New Art- 3 new works!

'Drowning Pool'

24" x 36" x 2"

oils on thick gallery wrapped canvas

Ready to hang, needs no frame

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 gallery.

I am continuing to push forward on the abstract works. This is the largest one so far. Lots of texture and color, I wish I had gotten a better picture of it. These colors are a little bit difficult to show online, with perfection. These were the best pictures in the 2 dozen or so that I took. My neighbors probably think I am crazy, because I was hauling this painting all over the front and back yards trying to get the best light. Sheesh! LOL They are used to my crazy artist antics by now, I’m sure…but I was wearing my PJ’s, paint covered smock and fuzzy slippers while doing this, so now they know for sure that I am nuts and have no shame at all. Oh well, it works for me.

'Unification'

16" x 20"

oils on flat canvas panel

Will need framing or stretching to hang

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 gallery.

'Thick and Thin'

20" x 16"

Oils on flat canvas panel

Will need framing or stretching to hang

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 gallery.

I’ve been busy pushing myself in the studio. These are two of the three that I stared this weekend, the third is still on the easel, I’ll share it soon. I’m switching to Un-stretched canvas for the time being, just for storage concerns. With the slow down in sales and shows over the last two years, I’ve got a storage problem in the studio. For the time being, I can paint all I want and store them easier in flat files. I can stretch them or frame them at a later date if I need/want to. The bonus to my patrons is that I can sell for less, and the shipping will be super cheap to any where! Woot! FYI: BAD! Kitty Studio always offers free shipping on every work to any where in the world. Who loves ya? ;)
Anyway…I’ve just been playing around, letting go, having fun. It’s been liberating and fun I hope that shows in the works.
Let me know what you think about the new works,

I just love hearing from you all.
Love to all,
Heather
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Daily Art- New Work- Enhanced Vision

Full Painting

detail

detail

detail

“Enhanced Vision’

24″ x 18″

oils

back stapled/finished sides

ready to hang

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Here is the quote for this work:

“Clearly, the shift to a higher form of consciousness could not happen passively. The transformation of consciousness requires not only personal work, but direct and surgically precise engagement with ecological, political, psychological, commercial, technological, and spiritual aspects of reality — as Nietzsche noted, the deed creates the doer, “as an afterthought.” It is inconceivable that a movement to a state of higher consciousness could take place in a subconscious murk. Such a shift could take place in only one way: in the full light of consciousness. To accomplish this would require the complete engagement of our will and our higher cognitive faculties. We would have to decondition ourselves from negative programming, overcoming distractions and self-justifications and egocentric goals — to “abandon abandonment” and “escape escapism,” as I was once told in a dream — in order to act for the greater good. At the moment, it is unclear how much sacrifice will be necessary. As futurist thinker Barbara Marx Hubbard writes in her book, Conscious Evolution:

If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can repattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, or social collapse….If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.

If our current civilization were to disintegrate — a possibility that should not seem outlandish, considering the New Orleans flood, peak oil theories, and numerous ecological factors — we might face an apocalyptic passage, forcing us to evolve at high speed. Breakdown and breakthrough may happen simultaneously.”

Daniel Pinchbeck

Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Page: 244

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When I am working, this is the kind of thing I see inside my head. Sometimes one of the possibilities steps forward, and I am granted a clear view of the subject and I will paint that out. Sometimes I just see the cloud of possibilities and I paint out that feeling, what ever it may be. When I started this work, I was talking on the phone, doing my job, and I started doodling on a canvas that was nearby. I rarely draw anything out first, a simple sketch is all that is needed most times, and in fact I don’t practice my drawing skills near enough. To make it easier to practice I have taken to doodling on canvas instead of paper first. When I do feel like drawing, it’s an in the moment thing, I can rarely re-produce those drawings with the same intensity or clarity.

Back to this work; I was kicked back at my desk, talking and drawing. When I am working with a client…I use the same interior image as I do when I am setting up a session in studio. I didn’t realize that until I finished this work.

Isn’t that funny? To be using the same interior landscape for two different types of work? Well, maybe it’s just funny that I can go through my life feeling like I am super aware of everything, every emotion and situation with an in the moment attitude, and yet just now find out that this is my blank slate imagery? Eh, who knew?

The colors change as I work with clients, the colors tell me where each person needs light shed, or knots untangled. When I need information from the universe for these people, and for my art work, the images will step out, and revel its truths. Sometimes when I am working for clients, these images turn into the person they are wanting to connect with, in this reality or other levels of energy. I can engage in information sharing with these energies, translating, if you will for the client. When I am working on a painting/creation it happens much the same way, except they rarely turn into people, more often they are symbolic messages from my subconscious back brain. When I can let myself go, and just float inside my head, I watch the changing colors and soft edged images that come up. When I started doodling, my hand drew without my brain engaged or judging and I ended up with my internal magic lava lamp on the canvas.

I thought that was cool beans, so I painted it in the colors of that day. The highest realms of information are deep blues and rich turquoise. Below that, the next layers are done in velvet purples, fading into musty greens. The lowest layers are done in creamy white, high blues and the dusty greens. The background is not white, but a soft off-white with buttery yellow hues.

Happy Friday, have a great weekend.

Heather

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Daily Art- New Work-Dreaming Summer

Full painting

Close up

Close up

Close up

“Dreaming Summer” from the Choir Series #10

18″ x 24″

Original Oil Painting

Finished Sides, ready to hang

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Here is the quote that helped the work along:

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

~Amos Ferguson

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This work took some time to tell me when she was ready to be finished. Small details is all she asked for and that’s what I gave her. The textures in the background and the green foreground are subtle, but vital to the energy of the work. Her wings are stilling themselves from her flight so are slightly blurred. Her gown brings the fiery reds and deep oranges of the “anything is possible” of an Indian Summer. She smells of fresh cut grass, sunshine on the lavender fields and the earthy dust of opportunity.

She reminds me that this is not the time to trap myself within virtue. I do not need to be caught on the treadmill of doing what is “right”, I must release my expectations of what I am learning, and allow the growth to happen. Transition isn’t supposed to feel good, or none of us would ever make it through it at all. I am what I am, I am doing what I need to be doing, and the Universe will provide the necessary synchronicities to happen as I continue my act of spiritual faith in myself and the greater power of the Original Creator, faith that I can channel that creative energy, faith that I can use it for good in my life and in every life I may touch, or know; faith in the love for every living thing. I accept what I am asking for, I will work hard, remain true to myself and look no gift horse in the mouth.

So be it.

May your day be filed with turquoise possibilities and golden opportunities.

Heather

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