an angel...
intuitive...
1st part of quote i chose for this piece...
2nd half of quote
a small framed abstract
titled "under our old cities"
larger abstract...this is a center close up...
Title; "that day at the barn"
Title; "that day at the barn"
a right side close-up,
i forgot to take this pic in it's entirety!
this will be a first time the public will see this piece,
that i have shown you recently ;)
up close quote...
and another...
At the last Auburn Art Walk, 2 months ago, the art tribe forgot to put my name and work on the map and where i would be...and we were made a make-shift sign etc...
so Placer Arts honored me and the store owner with another show, whoo hoo!
Shawna, the store owner hung all new work for me.
we are going to have wine and snacks and have another great evening of fun and friends. i used to hate these shows because i am kind of shy, but now my family and friends continue to surprise me and show up...so it's FUN!
oh how i wish some of my online buddies could be there too! such wondrous souls you are!
This Thursday night from 6-9, just in case you are in northern California ;)
HAPPY SUMMER DAZE/DAYS MY FRIENDS!
Wanda......I so wish we could TALK. My rushed morning doesn't give me enough time to discuss the FABULOUS beauty I see here, what I feel here.
ReplyDeleteAs I opened up your page, I thought to myself, "There is something about Wanda's work that I simply love, but cannot achieve."
What I see is a total freedom with the brush that I guess I've never tried. I liken the experience to be like being in a dance class and just letting go with the music....am I correct?
That quote, "If something turns your soul....it is your duty to be reduced to ashes by it" is exactly what needs to happen. I am learning SO MUCH from my poetry group. This is what happens to any artist, but I'm finding it out in poetry. There comes a time when technical devices meet up with the soul of the unborn poem, and the poet has to dance until the poem is born. Then do you take the grammar and syntax, diction and all the other devices to massage the poem. But it all starts out with one dancing the being reduced, as the art piece becomes bigger than you. Oh the joy of this discovery, and YOUR ART shows me this. THANK YOU!
I wish this too, so very much...to really TALK, Anita. I could write a novel over your response and reasoning Anita, I swear.
Deletethere is so much to all of what you said, that I can only TOUCH on it.
but first off; most importantly is that you recognize freedom and feel and are astute enough to recognize what my paintings are about. I could just scream and cry and celebrate with you, that YOU SEE IT, that you GET IT, YOU DO!
I would have to go back to my annals of time in my blog to see where I started. but have to share some tid bits with you.
YES, you can paint and capture what you want...it CAN take a lifetime, but probably wouldn't for you. passion drives us to achievements, ergo, so DOABLE!
and the beauty of art is that we continue to learn till our dying day, with/when that passion remains forever. we may achieve and/or revel in many delights along the way. and it feels better (and I tend to go further and further out on the limb with more ease) when some things come with more ease and less struggle...BUT...it's a continuance ALWAYS, and I love love love that factor.
esp. at this time in my older life.
I started out taking some on-line classes, searching for techniques to begin, finding a gold mine out there in cyber space for learning. and again I will repeat over and over that I fell in love first with misty mawn's emotions her paintings portrayed. and I have taken 3 of her on-line classes...worth every cent and more. she is not only a marvelous teacher, she comes from her soul, heart and guts, which I was after and am now LOVING MORE than anyone can know (although you might just be the one who does)
I treasure EVERY SINGLE thing you bring to the table in descriptions and feeling surrounding your own discoveries and what you share with all of us. I have been asked to teach more and more as time goes on, and I know I will at some point. it takes great energy and time to put our ALL into these things. and I am so thrilled to be able to share, and bring the essence in passion to painting and mixed media. certainly there is fun and frivolity and much more to all of it, but there is a definite spiritual side that feeds our soul, and I KNOW YOU KNOW about this.
parallel to these thoughts, a newer, marvelous friend I have, asked me one night as she stared and was reading one of my paintings; "do you ever step back and think/say, did I really do this?" I felt like screaming to the rooftop, YES YES YES. but answered her yes, and told her sometimes I have even cried and cried after finishing a piece...wondering, where did all of this come from, and how etcetera...
I am eternally grateful to some mighty fine teachers that truly have shared from their guts, not just the money thing or fame thing.
I bet you GET every bit of this...
one important thing that I think of so often is that PRACTICE is what has given me freedom to PLAY PLAY PLAY with paint and it spills over onto to every thing in my life! BLESSED and GRATEFUL I ALWAYS am.
Flora Bowley, taught me more about color, (and it came so naturally after her class,) and about bravery, happy painting, dancing painting and MORE.
mISTY mAWN has taught me so much that I would need a lifetime to tell you all of what I continue to see and learn from her.
Stephanie Lee taught me to dive, dig in, explore and DO DO!
Land of Lost Luggage, Julie Prichard, taught me so much of technique in the beginnings. and her humor made it sooo much fun. I still hear her voice while painting at times, without knowing at first, oh yeah, Julie showed us this.
Alisa Burke is a constant "spark of ingenuity" for me.
there are more, but this is a start. and when you are ready, you will find a wealth everywhere, all over the internet.
I TREASURE you my friend, more than you can know...oh wait...I certainly hope and think you do! xoxo
P.S. is this quote on ashes yours? Who is the writer?
ReplyDeleteI would so be there if I could. I love Northern CA. It's gorgeous there. I wish you the best of luck with the show and I hope you sell every piece. The last one is my favorite. There are so many surprises tucked into the paint in your work Wanda. It's really wonderful. Have fun! xoxo
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ReplyDeleteThere is a wealth of feedback here, and I agree with everything you are saying here. The lesson is a life-long one, and that, I am learning, is what is keeping me "young." The joy I experience just in the appreciation I have for the arts and the ability to "read" art (as you say - and I love that). There is so much to say here in response to your response, but PRACTICE and daily practice is the key whether it's music (I know that element) dance, writing, painting, photography, language....my job requires that I speak French daily, and that keeps me in the loop of the language. My interest in writing keeps me reading and writing daily, and my desire to improve my own photography has taught me that out of maybe 25-30 shots, one photo will come out right. I often feel discouraged that I'll never achieve a certain level, but when I hit that wall, the lesson on the other side of the darkness is that both poetry writing and photography (I'm speaking for myself) requires many hit and misses, learning devices, tools and how to use them, and most of all, PRACTICE until something comes out right. I also think of it as, "What else would I be doing with my time? I'm not just going to sit around and die!" Hence, the countless ideas being tried and failed, some working out, but the next day, you get up again and do more. Oh Wanda, your enthusiasm and joy (the key element in it all) is a GIFT to me!
WOW, we could go on and on...thank you for this copious and perfect response to help me along the way as I explore my goals and the tools to get me there! MANY HUGS! Anita
Good morning, Wanda! Thank you for coming back...and for YOUR way with words that remind me that all of us go through the creative process like going through a processing machine of sorts. We all have to submit our "talents" to the process of hard work and hit and miss and all the other practices that allow the muse to take over. Oh how I love this...thank you dear Wanda! And thanks for letting me know about the quote!
ReplyDeleteThe quotes and themes you use for your abstracts are such fun and absolutely look great peeking from beneath. I'm sort of like you in that I don't necessarily like opening nights at art shows. Very exciting but makes me nervous. Glad you are now having fun at it~ PS: The ashes quote resonates with me!
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