K, L, M & N Florals

More florals for the A to Z project..... making good progress between other subject matters.

All of these you see here are available for sale. Please see http://artistchristina.etsy.com if you are interested in browsing these or other of my paintings. Thank you!
 
Karin's Spirit of Kindness.

Matisse's Garden.
 

Leonardo's Natural World.

 

A Natural Life.

 Thank you for looking.... There are also many other new paintings available besides florals. Take a look at http://artistchristina.etsy.com

 I hope you have a great day!

It's Friday!

As you may or may not know, =), I've been working on a new A to Z project creating florals.

Between other subject matter paintings, I have actually made some progress on this, and have recently finished work up to the letter J, with "Jim Got Lucky". 

Here's a look at them from C to J. 

If you are interested in a purchase, please feel free to email me at superkittysuperdoggy@yahoo.com and make me an offer, or see my shop at http://artistchristina.etsy.com.

Have a wonderul weekend and thank you so, for stopping by! 

David's Commitment. SOLD.

 Eve's New Room.

Daisies for Frida (not a good photo, very pretty in person!).

Gramma's Garden.

 After Hil's Honeymoon.

Indigo and Her Interesting Life.

 Jim Got Lucky.

New Day, New Life

Here we are, early September, and the autumn is closing in on the summertime. 

It was a summer of exploration for us after a big move to a rural coastal community in Massachusetts. 

Not too much painting this summer, a lot of home improvement projects and trying to live within a smaller space. Organization skills put to the test.. it's a learning process, like everything!

I have found i am not just an artist and mother, but a plumber, electrician, carpenter, inventor, painter and handyman. With my efforts placed therein, there was just no time or energy to produce art. 

When i did finally pick up my brushes again, recently, and pull out my canvases, i was drawn into a new style of painting... a freer style that enabled me to focus all the knowledge i have gained in the past about light and shadow, how to display movement and vitality, how to work with color. It has become more important to me right now to let go of the details and trust my instincts to create emotive pieces, rather than have my sometimes too factual brain rule my strokes and the outcome. And so I've begun the flower project. I will paint 26 small florals, one each named after some lovely person i know, real or just imagined, and they will be my works of abandon ... free of detail, full of emotion. Here are the first three projects, I hope you like them.

Diptych: Alice's Bouquets

 Bella and Her Purple Irises

Carly's Wildflowers

Thanks so much for visiting my blog and browsing my post.

Have a wonderful day. Give to others. Be good to yourself and your earth.

-Christina Glaser

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A Diptych

Two paintings with a similar subject matter can be very powerful. Beyond encompassing a larger area where they are hung, they create a certain feeling, more poignant than a single painting.

With these two paintings, I wanted to set the viewer somewhere foreign, not so exotic, but in a small courtyard of a modest house of stone and stucco, and where the sun is hot and the days are relentlessly bright. The land is arid, yet there is beauty to behold. There is life there, as life encompasses this earth almost everywhere.

Detail:



A Floral with Attitude

I love youtube for all its vids on painting.... speed painting, lessons, art show reviews. It's so full of information and inspiration. Last weekend I saw a video on drip painting. I would reference it, but for the life of me, i cant find it anymore. But anyway, it inspired me to give drip painting a try. 

Of course the artist made it look soooo easy. And her painting was sooooo good. But I struggled with it. The paint was gloppy, i learned to dilute it more efficiently. It went where i didnt want it to go. I swirled it, moved it, sopped it up. Let it dry outside for a solid 2 days. Didnt like it. Painted a dark background, added some detail. Didnt like it. 

I had to let it sit and think about it for a couple of days. Looked at it a lot. Thought about it. What was missing? I let it settle in my mind. I decided it needed some texture, so i broke out the glossy gel and applied it to the background. 

It looked alive to me then. It looked funky, and somewhat deviant. A deviant floral. Hmm! This floral has an attitude! I finally decided i didnt hate it so much anymore. 

Here is the finished painting and 2 pictures of the process. Experimentation, part and parcel of the freedom that defines art. Hope you like it!

The finished painting:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/98769110/a-floral-with-attitude-original-painting 

 

Paint applied, set out to dry:

 

Background painted in:

The Young Artists

Yesterday i went to my town's school art show. It featured art from every grade - from kindergarten thru high school. What i found most exhilirating was the sheer, unadulterated creativity and imagination of these young artists. There were no standard fruit or floral still lifes. There were no common puffy-cloud landscapes.

No, it was a variety of monsters, pop culture icons, odd-looking people doing weird things, and perfectly personal abstracts. It was great! Refreshing, powerful and interesting all at the same time. These kids have vision, their own unique imaginative scenarios, and they create them. They were not concerned with marketing, or with consumer-driven topics. They see the world their way. They are free! Free to create, unabashedly.

It made me realize that young artists have so much to contribute. Keep doing what you are doing, with all your emotion and heart. You may teach us older artists a thing or two.

Painting Giveaway!

SPRING! The season of renewal ... The warmth of the sun is a gentle touch to the skin.... The flora are in bud.

And you can have this original 6x4 painting for FREE! Go to https://www.facebook.com/artistchristina and simply share it on your own page and you will be entered to win it!

Random drawing is May 1st and your painting will be posted that week. (Sorry, can only mail to within the U.S.).

I hope you have fun with this, and good luck everyone!

Florals for Women

Over the past couple of months, I've become more and more alarmed at the recent trend by some conservative legislators at the state level to chip away at the rights of women. Rights regarding personal choice and privacy, and those rights which were so hard fought and so long to arrive.

Now, just years later, they are introducing new legislation which attempt to coerce and guilt women into behaving in a manner they deem "moral", but which are, in fact, a thinly-veiled disguise to impose a radicalized, right-wing christian agenda. Does this country have freedom of religion, or not? Morals stands separately from religion.

The proposed limits on birth control funding and forced undue medical procedure pre-abortion are both issues that, no matter what your religious belief, attack the basic human rights of women that have already been established by law.

Please help me to support women's causes via the National Organization for Women, to which 100% of profit will go for each sale in the Florals 4 Women's Rights initiative.

 

All Florals to Benefit Women's Rights available at Florals 4 Womens Rights.  Here are a just few of them...

welcome!