PYHAS 2020 SALE
Hello everyone,
I wanted to share this little 30 second video I did of the painting from a lesson I will be teaching in Let’s Face It 2021. If you are interested in any of my online classes, click this link. My solo lesson is selling quickly and there are only a few spots left at the initial discount pice.
My bonus lesson in Lifebook 2021 is coming out soon. People loved my free taster session ( which you can get access to when you purchase this course), so don’t miss out!
I am so excited to be offering my first ever SOLO course online, hosted by the lovely Olga Furman. What to join me for the fun?
Course starts March 8th, 2021, registration is open!
Early Bird SALE $89 (Reg. price $129)
Limited spots available due to individual feedback from instructor via FB group: March 8-April 5, 2021
Course includes THREE (3) PROJECTS!
PLUS a Bonus video
Over 3 HOURS of instruction
Private FB group
UNLIMITED access
DOWNLOADABLE content
Want to find out more?
“Cultivating hope means planting seeds of gratitude on a daily basis”
There will be a 7 day replay of the Taster Sessions starting Friday 11th December. The replay gives a “7 day access pass" from the day you access the replay. It doesn't run between a set of dates, but will be a 7 day replay available to you in which you get a 7 day access from the moment you join. Don’t miss out on this replay, I am still getting messages and seeing paintings from the initial taster session. People have done amazing things with these lesson! It has been huge success and very inspiriting.
Dec 11, make sure you join me and the other Life Book artists for some amazing FREE lessons.
I’d love for you to join up for the year long LIFE BOOK course. I am currently working on the two lessons I will have for you. It is going to be a great, creative and inspiring time! Don’t we all need a bit of that in our lives right now?
GO HERE to join and don’t forget to use the 20% off discount code: FEELHAPPY20
Garden Of Gratitude
This is a 24”x28” mixed media on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red. This painting is available HERE
This is what it could look like in your house
(the amazing panelled wall and couch, not included).
Summer Fireworks
This is a 18” x 48” mixed media painting on canvas. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red. This painting is available HERE
In your house …
A year-long academic course that is devoted to studying portraits and figures.
27+ artists sharing their knowledge and expertise on portraiture and figurative art
Geared toward all levels - beginning, intermediate and advance artists
Focus is on all ages, males and females.
Academic areas of study include but not limited to:
Understanding proportions
Various portrait angles and poses
Composition
Color theory and value
Finding a likeness in your own work
Loosening up in both your dry and wet mediums
so much more!!
FOR MORE INFO click HERE
It has been a strange year and I have struggled to stay positive and keep creating. I really do try to take my worries and hardships and make them into something beautiful but I found that difficult this year. Watching so many people, loved ones and strangers, suffer, was hard to overcome.
The idea of my own personal freedom and the freedom of everyone worldwide had been circling my head for a while so I decided to play with this vision of being trapped or caged. I took that idea and tried to make something beautiful from it. I try to put beauty back into the world every chance I get. I feel this is my superpower. It makes me feel lighter and makes me feel like I have some control over what is happening to me. It is my aspiration that I can help others by giving them hope and inspiration from seeing/feeling something beautiful and joyful in my art.
This too shall pass, we can get through this together.
Best wishes to you all and see you on Monday November 16 HERE,
Maria
Use the coupon code FEELHAPPY20 to get 20% off this year long course and click HERE
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A year-long academic course that is devoted to studying portraits and figures.
27+ artists sharing their knowledge and expertise on portraiture and figurative art
Geared toward all levels - beginning, intermediate and advance artists
Focus is on all ages, males and females.
Academic areas of study include but not limited to:
Understanding proportions
Various portrait angles and poses
Composition
Color theory and value
Finding a likeness in your own work
Loosening up in both your dry and wet mediums
so much more!!
Follow this link to get signed up
https://karabullockart.com/product/lfi21/ref/84/
*All images are copyright by Maria Pace-Wynters 2020.
Hello all you lovelies!
This week has gone by so quickly and Part ONE of The Handmade Holiday Auction is coming up fast! The auction will be running from Nov 12 at 11 AM eastern -Nov 19 at 2 PM eastern. My day will be Monday November 16, so mark your calendars.
