New Art

 New art:

 This is a  24 x 48 oil commission for my son. I had a dream when I was a little girl when I lived in Hawaii. There was a long deep stream coming from the beach back to the interior of the island and in the stream were rare shells , treasures, and  pearls. But I could not go swimming to get riches because of the hammerhead shark swimming in the tidal pool. So this is a strange painting and not sure where it will go!

New Small Paintings Here!

"Morning Light" oil on canvas 6x6x3/4" $75.00
 Click on link below if you would like to purchase this or see other art work of mine!
http://terriwestart.com/workszoom/870659

"Dusk" oil on canvas 6x6x3/4" $75.00

Click on link below if you would like to purchase this or see other art work of mine!

http://terriwestart.com/workszoom/870647/dusk

These two paintings are a square format and are perfect for small spaces  or office cubicles!
My art is evolving to more colorful abstracted landscapes and I love the texture in the trees  in "Morning Light".  Lots of thick paint was used with some knife painting as well.

 The second painting "Dusk"  is very colorful and a contemplative piece for sure. The misty out of focus landscape has spiritual qualities for me.

"Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely."  New Living Translation (©2007)

Don't forget the Sanford Art Walk tomorrow night 6:00PM to 9:00PM. I have 3 paintings in the exhibit at the Historic  Sanford Welcome Center- come on out and say hello- there is some other fabulous work by other artists as well!

Artist Residence Day 2

Can you guess what my series is going to be about? I have dearly loved water gardens ever since I was 8 years old, when my family moved to Hawaii, for my father's new job at the University of Hawaii. There is a Japanese water garden there on campus in Honolulu, that we visited every Friday afternoon to meet my father for dinner in the college cafeteria. Here is a video that I found  of the place-- such memories feeding the Japanese Carp Koi fish :) 

Video of University of Hawaii's Japanese Garden 

When I was a little girl we hand fed these fish and there was at the time water lilies there. I apologize the colors are a bit odd in the beginning of the video. Here is a short clip that is not in stereoscopic :)

short garden video

Of course the artist Monet is probably the most famous for painting waterlily gardens and part of my research for these paintings has included looking up and studying what magic he painted!

Video of Monet Water Lilies at MoMA
Monet Information at the Web Museum
When I owned a house with a pool I had big daydreams of converting it into a giant waterlily garden yet somehow still being able to swim in it LOL!
 I invite you to sign up over there on the right side of my blog if you want to keep up with this series. Maybe you know something about making  and maintaining these wonderful gardens... I understand they are a lot of work!

My Own Artist In Residence

      My friend and mentor Linda Blondheim has a blog  where she writes about her Artists in Residence Project. She is lucky to have the freedom and the "where with all" to be able to do this project and I enjoy her posts on the places she has been and the paintings she has completed.
   I have so many distractions that I sometimes put these above my art business and painting. This is a discipline that I have decided to attack and embrace as one of my goals this year.

     My artist in residence will be in my own studio. I am declaring it to start Monday February 20, 2012 and end Friday February 24, 2012. I am going to treat this time as if I am in residence or on a week long workshop.
 My goals are:

1. I will  be in my studio or outside at a place in the Orlando area painting everyday 9AM-5PM.
2. I will NOT be using the computer or my smart phone to cruise the internet or post etc... until after 5PM.
3. I will not have the TV on from 9-5PM.
4. I will start a series of new paintings and finish them -goal 5 new paintings
5. I will post on my blog Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, in the evening- the updates to my endeavors

  Between now and  Monday AM I will be in the planing stages: selecting and getting photographs to work from, deciding on compositions, drawing,  Notan , selecting the color palette I will be using, doing a few color charts and preparing the canvases.

I am going to treat this time as if I paid over a thousand dollars for a workshop and therefore nothing else is more important! (barring real emergencies) :) 

Wish me luck! 

Terri