Post #44

images made

            taken

the past

nineteenhundrednientyfour

the present

twothousandandtwelve

 

becoming

    my art

    questionmark

 

connecting

    linking

        finding

a belonging

    of my 

creation

my self

Become-my-art

Post #42

Completion

most of the works

        gone

left

            out in the world

travelers, seekers

            finders of their permanent 

home.

 

The viewer, the purchaser

            the final piece

of completion in the 

                process 

                        of creating

 

Their thoughts 

                    added

to my feelings 

            mixed

changing my intent

                enhancing it

                distorting it

        understanding?

 

Their thoughts 

            are what matters

        more?

 

Their thoughts

            their reaction

will make my seekers

                    be loved, accepted, wanted, acquired

 

To enable me to keep 

my living

                        my creating 

            in the flow.

When the end is here

            for me

                    some day

guaranteed

                    my pieces will continue

        to be

                    alive. here. bringing joy. existing. loved.

 

24x24-textures-of-our-memories
24" x 24" Textures of our Memories

30x30-cultivated-strenght
30" x 30" Cultivated Strenght

Red-8x8-Thursday-is-washday

8" x 8" Thursday is Washday

 

On my iPod:

Fall of Giants (I did not like this the way I liked Pillars of the Earth),

The Dark River

The Golden City 

Post #39

Here we are

    not quite whole

but healing

        finding deeper inspiration

and sillyness

                    always

                                    never stop

sillyness

Hand-cast-dots

Can't get the cast wet, can't wear gloves to not make it sweat, need to keep it on for at least another 2 weeks.

It happened when I was spring cleaning the studio. A heavy table top, too heavy for me to lift, fell onto the finger. I heard the most awful sound of the bone being fractured. 

Finding some other ways to be creative. Yesterday:

Chippy-1-on-cast

Today: going to the ROM. Sketching. Wandering on my schedule, not Huxley's.

Tomorrow: Back to the studio, working on details:

Painting-detail-1

Painting-detail-2

Listening to: Sins of our Fathers, Stones into Schools, Angels and Demons (2nd Time around and still fun), Swiss-German-Austrian-drinking songs… (but no Bier to go with it).

Post #38

Inspiration

    away from the walls

        of my secure cave of the 

studio

cold, ice, colour 

    elusive

yet vast, deep

            textures

feeling it.

 

It might lead

                to newness 

embraced in my heart

            captured in paint

                    one day?

        soon…..

 

Cherry-beach-1

Cherry-beach-2

Cherry-beach-10 

Cherry-beach-9

Cherry-beach-11 

On they i-pod: Eat, Pray, Love; Under the Dome; The Book of Night Women

2011

May the new year bring resolution to issues from 2010, good health and a steady flow of time to execute ideas. May it also bring peace and contentment with what we have, insight into how each and every one of us can help humanity and each other. 

May the year also be full of laughter, sunshine and rain, wind and storms, shelter and nourishment for all!

A big Hug!

 

Monika

 

Post #37

At the end of the day 

    after

full production

sunset

    excitement set up

for the next day

to come

            and see

the labour of the past day

    sometimes very happy

sometimes not impressed

                        yet

                                    always

it meant time spent

creation

 

        the end of the day

too tired

                        to wash all the brushes

            used up

 

                                                                me too

 

Brushes

 

Written in permanent marker on the wall in the studio:

 

"Tears and doubt are part of the process in creating my art work."

 

On the I-pod: Song for Arboune, A Prayer for Owen Meaney, The Eight.

Post #36

Working

    Creating

        so much

New palett colours slipping out    

    of my hands

        my head

            my mind

                        my soul

Not yet ready

            to be show to

    you and

                        the world.

keeping it close to 

    me and only showing to a selected few

But here for you…

        beginnings

                again that now

    are now not total beginnings any more

    but becoming

            works

                        of my soul

art

    Studio-snap-abstract-detail

Studio-snap-abstract-detail2

Studio-snap-abstract

 

Experimenting to grow

    to learn

            to make richer

layers of life

            surfaces to go above

        and below

Studio-snap-acrylic-sheet

 

Reading and 

    sketching

            deepening

                            the connection of 

everything

Studio-snap-sketch

 

These past weeks listening to: Einstein: His Life and Universe and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Post #34

A hand gets dirty with paint

a panel starts to become

creation 

    through transformation

Paint-hand
 

a new phase 

    is about to begin

my baby – not so little

    a new phase for him

school not

kindergarten no longer.

me, myself and I 

able

    to work

to create

to be messy

time!

Post #27

Walk-in-my-shoes
 

Walk a year in my shoes…

you will create paintings

you will cry tears about missed times 

    where you will not create

    because you do NOT hold the time in your hands

    you do not have the time

    your hands do not work when you have

    the 

time

    they are painful

    so no matter you feel 

creative

    you can not hold a brush in

those precious, rough, sandpaper like 

hands

Walk a year in my shoes…

you will hold your family dear

    cry with love for them

you will get paints on your hands

    and can't get it off before you leave

so people will think it is blood

    the blood of creation

Walk a year in my shoes 

you will just have spent a year 

grateful

disappointed

challenged

you will have gotten married

learned to sew french seams

    in cream silk

felt low about the little time your day has

    for you to spend at the studio

yet you will also have come to realize

that 

important is

    that the fast fleeting years you have with 

    your son so young 

    will be gone

    too soon

so now is the time to worry less

    steal time when you can 

    and treasure and be 

grateful

because, oh, so handsome he is

Austronaut-explorer
 

Entry #4

Details have been added to some of the boats. This is the stage where things slow down. A lot. Each piece of work is studied, reflected upon, pondered about. 

11x14-boat
11" x 14" Boat. Needs signature and resin coating. Title.

24x24-boat
24" x 24" piece. I added the dots just before leaving the studio. It will receive more attention tomorrow when I'm back at the studio. There are faint "pirate map" paths on the background. An element I like immensely.

Below, a sample of how the piece looks before painting the details.

24x24inprogress-boat-a
24" x 24" boat piece. 
24x24inprogress-boat
Added swimmers and under-painting of plants. 

Tomorrow I will finish this piece if it is ready for finishing. I let each tell me when it feels that it is finished.