This is the second lava painting in the energy series.
There is a layer of paper on the gallery wrapped canvas that lends wrinkles and folds to the painting. It almost looks like a leather surface.
I'm very happy with the way these have come out.
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Did you ever want a button that would get you out of whatever was happening? A fix me button? A help me button? A get me out of here button?
Me too.
I painted one the other day.
It sort of looks like a minimal modern art thing... but its actually a button. A panic button.
his is a brand new painting ... and a brand new style for me.
Honestly I'm not sure about it and I'm just playing around with paint. I was trying to use black and white and red and get the feeling of movement with very little actual movement clues....
I haven't been feeling all that well. I guess in some ways I feel like I'm falling.
Most of my art has so much happening. So much going on... lots of colors and textures. It takes so much time and effort and paint.... I paint standing up at the kitchen counter and hold up the paintings while I do them..... But yesterday I had nothing. No energy. No color... maybe just red.
I don't know. For whatever reason this suited yesterday.
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. " Mark Twain
I could never match the beauty of these words with an image.... I'll settle for the sky the color of violets.
Namaste,
Tracy
've been trying to concentrate on energy as a theme.
FOCUS.
I understand that at first glance this painting doesn't look especially energetic in the traditional sense (Like, for example, the Lava paintings) however let me explain.
Focus is energy. The ability to hone in on something, to narrow down... to remain on a task... to really look inside and decide what you want... That all not only takes energy; it is energy. Focus is a powerful magnetic-type energy that draws what you want to you as opposed the the kind of energy you expend... or a visible energy like waves or wind...
Focus is the energy you use when you look to the horizons of your wants and thoughts and needs to bring them close. Into focus. Into your life....
Perhaps focus is your strongest energy. Or perhaps it's the strongest energy in people who get what they need...
Im not sure what I'm going to do with this painting yet. I need paintings for a show in the summer...or I might keep this one... I don't know. I might also sell this one....
This is a 16 x 20 painting I did in the summer 2008.
In the song Tangled up in Blue, Bob Dylan sings:
And when finally the bottom fell out
I became withdrawn,
The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew,
Tangled up in blue.
I don't know what he meant to say when he wrote those words. I've read a lot of interpretations and everyone seems to have their own thoughts... I only know what tangled up in blue means to me....
Depression is like being tangled. Tangled up in a life that's yours but not yours... Day after day laying on the couch watching everyone's life go by you like it was a television show -- aware of it all -- yet unable to move out of your own sweet, sticky now.
I've had both depression and mania.... and depression is blue. And black. Colder than mania. Sucking and sweet in a way. Cold, the way freezing lulls you... Numbs you... Until you want to move and realize you can't... it's too late.
This is a 16 x 20 inch acrylic painting on gallery wrapped canvas. Before I painted I added layers of paper for the wrinkles and kinks (of life). You can especially see this in the close up. The whole thing was painted black first with the blue added on top -- because under the blue of depression is that black hole. That's a given.
I'd like to sell this painting. Please take into consideration that I ship UPS and that costs me about $20 and MAKE ME AN OFFER.
I hemmed and hawed a long time about the whole pricing issue in general about 6 months ago....but the truth is ... and this is the truth....I listen to a lot of Wayne Dyer CD's and his general philosophy is you get back from the Universe what you throw out there... To give is to get back.. to give more is to get back more.
If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others. W. Dyer
I've let galleries price my work and have gotten letters from people who have been priced out... and from their letters I know they were meant to have the work. And so I've done painting for people who could not buy them in galleries...
So I'm putting this painting out there. Make me an offer and if I am able to accept it, I will.
Tracy (me.parler@gmail.com -- put offer in subject line. ... I will list on ebay in a few days if I don't get any offers here)
So my Hawaii thing rears its head again.... I know it's only my experience and in the real world bad things happen in Hawaii but in my life nothing bad every happens in Hawaii ... so given an hour to muse my thoughts frequently default to Hawaii.
I do a lot of blues and greens and aquas... This one was all aqua with just the smallest edge of black.
The gallery wrapped canvas was covered before painting with thick mulberry paper so the surface is nubby all over. The whole canvas was painting back at first and more black shows through that you can see in this photograph.
It's hanging across from my bed so I see it when I wake up everyday and I can remember... Nothing bad happens in Hawaii and it's the first place I see every morning.
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