New Painting for auction

Hello everyone!! It’s been a very busy month so far – and I have barely begun to buy for my boys for Christmas! I am usually finished all of that by now but they wont for nothing this year which is wonderful really, but it’s nice to have a little something under the tree, right? 🙂 So where has my busy-ness been? Well, it’s been wonderful being a part of Soul Sister’s United Art Collective on Facebook. The first auction was wonderful and then I decided to just offer up some magnets and the response was better than expected! Plus, I sold prints on the Creative Spirit Marketplace on Facebook too. With all of the printing, magnet-making and packaging it turned into a couple very busy weeks! But oh it feels so good to have people in my life who enjoy my art. It’s the bestest. ❤

I have to laugh at myself these days because I have one idea in mind when I begin a painting and it ends up being completely different. Lately I’ve decided to begin my canvas paintings with a sketch and then paint them in as opposed to painting down a background first. They begin like this:And end up like this:

Quite the transformation! I do like the drawing above quite a bit and think I will try it again, however, I really enjoy the way the piece turned out in the end.

I finished a painting just this past week in preparation for the next Soul Sister’s auction which will be happening the beginning of January. This painting ended up looking nothing at all like I intended yet again. I decided to make a quick drawing on a plain canvas and then paint it all in. This graphite sketch was quick and basic, just to give me a guide to paint by.Which then turned into this:I didn’t take a good look at this pic before I continued this piece and the lighting wasn’t the greatest as the day turned to night so it’s a bit of a blur. As you can see I went from a graphite drawing on canvas to covering it all up and then drawing with a Posca Pen on top of the paint. Oh, that was a bit crazy for me. A little unnerving to draw with permanent marker on top of paint, with no sketch marks to copy over. But I managed and it was a good lesson in faith for me: draw what I see in my mind’s eye and just let it flow out.Under all of the dark blue and purple paint are lighter paint colours. What I do next is rub out the top layers of paint with rubbing alcohol to reveal the colours below. I love it! You can see it in the top portion of the painting. I added more colour and it really began to come alive. However, when I added stars to the sky and the silhouette of the owl, I felt they looked too hastily done or something so I got rid of them. I really loved the birds in flight that I drew in (yet again, in marker) to the top left so to make the eye move around the painting I decided to continue the flight of the birds from the sun to the moon. I felt that they needed to move on, to complete their journey, as we all do. 🙂
And voila! The final piece! I love the gold and silver paint! I haven’t used these before and I really like that way they add an ethereal touch to the piece.

The theme of the next auction is New Beginnings. This piece is called I Am of You. It’s about connection to all beings and how when we travel on to our next ‘life’ we transcend this one and become something new. But a little part of us is left behind in others or for others: our vibrations, our energies. There is more to it but I’ll leave it at that and you can pull from this what you will if you like. We all see things differently depending on our views, our pasts and our beliefs, our emotions and our energies.

Stay tuned for more information as the auction gets close. You can also join Soul Sister’s United Art Collective as the ten of us share our pieces that will be part of the auction. I am so excited! These artists keep me going, moving forward, creating.

Happy creating to you, too! And have a wonderful Holiday Season! Solstice is upon us soon and Yule as well. Enjoy as you will, may you be filled with many blessings.

Moongirl ❤ ❤ ❤