Artists in Part One include:
Kecia Frazee Deveney, Judy Hudson, Kate Morgan, Veronika Swanepoel, Olivier, Danielle Mack, Kj Allison, Amber Bryce, Kerri McCabe, Lucy Brydon, Mary Pat Horan Corder, Robert Kelley and ME!
The following paintings will be available for bidding, contact me if you need more info about how to take part. For more info go HERE
To see more painting that will be in this auction, go HERE
Pretty Bird
This is a 18” x24” mix media painting on canvas. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
Afternoon Tea
This is a 8”x16” mix media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
Decorative Girl
This is a 10”x20” mix media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
Hope
9”x12” mixed media painting on gold canvas. The sides are 1.5” deep and are gold.
Truly Free
This is a 16”x20” mixed media painting on gold canvas. The sides are 1.5” deep and are gold.
Backstage Jester
This is a 12”x16” mixed media painting on mix media board.
Poppy Garden Wedge
This is a 16” mix media triangle wood cradle with 1” sides that are painted red.
Use the coupon code FEELHAPPY20 to get 20% off this year long course and click HERE
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A year-long academic course that is devoted to studying portraits and figures.
27+ artists sharing their knowledge and expertise on portraiture and figurative art
Geared toward all levels - beginning, intermediate and advance artists
Focus is on all ages, males and females.
Academic areas of study include but not limited to:
Understanding proportions
Various portrait angles and poses
Composition
Color theory and value
Finding a likeness in your own work
Loosening up in both your dry and wet mediums
so much more!!
Follow this link to get signed up
https://karabullockart.com/product/lfi21/ref/84/
Use the coupon code FEELHAPPY20 to get 20% off this year long course and click HERE
*All images are copyright by Maria Pace-Wynters 2020.
Hello lovelies!
I hope you are all doing well. I have enjoyed seeing all of your paintings from the Lifebook taster sessions. You have blown me away and I appreciate your kind words regarding my lesson. I often feel uncertain about teaching or doing online work shops, fearful that I’m not worthy of the important title of ‘teacher’. I am so grateful to know that I have inspired you, there can be no greater compliment or purpose in life.
In November, I will be taking part in the Handmade Holiday Auction. I have been part of this auction this last few years and I am excited to be able to get to do it again this year. 2020 has been hard for everyone and I have found it hard to get my butt in the studio to paint on a regular basis. What better than a deadline to get motivated? I will be putting up the paintings that I will have in the auction here, on my instagram and on my facebook page. Here are the links so you can participate in this fun event with so many amazing artists.
Brahma Kamal and The Nightingale
This is a 8”x16” mix media painting on wood. This sides are 1.5” deep. Let me know if you’d like to be tagged for this painting.
Dragon Steam and Poppies
This is a 8”x16” mix media painting on wood. The sides re 1.5” deep and are painted red.
Set Me Free
This is a 9”x12” mix media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5”deep.
Pink Carnation
12”x9” mix media painting on mix media board.
Use the coupon code FEELHAPPY20 to get 20% off this year long course and click HERE
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A year-long academic course that is devoted to studying portraits and figures.
27+ artists sharing their knowledge and expertise on portraiture and figurative art
Geared toward all levels - beginning, intermediate and advance artists
Focus is on all ages, males and females.
Academic areas of study include but not limited to:
Understanding proportions
Various portrait angles and poses
Composition
Color theory and value
Finding a likeness in your own work
Loosening up in both your dry and wet mediums
so much more!!
Follow this link to get signed up
https://karabullockart.com/product/lfi21/ref/84/
Use the coupon code FEELHAPPY20 to get 20% off this year long course and click HERE
HOLIDAY AUCTION …
I will be participating in the Handmade Holiday Auction with Stephanie Gagos once again. Stay tuned for more info and more images …
Pink Carnation
9”x12” mix media painting
This year we offered a very special early bird price of $99 to the first 500 sign ups, and all of those spots were completely gone in less than 10 hours! We have added an additional 500 spots, but those are also going quickly! Don't miss out! If you would like to join, hurry quick so you don't miss out on the great offer of $99 (regular price - $149).
