I haven't kept up with my blog lately. I have been totally obsessed with Etsy and getting my shop set up. Then came the holidays and it was trying to balance shopping and decorating and everything else. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever find the balance to everything. I need to paint, market my paintings and a family life, clean house and work?? Am I just crazy to hope that I will figure it all out ?? I love painting and feel at odds when I can't create. I hope to fulfill my dreams and be a full time painter and artist making a living doing what I love most.
December 27, 2009
New Day Dreams
I haven't kept up with my blog lately. I have been totally obsessed with Etsy and getting my shop set up. Then came the holidays and it was trying to balance shopping and decorating and everything else. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever find the balance to everything. I need to paint, market my paintings and a family life, clean house and work?? Am I just crazy to hope that I will figure it all out ?? I love painting and feel at odds when I can't create. I hope to fulfill my dreams and be a full time painter and artist making a living doing what I love most.
November 30, 2009
Etsy Pounce treasury
I was so excited because I made it into a pounce treasury yesterday! I am trying to figure out how to add that as a link. It is really late and I have to get ready for work tomorrow so it will have to wait until tomorrow. Please check out my new store!
XOXO
Michelle
November 29, 2009
Crimson Fire Studios
October 14, 2009
Wishcasting Wednesday
Wishcasting Wednesday I just came upon this link today http://jamieridlerstudios.ca/wishcasting Todays wish " What do wish to let go of ?"
I wish to let go of negative thinking about myself and about others. It is so easy to get caught up in allowing myself to feel negative instead of positive.
I also wish to let go of feeling sorry for myself when things don't go exactly the way I expect them to.
I wish to let go of fear and the negative critic that holds me back from believeing in my own creativity and dreams!
September 10, 2009
Leaves of Autumn
Autumn
| The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no." And tonight the heavy earth is falling away from all other stars in the loneliness. We're all falling. This hand here is falling. And look at the other one. It's in them all. And yet there is Someone, whose hands infinitely calm, holding up all this falling. Rainer Maria Rilke |
August 12, 2009
Torn paintings
I just finish this painting yesterday. I had been deliberating if it was finshed. Unfortunately today someone in my family left the door open to the room I was painting in. The cat jumped on the easel knocking my painting down putting a hole in the canvas! I am pretty upset about that right now. I know that the cat didn't know any better. There for I have to forgive her. It is just so difficult to make people understand how much time and yourself you put into a painting. It took several months to paint the layers of different paint. Ocean Peace was painted with acrylics first and then with oils on a linen canvas. Does anyone know how to fix a hole in a canvas? This is the second painting in 2 months that has been ruined. The other painting was a portrait of my daughter. That was on the fire place mantal leaning, my daughter and her husband took it down to show some people on there wedding night. They placed it on the mantal wrong down it fell hitting the corner of the brick putting a hole in it. I will fix it the best I can and give it to her. I have to say I would never have imagined this happening once let alone twice... sigh. Did anyone else have something this horrible happen?? How did you feel about it? I feel like crying and I don't want to become so upset that I can't paint. There are so many worse things that could happen in my life. Well I am going to go outside now and look for the metor showers maybe falling stars instead of paintings would make me feel better unless they fall on me haha.....
July 3, 2009
Evening In the city Painting
Evening
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;
and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
a star each night, and rises;
and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.
June 26, 2009
Water Lily
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May 15, 2009
Megan Chapman's Paintings at Wear Art Thou
Megan Chapman is one of my favorite abstract artists. I love her use of color and emotion in her paintings. I first discovered Megan and her art on myspace. I later followed her blog, which was informative to artists and allowed a glimpse into Megan's journey as an artist. I recently visited the lovely shop Wear Art Thou http://wearartthouaustin.com/in Austin, Texas. If you are in Austin you should definitely visit their shop and check out Megan's beautiful paintings. Andrea the shop owner is really wonderful.I look forward to seeing more of Megan's work. You can find and purchase more of her work at these links.
This is Megan's Etsy site.
May 4, 2009
Creative Path
Where does the path of creativity take you? I have always loved art and have explored many different forms of creativity along the way. It drives my husband crazy because he believes in focusing on one particular thing at a time. I love painting , stained glass and photography. I am fascinated with color shape and light. The following photos are of the beautiful Mayfield Park and Preserve in Austin Texas. My plan for my future is to take the path that will lead me to being the full time working artist that I have always wanted to be.
April 29, 2009
Water Dreams
A friend of mine Holly Allen sent me some beautiful maple leaves all the way from Iowa.This is a mixed media piece acrylic and oils on 140lb water color paper. Here is a close up of one of the leaves. This piece has a luminescent shine to it that was hard to capture in photos. I will try to take another picture that shows the one inch borders.
April 26, 2009
April Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month
This is a poem from one of my favorite poets Rainer Maria Rilke.
I will be adding some more of my art work and updating my blog today.
I hope that you enjoy this poem. Please share some of your favorites with me.
Falling Stars
Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes--do you recall? And we
did make so many! For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
Rainer Maria Rilke
This is a poem from one of my favorite poets Rainer Maria Rilke.
I will be adding some more of my art work and updating my blog today.
I hope that you enjoy this poem. Please share some of your favorites with me.
Falling Stars
Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes--do you recall? And we
did make so many! For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
Rainer Maria Rilke
March 14, 2009
Falling Leaves
This is my first post on a blog. I have been following other peoples art blogs for a while now. I decided it was time to start a blog of my own. This painting is an abstract that I did this fall on arches 140lb cold press watercolor paper,with acrylics and oil.
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