Reflection

"Reflection" 

is my latest 20 minute painting on a 10 inch square stretched canvas.

I am at an impasse a little, need time to reflect, need time to think, rethink, decide, prioritize. This is 20 minutes where I tried to immerse myself into just painting, no voices around me, no distractions, no pushing and pulling, just the canvas, the paints and my brushes. The 20 minutes were over too fast, the buzzer scared me a little, made me jump when I had to stop, so this is it, this is what it will stay, I won't tinker anymore.  But I need to find a balance between the art I do to make a buck, to pay the bills, to keep my family going versus the art I want to make from deep within. I crave artistic growth and experiments, I don't seem to have much time for those right at this moment. The 20 minute challenges offer a way to play and let loose and grow a little for me, so they are precious at the moment. I also need to find time to get my physical self in better shape. Making art hardly gives your body a work-out, but time constraints prevent me from choosing time for those exercizes.

I might not blog as much as I used to before, but I am always still around. My Facebook Page will be the place where I will always post, so if you want to stay updated, come and like my page there.

I alsostarted putting my available art on Wordpress (HERE), just because they have a lay-out I really like and I cannot seem to find here at blogger.

So that's all for now folks :)

Thank you always for following and reading my stories

Special frame times two !

Somebody asked me if I would sell Madame Zborowska. Yes I would, the little problem -if you want to call it so- was that I had painted Daffne on the back of the cloth on another layer of plaster ;) So....I came up with this frame, a spin on a floating frame, but this one makes it possible to enjoy both sides or one side today and another tomorrow (or change with the seasons, Daffne looks more like Spring or Summer and Mme Zborowska more like Autumn/Winter ) So these ladies in their special frame are 34 cm square (= approx. 13.5 inch square) and the price is US 155.- + p&h. 
Great gift for Christmas !  I you like them, message me

Ladies to the Lighwave Gallery

New home for these ladies

I have brought these lovely ladies to their new residence yesterday. They got nailed to the walls and will be on display in a new gallery here in Tauranga. Grand opening is this Friday ! Very cool, hopefully I get to share some pictures from that event afterwards. Oh and let's keep our fingers crossed for some of them to be adopted too ;)

SourPuss - a cat with attitude

Made this little Sour Puss the other day when I felt a little like this. Great that in art you can paint away your feelings !

(and our cat has attitude, so this one got a fair share of that as well)

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 she is up for grabs in my li'l ♥ArTstore

Corpse Bride - revisited

A fellow artist Theresa from Faerie Moon Creations wrote a blogpost earlier this week about her favorite December-Movies and I have a bunch like that too. One we both seem to like is "Corpse Bride" by Tim Burton, I so looooove this ! I once did a Burtonesque painting inspired by this movie

  

Oh and I also did a set of ATCs in a homage to Mr. B.

Now it just so happened to happen that last night while I was painting on a commission (yes, I am commissioned ! deadline is Xmas !) there was a re-run (they are very good with those here..) of the Corpse Bride on TV and I didn't mind this at all, they can screen this again and again and I still love it, so today when I was trying to be quiet a bit to get rid of my headache, I painted another bride and sewed her on a paper doily and sewed that on a sturdy painted cardboard, I love her ♥ I got to try out how my new Aquabrush works at the same time. She is 22x21 cm and the back is the lovely blue/green paper on the topmost pic. I will put her up for sale, just because I know there are so many Burton fans about and it is just in time for Christmas

I will send her with a bunch of extra's for the festive season ♥

US$30

Around the World on Santa's Sleigh

Shipping Included

...~:♪♫♪:~...

Loving thoughts

I wanted to give this technique a try after I saw some of Gritty Jane's works, it intrigued me and I have to say it is a lot of fun, I called this painting "Loving Thoughts" because of the spot the heart ended up in.
16x16 inch ( 40x40 cm) wrapped canvas

I have put in-between-photos as well, so you can see how I started this play

:)

Rosalita mi corazón

Rosalita dressed up as Catrina

my Día de los Muertos painting this year. She has loads of texture and layers

   

Mixed Media on canvas

12x12 inch

30x30 cm

a Klimt-ish Kiwi

My latest Klimt inspired work, a smaller canvas with the iconic New Zealand native bird the Kiwi. A little different from my previous Klimt, but I always wanted to do birds as well and we have some really funny (interesting, decorative) ones here ;) He was a bit hard to photograph though, I think he looks better in real life 

 

Mixed Media on canvas 

  12 x 12 inch

30 x 30 cm

Art for Sale

I have now also added a way for you to purchase my art right here on my Blog I add Paypal buttons so that it's easy for you to use your credit cards and I have included all shipping, so the price you see is the total you pay
"Easy peasy" as the saying goes here downunder :)

First one up here today is 

"Smell the Flowers"

a 6x6 inch boxed canvas mixed media original 

gorgeous texture and dried flowers

♥