Follow this link to get signed up right away at the special, early bird price!
https://karabullockart.com/product/lfi21/ref/84/
Use the coupon code FEELHAPPY20 to get 20% off this year long course and click HERE
Also the free taster sessions have been extended for another week! I have enjoyed seeing all of your amazing paintings over this last week. Thank you so much. I am so glad that you have enjoyed my lesson and I am so amazed that I could inspire such beautiful paintings. My heart is full. Go here to sign up for these free lessons!
You have won a free spot in LFI 2021! YAY!
DO YOU WANT TO TAKE PART? Here is some more information >>>>
LET'S FACE IT is back for it's sixth year and It goes on sale Oct. 12, 2020. The first 500 can purchase this amazing course for just $99, after that, the price will go to $119 until November 30th. Then on January 1st, the course will cost $149.
Bookmark this page: https://karabullockart.com/product/lfi21/ref/84 to join the wait list.
My free taster lesson is up! Don’t miss it… sign up now!
So excited for you guys to do my free taster lesson for Life book 2021… I look forward from hearing from you and seeing what you do! You can join the FACEBOOK group here Don’t miss out on these free lessons!
The painting below is called ‘Faith"‘ and is created in my taster lesson: “PERFECT, NOT PERFECT”
A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT LIFE BOOK 20121:
All taster session content will run through 28th September 2020 to 11th October 2020 after which all taster sessions will POOF disappear unless you join Life Book 2021 which begins on January 1st. If you join Life Book 2021 you get over 80+ mixed media art sessions with a focus on art and wellbeing, a virtual gift bag with free printables/ discount codes/ free classes and more AND you keep life long access to all taster sessions too! This is a crazy good deal. Over 26,000+ people have enjoyed this crazy good deal since Life Book first began in 2012! :) Hope you’ll join us too! If you’re excited, you can already pre-order Life Book now or read more about it here.
I AM SO EXCITED TO BE TEACHING IN LFI2021! I had so much fun teaching last year and enjoyed seeing all of the amazing art that was created. Beyond inspiring. I feel so blessed to be teaching again in 2021 and I am so happy to be able to give away one free spot!
LET'S FACE IT is back for it's sixth year and It goes on sale Oct. 12, 2020. The first 500 can purchase this amazing course for just $99, after that, the price will go to $119 until November 30th. Then on January 1st, the course will cost $149.
Bookmark this page: https://karabullockart.com/product/lfi21/ref/84 to join the wait list.
Subscribe to my newsletter
Comment on this post. (Just say ‘signed up’, to get your name in the draw).
That’s it!
The Winner will be announced on Oct 8TH, 2020.
GOOD LUCK!
A year-long academic course that is devoted to studying portraits and figures.
27+ artists sharing their knowledge and expertise on portraiture and figurative art
Geared toward all levels - beginning, intermediate and advance artists
Focus is on all ages, males and females.
Academic areas of study include but not limited to:
Understanding proportions
Various portrait angles and poses
Composition
Color theory and value
Finding a likeness in your own work
Loosening up in both your dry and wet mediums
so much more!!
FOR MORE INFO click HERE
I am so happy to be part of LIFEBOOK 2021 and I am so excited to be able to offer this free taster lesson.
All taster session content will run through 28th September 2020 to 11th October 2020 after which all taster sessions will POOF disappear unless you join Life Book 2021 which begins on January 1st. If you join Life Book 2021 you get over 80+ mixed media art sessions with a focus on art and wellbeing, a virtual gift bag with free printables/ discount codes/ free classes and more AND you keep life long access to all taster sessions too! This is a crazy good deal. Over 26,000+ people have enjoyed this crazy good deal since Life Book first began in 2012! :) Hope you’ll join us too! If you’re excited, you can already pre-order Life Book now or read more about it here.
DON’T forget to sign ups for the FREE taster sessions with LIFE BOOK!
Sessions start Sept. 28 and go for two weeks!
CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER THE COURSE NOW!
Join me and this amazing group of artists online for some summer auction fun. Let me know if you need an invite or a tag for any of these paintings <3
HERE IS THE SCHEDULE:
August 12th Lara Provost , Xandra O'Neill
August 13 th Larissa West, Robin Wade
August 14th Idania Salcido, Maria Pace Maria Pace-Wynters
August 15th Tiare Smith Woods and Jodi Kincaid, Lucy Brydon
August 16th Jodi Ohl, Jennifer Hammond Yoswa
August 17th Micki Wilde Solo Auction
August 18th Micki's Auction Ends/Wrap Party 530pm EST
August 19th Wrap Party Ends 12pm EST
You can join HERE
The actual show will happen over at Auctions with Stephanie Gagos group.
