I worked on Eiffel Tower Exposed today…that one always sells at shows…want to have another one ready to go. The red in this painting depicts emotion…heating up…nearing explosion. I posted this one because it is hanging in my gallery…and seemed to fit my mood yesterday…not today….I am light and happy. Sucess becomes success…what for…artist becomes artist…what for…you need more and more…what for…thoughts become things…sitting here allowing this me to be here…no more drama she says to the ego…the celebration of space between thoughts…things are happening fast for me…can feel the universe testing…gratitude love and compassion to all…OK…so I am putting out there…a new experience with loving people…the ones who have my back…I love you…thank-you. (6×8 oil on canvas)
Archive for July, 2008
Red Tower
31Jul08How Has It Come To This
29Jul08This is an oldie…made some minor touchups to the entire series…now ready to be framed and hung. I am going to put out to the universe…I wish for a framer to frame my works of art. I really do not want to spend the time framing…that is an entire art form all to […]
Raining in Paris
28Jul08
Time to reflect over the weekend…had a delightful time at the Stowe Arts Festival…despite some hangups…did not stop me from managing to get an exhibit up to sell 8 paintings of which more than makes it a profitable show. Highlights of the show…met artist Malamik…another blog friend materializing in the physical sense. She was sweet…and as beautiful as I imagined from her art…words…and kindness. On my last day…one of my glass frames cracked driving over Top Notch…I set it next to a garbage can to find a man to help me take care of it…well in the short time…a woman managed to step on it…how I don’t know…needless to say…she had to go to the ER and have 14 stitches…I felt horrible…apologized profusely…later on I found out her husband was one of the artist vendors…he lost all sales for that day…as he had to spend most of the day at the ER with his injured wife. I felt even more lousy…I went from artist to artist telling the story…and with help of another kind soul…we managed to collect over $600-$700 from the artists selling at the Stowe Art Fest. The man was teary eyed when we gave it to him.
Today…I decided to go back to oils…I need to repaint Eiffel Tower Exposed…as usual it sold…and many black and white nudes…people really like the feel of oils on canvas…I also had an inspirational idea to create my booth into a Parisian boudoir…all in all soaked up the really good energy. Alas much thanks to Jim, my mom, and Phil for helping this weekend! (8×10 oil on canvas)
Haunting The Heart
23Jul08This would be a good title for a painting…should of probably done one today…instead spent the day raising my vibrational energy to jumpstart my weekend in Stowe. I will not be painting for the rest of the week…tomorrow I will be setting up my exhibit at the Stowe Art Festival. I am in a strange place…not freaking out…sort of a calm complacency…letting things come to me…feeling like a magnet of good energy…who would of thought I would ever emit this powerful light…I like it…namaste.
Nymph for Pan
22Jul08
Well this painting is taking on a mythical look and feel…me thinks to turn this series into “the god was a lover of nymphs.” I really really like it…so much…it got placed on an easel on my front porch spreading the good energy out to the world. I am all about manifesting these days…laughing with a friend as we argue over who has manifested the perfect evening…of course we both did…just funny to actually be discussing the perfect randomness of it all. I was reading my latest self help book by the river yesterday afternoon…the last sentence said something like go and do something right now to improve your spiritual growth…my inner conversation went sort of like this…really…i have to physically do something…right now…like right now…all I could come up with was to take a walk on the side of my house to smell the flowers in my side bed…I did that…then ran into a friend…just so happened to be walking by…we had a delightful conversation re: how dreamy Obama was…enlightenment talk…then made dinner plans for later that evening. We manifested each other! Now I am off to manifest a tennis game. (18×24 oil on linen)
The Offering
21Jul08
There is a rainbow out there…the sun broke through this afternoon rain…went outside in search of it…have seen my share of rainbows this year….pure beauty…last night wrote my one woman monologue…what it is like to be a 30 something divorced woman…with two kids…dating in Montgomery Center, Vermont…much to poke jokes at in this limited yet abundant place….oxymoron…you only understand if you live here…in the bath…where I do my strongest power-writing…snickering…I reread my work…the drops of sudsy smudged ink make it difficult to restring the thoughts back together…my personal gibberish writing has taken on a new tone…for the first time feel confident…like I am really writing from my voice…imagining my French arms flailing retlling my outlandish story…embellished with the usual Christine flair…the kind my inner circle rubs their bellies…laughing so hard it hurts…some funny stuff. I am reposting this…I added a subtle metallic gold…originally was going to make two paintings out of this…something tells me the juxtaposition adds to it…the offering…my gut says to frame it as one. Thank-you Universe for not abiding to my calls earlier in life…for the importance of the shift first…entering the collective vortex…thank - you for allowing me this shift in consciousness….I can’t tell you how freaking psyched I am. (22×26 watercolor, ink, and oil on paper)
Young Love
18Jul08
Be careful what you wish for…for you just might get it. I have been in deep meditation…stopping my thoughts to nothingness…I have been working on this for a solid month…give or take…things do seem to manifest faster for me…truly am aware of the space between my thoughts…catch myself falling into a daydream much quicker…before a painting…there must be a feeling…a certain emotion…spirit aligns with the energy…which brings forth the reality..ready to take form…as a painting…I don’t want to think about my path…what is my future…it does not matter…it is here and now…to identify with anything further would be ludicrous.. (5×7 watercolor greeting card)
My Fairytale
17Jul08
Here it goes ladies in their underwear…my deliciously dreamy personality. Off to the beach with friend and jeep full of kids. Feeling good…accomplished my goal today to create another painting for the Stowe exhibit…this is my last large piece of drawing paper…I am embracing the ink…watercolor combo. Currently reading “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Kundera. One of my favorite movies…so far the book is better.
My Zen Garden
16Jul08
I am in love with my garden trellis…a friend helped me design and create it out of birch trees and vine…my ex originally made the birch tree trellis…it fell down this year due to heavy rains…and tickled with the zen like feel of this new design…spending time in and near my garden space…rich in joy. I should be preparing more work for the Stowe Art Festival…even if it was tomorrow…confident I have many of paintings to sell. (6×6 watercolor and pencil)
We Are Just Moments
15Jul08
I did this sketch a while back…today did it again…on a much larger scale…keeping in line with my most recent work on drawing paper. I am feeling much more confident making it as an artist. I should clarify…making it financially as an artist…every now and then things creep up…or a doubting Thomas will throw me off…it is getting much easier to snap out of those moments of self sabotage. I am gearing up for the Stowe Arts Festival at the end of the month…feeling secure Stowe will love my work. Nevertheless…I gave up using security as an excuse to block my creative dreams. (22×28 pencil on drawing paper)
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