
Thank you.
I leave you with this:
Tea Leaves
This mixed media painting is 6″x24″ and will be available in the Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
Auction starting on November 28.
TEA LEAVES
It’s not possible to see into the future. This is a good thing.
That said, I sure do waste a lot of time trying to predict it, change it … or just worry about it. Enough of that.
As I gaze into my cup of tea today, I will shut my eyes and enjoy the steam on my face. The warmth of the cup in my hand. The sweet smell. The taste.
I will not search the tea leaves for answers because that not only takes away the pleasure of the tea I am presently drinking, it may make my future tea taste bitter with resentment.
MPW
You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea. Nhat Hanh
Little Bee
7.5″x5″ mixed media painting on paper. This one has a .25″ border and will need to be matted and framed by you.
This painting is available HERE
“I’m your other half. (…) I’ll carry your heartbeat in mine.”
― Jessica Verday
My Moon And My Stars
This mixed media painting on rag paper will be available in the Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
To Be Still
This mixed media painting on rag paper will be available in the Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos Online Auction on Facebook.
For more info and to join this upcoming event go HERE
“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
David Foster Wallace
Little Dreamer
3″x6″ mixed media painting on wood. This little one will need to be matted and framed by you.
This painting is available HERE
“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
― Judith Thurman
Late Autumn
30″x30″ mixed media on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are red.
This painting is available HERE
Late Autumn, not here, but in Victoria, where I was born and lived for 28 years. I remember a big man’s coat that I wore when I was 17, it was not this colour but the collar and shoulders were like this, oversized. I wore a black turtleneck with it. It was really long too, that is what was in in 1985. I wore a long pencil skirt and flat pointy boots. I don’t know why but even though this painting does not look like me, the whole time I’ve been painting it, I felt like it was me, at this time. It was a special time. Maybe it was on my mind because my girls have been watching some Molly Ringwald movies from the 80’s lately. I looked a little like her at the time and I definitely dressed with her same flare, I had my own vintage style, that is for sure. I don’t often let myself get nostalgic about that time but with this painting I did a little. I don’t like looking back and I rarely listen to music or watch movies from that time. I don’t know why, but this painting conjured up those feelings and made me remember that girl. I liked her, she was pretty cool. This last year has been really hard for me. Sometimes I don’t even recognize myself at all when I look in the mirror. I definitely don’t recognize my breasts. It’s been just over year since I had my first mastectomy and I still find it difficult to look at them in the mirror. So maybe looking back a little and reminding myself of the girl I was is OK to do occasionally. Really, I am still that girl, the package is just a little different
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
― Shannon L. Alder.
The Enchanted Night Garden
This painting will be available to bid on during the Online Handmade Holiday Auction starting November 28th.
More info HERE
New Hand Mounted Reproductions Available In My Etsy Shop
8″x16″ mounted fine art print.
Sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red (see below)
Available HERE
8″x16″ mounted fine art print.
Sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red (see above)
Available HERE
These reproductions are all hand done by me and are hand signed front and back. It is hard to tell them from the original!
Tomorrow Is My Auction Day!
SURVIVAL AND TRIUMPH Auction on Facebook
To see the reproductions that are available in this auction go HERE
To see the originals that are available in this auction go HERE
Join the auction HERE
I get to share the stage with Ivette Newport, if you don’t know here work, you are in for a treat!
More details about How the auction works:
This auction will occur from October 12th at Noon EST. to Ocober 19th at 6pm EST.
Each day there will be two artists. Dates for each artist are a surprise. Their auction will run from 12 noon to 11:00 am EST the following day. Then the next two artists will begin at 12 noon and so on and so forth until all 14 artists are featured. Each artist will have approximately 15 items.
Each item will have a starting bid and a closing time as well as a shipping amount (please read the note on shipping below). Winning bid at the end of closing time wins the item. All times are EST. I will tag you when you win (if we are FB friends)
Payment and shipping costs are to be sent to the artist’s Paypal account within a few hours in USD, no later than 24 hours. Please be prompt with payment and pay as soon as you know you’ve won. I will post the winner for each item with a blurb that describes where to send the payment.
Some items will have a Buy it Now Price, if a buy it now price is hit, bidder wins it regardless of current bids. Please be sure to read carefully.
Some items are specifically to raise money for the film. They will be clearly marked DONATION. Buyer pays shipping and winning bid.
Items not bid on will be available at the starting bid or higher. Occassionally we have a wrap party and include items that did not get snatched up.
Sometimes we allow anonymous bidding but cannot guarantee this option will be available.
Shipping: Items will be shipped within 3-5 days after the auction. Please contact Misty for inquires on tracking and shipping info.
Shipping outside the U.S is at an additional cost.
Please feel free to comment on the pieces even if you are not placing a bid. The love and support at my auctions are part of what makes the process truly special. Thank you for being here!
If you would like to be tagged when certain pieces come up, please comment on the piece and say “Tag me” in the weeks before the auction.
Please only ask to be tagged if you intend on bidding.
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**This auction is not in any way affiliated with FB.
Dream Keepers In Progress …
Working on some original mixed media’dream keeper’ jewelry boxes for the upcoming online Holiday Auction in November.
The Survival And Triumph auction has began today! You will have to watch for my day! It is a surprise! This auction runs till Oct 19th. For more info, click HERE. Good Luck!
Wings On My Heart
This painting is 8″x 8″ and is painted on clayboard. It will need to be matted and framed by you.
This painting is available HERE.
My heart has wings
It flutters and leaps and bounds
It soars
It aches
It weeps,
And so do I.
My heart has wings
It soars
And above all
It loves