Please join us HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1118917878158733/
The pop up album will be pinned to the top of the group as an announcement. You can also find it in Announments.
Golden Dreamer
This 12”x12” painting is on a gold wood stretcher. She is available during the Summer Pop up auction. Join HERE
Reflecting
8”x16” mix media painting on wood. This painting will be available HERE
Focus On Your Blessings
6”x12” mix media painting in gold canvas. This painting will be available HERE
The Magical Poppy Tree
9”x12” mix media painting on gold canvas. This painting will be available HERE
Messenger Of The Soul
10”x 20” mix media painting on wood. This painting is available HERE
Here are my girls that are in this auction with Artistic Souls Gallery and here are their stories… GO HERE for more info
The Floral Warrior
Creating beauty in the world is her strength. Her super power. The world can never have too much beauty. She works tirelessly to fill each dark corner with her love, with the lightness from her very soul. She wants to lift the world and everyone in it, so they only see love, they only feel love, they only project love. Let the beauty found in love be a contagion. SOLD
Find Your Way By Moonlight
“A dreamer is one that finds his way by moonlight.”
Oscar Wilde
This girl has found it hard to find her way as of late. She feels lost, she feels purposeless, she has even questioned her dreams. This last while has been hard on everyone. The world has seemed like a dark place this last while. It has made her feel lost and confused but she knows there is always a light shining from above, she knows she is not alone. She can find her way but she knows she has to have faith in the dawn. She can make it through this dark time knowing that. She can find her way by moonlight. SOLD
Look Up
“There’s always a reason to look up”
A.D. Posey
Sometimes she feels so small when she takes her evening walk through the giant flower garden. It is hard to find her way until she remembers to look up and let the stars guide her home.
Night Blooms
She loves to walk among the night blooms, the dampness and sweet aroma in the air. She lets her mind drift to recent times when he was beside her, doubling her happiness, sharing the beauty in that moment. She closes her eyes and imagines him. She can’t help but sigh deeply, knowing that he will be with her again, until then, the night blooms keep him close to her. SOLD
I am so excited to be the guest artist for July 5 and 6 with the amazing group of artists from Artistic Souls Gallery Auction online. The theme is “Telling A Story’, which is very fitting as I always try to tell a story with my paintings. I often ask the girl in my paintings to tell me their story and then I follow their lead. This sometimes takes me places that I hadn’t anticipated. They always have an interesting outlook on the world. I hope you will join me. Let me know if you need an invite or a tag for this event. You can also visit HERE for more info and to browse the beautiful paintings the all of the artists will be putting up for auction.
Find Your Way By Moonlight
5.5”x16” mixed media painting on board. This painting will be available July 5 and 6 online. GO HERE for more info and join this event.
Look up
16”x16” mix media painting on black rag paper. This painting will be available July 5 and 6 online. GO HERE for more info and join this event.
Night Blooms
This is a 16”x26” oval mix media painting on canvas.This painting will be available July 5 and 6 online. GO HERE for more info and join this event.
I am so happy to announce that PYHAS 2020 will be on sale from June 15 until June 22.
The sale price is $119, which is $50 off of regular price ($169), no coupon is required.
Please use this link to take part in this special deal (this is my special link and is how I get paid)
PYHaS2020 IS SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE: FROM THE BEGINNER TO THE EXPERIENCED ARTIST*
♥ 65 LESSONS!
♥ 37 AMAZING ARTIST INSTRUCTORS!
♥ unlimited access with Downloadable Videos and PDFs!
PLUS:
♥ A password protected CLASSROOM on my website
♥ Private FACEBOOK GROUP for students with supportive, friendly and inspiring online Art Community
and much more!
All sales are final, no refund/exchange.
**More of my online classes can be found HERE
Just listed these three little paintings in my Etsy Shop. I am trying to get myself in the studio on a more regular basis … starting off small. So far this week has been good and I am appreciating the good weather. This weekend was so crazy, weather wise but we did paint Imogen’s bedroom so that was good!
