New Art- Watch Tower

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‘Watch Tower’
20″ x 24″ x 1.5″
Oils
Gallery wrapped canvas, painted sides, ready to hang
Available for purchase at the BAD! Kitty Art Studio Web Site

Here is the quote that goes along with this work:

“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

Watch Tower is a self challenge work for me. I’ve had this tower in my head for a long time, and I never really knew how to accomplish it…then I woke up one morning last week and knew that it was tower painting day. This work took over a week to create; as it is heavily glazed to create depth and drama. The colors sing and the tower glows, even in the dark side, the details of the building are visible, but they are in deep shade. I had some Ah-HA! moments with this work and I feel really great about sharing it with you all. I hope you enjoy it.

I also got all fired up and created three new calendars for 2010! To see them all click here!

Or you can see them one at a time:
#1 http://www.redbubble.com/people/hmbt/calendars/4096665-1-bad-kittys-2010-calendar

#2 http://www.redbubble.com/people/hmbt/calendars/4096689-1-change-is-good-2010-calendar

#3 http://www.redbubble.com/people/hmbt/calendars/4097015-1-something-old-something-new-2010-calendar

Have a great day and thanks for being here today!
Heather
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Freeing My Soul Today

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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"Our nervous system developed for one sole purpose, to maintain our lives and satisfy our needs.

All our reflexes serve this purpose.

This makes us utterly egotistic.

With rare exceptions people are really interested

in one thing only: themselves.

Everybody, by necessity, is the center of his own universe.

When the human brain took its final shape, say,

100,000 years ago, problems and solutions must

have been exceedingly simple.

There were no long-range problems and man

had to grab any immediate advantage.

The world has changed but we are

still willing to sell more distant vital interests for

some minor immediate gains.

Our military industrial complex, which endangers

the future of mankind, to a great extent owes its

stability to the fact that so may people depend on it for their living.

This holds true for all of us, including myself.

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money

I have ever seen, I had to do something with it.

The easiest way to drop this hot potato was

to invest it, to buy shares.

I knew World War II was coming and I was afraid

that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war.

So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war.

This he did.

I lost my money and saved my soul. "

~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Source: Albert Szent-Gyrgyi,

The Crazy Ape, Grosset and Dunlap,

New York, 1971, p 72.

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Today we will unpack my studio.

Today I will again put brush to canvas.

Today my soul will once again

breath.

Today I will feel whole again,

with the smells of oil paints,

the sounds of my children in the background,

and the beauty of my new land

laying before my wondrous eyes.

I will open my soul,

and know the peace

of the great universal

maker in my heart.

Today I will be free.

Yours in Soul-full-ness,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com