Tag: spiritual

After a three and a half week trip to Mallorca in April/May which I will tell you about soon, I returned to an unexpected heatwave in London. It took about a week to decompress from the all the events of the Mallorca trip, but once the heatwave was over and I no longer had to clutch a large bottle of frozen water to stay cool (this works well by the way) and could actually think clearly again, I resumed writing my poems. I don´t think I have told you about my poems actually, so that will have to be another post…Anyway, after about a week of all that, I suddenly felt it was time to find all my paints and brushes and start painting again. I usually feel like painting from around Spring and find myself putting away my paints in Autumn each year and this has been the case now for the past ten years or so.

I started with a small landscape of the Yorkshire Dales that I had sketched and started painting about two years ago, but had never finished. I think the thing I like the most about it, is that it´s the first time I have ever put a horse into one of my paintings. It is a tiny little horse, but a horse nonetheless! It´s also the first time I have added little poppies to the field. You can also see the painting on my youtube channel, @LaChicaconSuerte-1111.

´Muker, Yorkshire Dales´- acrylics on stretched canvas

Once the painting was completed, I thought of offering it for sale on Etsy. I had started a shop on there a few years ago and did have one sale of a replica of a painting I made, which was also of the Yorkshire Dales, though larger than this one (see below), which gave me a bit of confidence to continue. However, life intervened, and so I inactivated the shop for a couple years. However, two weeks ago, I decided to reactivate it!

Ofcourse, as usual, just as I did the last finishing touches to the little painting (above), I suddenly became attached to it and wanted to keep it! In fact, my mother liked it very much and since while painting it, I had already decided to gift it to her, that´s what I did. She then told me she had just been about to offer to buy it from me! Ofcourse I would not let her pay for it, but it´s nice when your own family likes what you do, isn´t it 🙂

My original Yorkshire Dales painting, ´Swaledale, Yorkshire Dales´-

acrylics on stretched canvas

So then I thought, okay, if I am keeping it, then what shall we do? I recalled that I had purchased some very high quality prints of paintings from an artist on Etsy for my niece and nephew a few years ago and that they had been very happy with them. In fact, they still display them in their respective bedrooms. I wondered if I could do the same with my paintings and I discovered that indeed I could! And so…I am now offering prints of my paintings and of my favourite photographs taken mainly in Mallorca and the UK, in my Etsy shop! It´s been quite fun painting daily since then and setting up the shop. Please do let me know which images you like best 🙂

In the past two weeks, after completing the small Yorkshire Dales landscape painting, I´ve also completed another painting that is more of a spiritual nature, incorporating many of the signs I see. In fact, I drew the sketch back in the time of the pandemic, but had only painted the yellow pyramid and had kept the rest unpainted for years. Suddenly, it felt like the right time to complete it and so over the next few days, that´s what I did. You can see this painting , ´Seeing the Signs´ a bit closer up, on my youtube channel.

´Seeing the Signs´– acrylics on stretched canvas

I next picked up a painting I had done called ´Breakfast in Fethiye´of a Turkish breakfast laid out on a table at a home overlooking the blue-green sea. with a view of the mountains across the way. I always felt that I had painted it a bit too lightly and that it need a bit more vivid colour and so I worked on it for a few days and here is the result! Please do let me know what you think. You can also see this painting a little more upclose on youtube.

´Breakfast in Fethiye´– acrylics on stretched canvas

After that, with that feeling of summer approaching, I decided to do a painting of a summer holiday scene at the beach. It´s the first time I have done this type of shimmery waves and was quite happy with the effect. You can see the shimmer much better in the video I have posted on my youtube channel. It was really a bit of experimentation. Actually, all my paintings are experimentations, as I was never trained in art or painting and it´s all a bit of trial and error. Do you draw or paint or do something else creative? I find creating art to be like working and being on holiday at the same time!

´Summer Holiday´– acrylics on stretched canvas

Since then, I have painted three abstracts. They are my first ever abstract paintings. I had never really been into abstract painting before, but I must say…it´s been very interesting! Here are the three paintings. I´m just calling them Abstract #1, Abstract #2, and Abstract #3 for now….please tell me what you see when you look at them. It´s funny…I see different things in them and get a different feeling each time I look at them.

I think with each of them, they can be viewed from any orientation. The first one, I painted in portrait, but flipped on its side, it suddenly looked a lot like a pyramid. I´ll post it here in both and you can let me know which you prefer!

Abstract #1 (portrait)- acrylics on stretched canvas

Abstract #1 (landscape)

Here´s the second abstract I painted. It´s actually the largest canvas I have ever painted on so far (40 x 50 cm). I found I had to lay it flat on a table and actually stand up to paint it, to be able to get it right.

Abstract #2 – acrylics on canvas

My third abstract painting, I actually completed yesterday. I came together in quite a surprising way. I started by drawing a few lines and shapes, and then decided to divide the canvas, and was painting it in portrait, but as I turned it to paint, I realized that I could see a form appearing when I viewed it in landscape and it became something else entirely. What do you see when you look at it?

Abstract #3 -acrylics on stretched canvas

So that´s the round up! Please let me know your thoughts about these paintings and whether you paint or create in some way too and what you like most about doing what you do.

I´m currently working on a new little painting involving burgundy, cacti, and a dark, desert highway…Hope to show it to you soon. Til then, enjoy your day and if you like this post and my blog, please like, share, comment and subscribe!

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