This is a mixed media triptych painting on wood, 6″x8″, 8″x6″, 4″x6″. The sides are painted pink ( same pink that is in the painting).
SOLD

Tomorrow I hand over my paintings so they can hang my show. I am really excited now that all the hard work is done.
But…
Part of me wants to just send Chris to drop them off. I can be such a coward sometimes. This is why I feel so comfortable hiding out on the internet. Hiding behind my blog and my etsy store. You don’t have to confront anyone face to face, it is so much easier!
But I can’t do that.
So, I will try to quiet my butterflies and fake it tomorrow. Isn’t that what Oprah said to do?
‘Look how confident I am’.
Hopefully none of them read my blog or my cover will be blown and they will know that I am just a big scaredy cat nerd and not cool, not one -little- bit.
(Although, I have a sneaking suspicion that they may all ready know this, even without this inside information!)

This is a 8″x24″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted coral red.
This painting is available HERE.

….Maureen Boucher! Congratulations to you!

OK, when you watch this video, check out baby Franken-Lola and how she walks down the hall. It is a scream!

This is a 6″x6″ mixed media painting on paper. SOLD

Happy Halloween …..the draw will be later today!

This is a 6″x6″ mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1″ deep and are painted red.
This painting is $65 + shipping and is available HERE.

A little harlequin for Halloween. A little reprise from flowers and butterflies, although I guess I could have painted her with bats flying out from the top of her head. Maybe another day.
There is much ‘Halloweening’ going on in the house today. Both Imogen and Scarlett had to go to school in costume. This year they decided to be Evil Princess, thankfully, as this was a relatively easy costume for me! They looked amazing. I will post pictures later or maybe better than pictures … Halloween night is the night of the MONTHLY REPRODUCTION GIVE AWAY so perhaps they can do the draw in costume! You’ll have to wait and see and if you haven’t put your name down for the draw DO IT NOW!

This is a 24″x72″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ and are painted dark turquoise.
This painting is $2500 and may be purchase directly from the artist maria@mariapacewynters.com
The feeling of having butterflies is a good feeling. Really. It means we are doing something new and exciting. A large part of my life I avoided butterflies at all cost. As I have gotten older, I realize that those butterflies are what life is all about. They represent the ‘good stuff’. Being so ALIVE that you are actually vibrating. I hope that my daughters embrace their butterflies, I know that I will have sympathy butterflies for them through out their lives. Which is great because that means that I am alive X 3!

This is a 6″x36″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ and are painted red.
This painting is SOLD
I am speaking of dreams. You can’t hide them or deny them. Your buried dreams come back to haunt you in the form of regret. But dreams can be a burden even if you recognize and embrace them daily by trying to accomplish them, once you’ve dreamed them up there is no putting them to bed , they are out there, reminding us of what we hope for and what we are striving for. We constantly hold a measuring stick up against them; am I there yet? Is this what I wanted, or was it something more? To be honest, do we ever really come to the point where we can say, “now I have done it”. We are forever thinking of new dreams, new aspirations, the next goal that we want to achieve. And thank goodness, really, otherwise life would be rather dull. The difference between the burden of dreams unrealized and dreams ignored is regret. The difference between the burden of dreams unrealized and dreams ignored is YOU. Maybe you can feel frustrated or dissatisfied with not actually getting your dreams to where you want them to be but knowing that you really tried, and I mean really tried, is the real difference .

This is a 18″x 36″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 3″ deep and are painted red, red, red.

She is free to dream … and that freedom is powerful.

This is a 48″x48″ mixed media painting on paper covered canvas. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are red.
This painting is available HERE

Sometimes I look at my children and am overwhelmed by their beauty. Their beautiful innocence. As a mother I want to try to protect this beauty, to keep it as long as I can. Sometimes I wonder if my protection is a burden that I make them carry around. Sometimes my quest for perfection has opposite result, as with most things, forcing things to work or to fit ‘naturally’ doesn’t often work at all. When you are so uptight about making everything ‘just so’, you can miss all the other stuff. It may not be what you were planning but can be surprisingly better than you ever imagined. Sometimes we can’t possibly dream big enough and we have to know when to let go of preconceived ‘dreams’ and let life unfold. I know that the quest for beauty in my life will never end. I can’t help but romanticize things, it is just who I am. I am a dreamer but I am also a bit a of a control freak. I hope that I can step back and let my children dream too. Their own dreams, not my idea of what their dreams should be.