Hope you are all doing well. <3
Little Poppy Slice
3”x12” mixed media/encaustic painting in wood. This painting is available HERE
Strongest Ties
6”x8” mixed media/encaustic painting on wood. This painting is available HERE
Black And White Poppy Slice
3”x18” mixed media/ encaustic painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red. This painting is available HERE
“That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul. “
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I have had this picture in my head for ages. I wanted to paint a girl with a pigeon on her head. She isn’t exactly how I had imagined her but, as I should know by now, these paintings really have a mind of their own, I just do what I am told. That is often they way it is, and as an artist it can be frustrating. I often hear people complain that the art they do is not how they imagined it in their head and because of that they feel it is less. Less beautiful, less valid, less successful.
Really, we need to lean into it. Don’t resist the direction your art is taking you. Don’t fight it. Listen, compromise maybe, but there is a reason you are being pushed in a direction you may not have envisioned yourself. Who knows where you will go?
Part of being an artist is listening to our gut…our soul. Making sure we are open to those little bursts of inspiration, happy accidents or an unplanned direction in our studio or on the canvas. These are love messages sent to us by something more in tune and more powerful than ourselves. Don’t close yourself off from such an amazing resource.
Pigeons are messenger birds and I have received the message loud and clear.
I hope you had a great week and have a wonderful weekend,
Love
Maria
Messenger Of The Soul
10”x20” mix media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted Red or Turquoise. This painting will be available in the August Auction POP up, more info to come.
It has been so long since my last post. I have been feeling anxious and have been keeping myself busy (maybe so I don’t have to think about what is happening in the world right now). I have been doing things that I have always wanted to do but always put off for some reason or another. Making churros for May 5th, baking brioche buns, beer bread and donuts out of pizza dough ( we won’t talk about the potato yeast fiasco … I may never get that smell out of my nostrils).
We are eating A LOT but we have also taken up daily morning walks which has really helped our mental health. We have more energy and stamina to face the day as well as feeling much more positive. It feels like we are living in the movie, Groundhog’s Day, which in some ways in a nightmare and in other ways a blessing. Remember, the Bill Murray character learnt a lot of stuff and became a better person because of it.
I have also started writing my daily morning pages again. I have done The Artist’s Way on and off for over 25 years and it really does help to get out all that stuff that is swirling around your head when you first wake up in the morning. It allows you to really focus your day, sort stuff out and really… just clear your head of all the stuff that distracts you from living your best life. It helps you get out of your own way.
In the studio I have been playing with silk screening, embroidery and painting a chair, all things that I have wanted to do for ages but just can never seem to find the time. These new experiments may lead to something new in my art or not, it is fun to try new things and so I am allowing myself to do that. That being said, I am painting as well and finished a new Red Poppy Slice that is super long ( and hard to document) but I love the colour combo in the one.
We have also decided to make a raised veggie garden in the backyard. I am excited at the prospect of actually growing tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce, peppers, garlic, kale and of course herbs galore. Fingers crossed that we actually get some plants to grow! That would be amazing. Regardless, the backyard is looking so much better already.
So, those are some of the things I have been doing to keep myself and my girls distracted. Some days are harder than others and some habits are better than others.
Take care guys and remember: Be Safe, Be Brave, Be Strong, Be Inspired but mostly, Be Kind (to yourself.)
( I found all these messages on our walks, put up by some pretty amazing humans. So I am sharing them with you).
Best,
Maria
Raised Veggie boxes and pea/pee gravel
These are the new planter boxes in the backyard that Chris is currently working on. Rosie likes what she sees.
Painting A Chair
I bought four of these chairs a few years ago and they have sat in the basement. No material to be had so why not paint them? This one will be for my studio desk and Imogen and Scarlett have plans for one each. I think that the bright yellow arms are going to be awesome.
Beer Bread
Who knew? I couldn’t get any yeast and then I discovered this recipe for beer bread. So good and so easy! 3 cups of self raising flour, 1/3 cup of sugar and one 12oz bottle of beer. For the first two, I used Guinness …so good! I brush on a little butter on it at 50 minutes and then put it back in the oven for 5 more minutes. (Otherwise it looks very anemic and not very appetizing.)
