Mixed Media Artist

Posts tagged “inspiration

Tell Me Your Secrets

Tell-Me-Your-Secrets

6″x36″ mixed media/encaustic painting on canvas. The sides are midnight blue and are 1.5″ deep.

Available HERE

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Roald Dahl


Together

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12″x36″ mixed media/encaustic painting on wood. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

This painting is available HERE

Available HERE


Balance

Balance-sm

8″ x16″ mixed media painting. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are painted red.

This painting is available HERE

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

 Paul Boese quotes


My Protector

My-Protector
9″x12″ mixed media painting on a wood cradle. The sides are 1.5″ deep and are red.
Available HERE
I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS


In Confidence

In-Confidence

10″x20″ mixed media/encaustic painting on wood cradle. The sides are 1.5″ and are painted red.

This painting is SOLD


You Never Leave My Thoughts (Memorial Day Painting)

You-Never-Leave-My-THoughts

6.5″x17.5″ mixed media painting on stone paper. There is a .25″ border.

This painting is available HERE

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  ~Claudia Ghandi


Watch Her Fly

Watch-Her-Fly

6.5″x17.5″ Mixed media painting on stone paper. There is a .25″ border.

This painting is available HERE

In less than a month I will have a ten year old. How did that happen?  I must remember to let her fly. I know I am over protective and sometimes my first instinct is to keep her caged. I must learn how to support her flight, to  encourage her to soar and to stand back and watch her fly.


Star Gazing

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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

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction

Antoine de Saint-Exupery


The Night Butterfly

The-Night-Butterfly

8″x16″ mixed media painting on rag paper. This piece will need to be framed and matted by you. There is a .25″ border.

This painting is available HERE


Givng You Hopes And Desire For April

‘Hopes and Desires’ is this months giveaway.  It is a fine art reproduction of my original. Printed on bamboo paper with archival inks and  mounted on a 3″x4″ wood stretcher.   (VALUE $25 on ETSY)

So recently I watched the  2001 German movie  ‘Mostly Martha’. I have seen it before but not since I have had children. I had forgotten how sad it was, even though it is billed as a romantic comedy.  I found myself literally sobbing for the eight year old girl in the movie. I guess that is what becoming a mother will do to you, it is unbearable to watch children suffer. Not that it was bearable before I had children but now, I literally feel physical pain in my heart when I hear about a child suffering.

Besides that, because , that is not what I wanted to talk about, this movie was a foodie movie.  Martha is a OCC head chef in an upscale restaurant in Germany.  The way she talks about food and the process of making it is just brilliant. I love watching the FOOD channel , I collect cookbooks and EPICURIOUS is my favorite APP on my iphone, so this movie really thrilled me.

Do you have a movie that has thrilled you like this? Taken something that you have a passion for and made it part of the characters’ life or the background through out  the movie? OR has a  book made you feel this way?

ALSO

If you have anymore foodie movies or books for me, please share. I am having a craving for them…

AND THEN…

I’ll put you name down for the draw at the end of the month and you might just win

your

HOPES AND DESIRES….


The Gift- SOLD

The-Gift

This is a new painting I did today. It is 9″x12″ on rag paper. It is a little bit of a self portrait but more of how I remember myself, rather than how I am right now. I hadn’t painted for awhile and I was trying to ease myself back into. Sometimes when I haven’t been able to get to the drawing board for an extended period of time I worry that I never will again and when I do I will be unable to draw at all. Today it was wonderful the way it all came together. I didn’t have to struggle to get back into it at all. It was a gift. And I have a gift and I know that sounds arrogant but I am acknowledging it so I can thank the Universe for giving it to me. It is no longer possible for me to waste this gift because the burning desire to use it is all consuming and that too is a gift. There was awhile in my life that I wondered why I was given this gift without the passion or inspiration to use it. It seemed so cruel. I didn’t realize that I had to USE my gift in order to find the passion and inspiration.

Available on Etsy


New Mini Canvas of Circus Girl

This is an original 2.5″x2.5″ mixed media painting of Circus Girl ( I think she is going to have an actual name very soon!) I am working on this character for a children’s book. Every now and then, I just have to paint her to get myself all inspired about this story again. She really is beautiful and I love painting her. After the disaster painting day yesterday I thought I should ease myself into painting by doing something that I know I love. The story is slowly coming together. I am trying not to rush it but maybe it is time for a little more of a tough love approach. My husband thinks so. I don’t know.