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“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of day, saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage Doesn’t Always Roar, 12”x12” mix media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are black with star details.
“You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.”
George Michael
This body of work is about having the courage to believe in ourselves, to love oneself and listen to our own ‘heart’ when it comes to deciding what the things want in our life. We are not all the same. We are all so dramatically different in so many ways. This is an amazing thing. Just as amazing, however, is that we are all so similar in so many ways. This is to be human. To embrace our differences, our uniqueness and to be comforted by the common bonds we share.
I have always been a dream cultivator. I have always tried to encourage my girls to dream big, to go for everything they want, to be bold, to have courage. To be honest, I think I thought if I told them this stuff enough as they were growing up, they wouldn’t have to go through the same stuff I went through. They would figure everything out so much sooner than me. They wouldn’t doubt themselves, hate themselves, fear life, fear the future, regret the past… overthink themselves into oblivion. That is what I thought. I could spare them all that stuff and they could just jump to being like me when I turned 40 and stopped caring about all the stuff so much. They could just start there. I had done all that hard work FOR them. I could spare them those hardships.
If only.
My girls are all the things I tried so desperately to save them from. They are full of doubt, question their worth, fear the future and occasionally hate themselves … just like I had done. They don’t see how amazing and how talented they are. They don’t see how other people see them.
I am realizing this is to be human too. This is all of us. Even the ones that put on brave faces and airs of being better than everyone, having confidence by the buckets, seemingly living that perfect life. Even them. They are human and to be human is to have self doubts, second guesses and moments of self hatred. I can’t stop them from going through these things and it pains me, like no other pain, to witness their suffering and struggles but I can be there for them. I can listen to their woes. I can cheer them on. I can distract them momentarily (this still works occasionally with teens NOT just toddlers). I can just be there. Always.
Another thing I can do is look after myself. I can show them by example how to self love, have confidence, try new things, face my fears and succeed or even, fail. And ultimately I can paint my way through this time, like I always do. Taking that pain in my world and making it into beautiful reminders for all of us to love ourselves a little more, be tender and kind to ourselves more often. We also have to remember that everyone feels this way sometime or another so we have to extend that kindness to others around us, even the smallest gesture, smile or thumbs up can change soemone’s day.
These paintings, all my paintings really, are love letters to my daughters and ultimately to myself. We all need these reminders and I paint to send this message to my girls and to remind myself of these things.
OOAK stands for ‘One Of A Kind’. I hand embellish all of these mounted fine art repoductions, I hand sign them and hand mount them. These are not mass produced by any means.
The following OOAK fine art reproductions are available in my upcoming online solo auction. If you would like to take part in this fun annual event, follow the link HERE
From The Smallest Seed, Hope Grows
12”x18” OOAK /hand embellished reproduction. The sides are 1.5” deep and are red.
Love Made Visible
12”x18” OOAK/ hand embellished fine art reproduction. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
My Crown, My Feathered Cape and My Red Raven
12”x18” OOAK/ hand embellished fine art reproduction. The sides are 1.5” deep and are red.
My Soul Is A Hidden Orchestra
8”x16” OOAK/ hand embellished fine art reproduction. The sides are 1.5” deep and are red.
Soulmates
12”x16” OOAK/ hand embellished fine art reproduction. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
The Bluebird Carries The Sky On His Back
12”x18” OOAK/ hand embellished fine art reproduction. The sides are 1.5” deep and are red.
The Fortune Hunter
12'“x12” OOAK/ hand embellished fine art reproduction. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
This Girl, She Has Roots
12'“x16” OOAK/ hand embellished fine art reproduction. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red
True Hope Is Swift
12'“x16” OOAK/ hand embellished fine art reproduction. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red
Love Is The Thread
12”x16” mix media/encaustic painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
Pulling On My Heart Strings
16” round mix media painting on wood. The sides are .25” deep and are painted black.
The Night Aviator
12”x16” mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red/turquoise.
I Have Loved The Stars Too Fondly To Be Fearful Of the Night
5.5” x19” mixed media painting on rag paper.
Tulips In Blue Willow
This is a 18”x24” mixed media painting on gold canvas. This painting is 1.25” deep and the sides are gold.
Little Prince
12”x9” mixed media painting on gold canvas. The sides are 1.25” and are painted gold.
Your Thoughts Carry You
12”x12” mixed media painting on gold. The sides are 1.25” deep and are painted gold.
Technicolor Night
14”x27”mix media painting on canvas. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red/turquoise.
Heart Blooms
6.5” x 21” mixed media painting on rag paper.
Lifted By Your Love
16”x20” mixed media painting on gold canvas. The sides are 1.5” deep.
Night Blooms
18”x26” mixed media painting on oval canvas. The sides are .25” deep.
Believe In The Beauty Of Your Dreams
9”x12” mixed media painting on mix media board.
I’LL Be Your Heart’s Guide
11”x14” mixed media painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
Light Your Own Way
18”x23.5” mixed media painting on gold canvas. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted black.
Soul Connection
6”x12” mix media painting on gold canvas. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted gold.
Orange Poppy Slice
3”x36” mixed media/encaustic painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
Red Poppies and Blue Butterflies
8”x36” mixed media/encaustic painting on canvas. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
It takes Courage
20”x24” mix media painting on canvas. The sides are 1.5”deep and are painted red.
This is a 16” round mix media painting on wood. The sides are .25” deep and are painted black. This painting will be in the March 10, 11 and 12 online auction.
― Nadeem Aslam,
mariapacewynters©2020
This mix media painting is on 100% rag paper and will be available in my upcoming online auction with Stephanie Gagos. If you would like to be invited to this event, let me know.
I Have Loved The Stars Too Fondly To Be Fearful Of The Night”
Sarah Williams
A Gentle Heart
This is a 9”x12” mix media painting in gold canvas. The sides are 1.25” deep. This painting is SOLD
"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread" George Herbert
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“Tulips In Blue Willow” is a mixed media painting on canvas. This painting will be available in the upcoming online auction with Stephanie Gagos. More info to come …
Running Among The Stars
This is a 5.5” x 16” mixed media painting on rag paper with a .25” border. This painting needs to be matted and framed by you.
This painting is SOLD
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius
Lovebirds and Flowers
12”x16” mixed media/ encaustic painting on wood. The sides are 1.5” deep and are painted red.
This painting will be available in the upcoming online auction Handmade And Holiday Auction. Stay tuned for more information.
I used this painting to do a short demo of the acrylic paint that Deco Art sent me. I don’t use acrylic paints in tubes very often so this was a little out of my comfort zone. I really do love my acrylic inks but sometime I wonder if they are a bit of a crutch. So maybe this was a nice little push for me to experiment. I did end up reverting back to my inks but I AM a mixed media artist so playing with a variety of mediums within one piece is not unusual. In fact, I ended up adding some encaustics to the final piece (not shown in video) because I felt the painting just need something more. All in all though, I am happy with the results.
So Deco Art sent me my primary colours, Red, blue and yellow, and a tube of black and white. They also sent my an extender, a matt medium and some varnish.
I have to say, I thought the coverage was pretty good. It is really hard to get a yellow to have much coverage at all but this one was not bad, and I loved the actual hue. This goes for the red they sent me too, that was a beautiful colour. Absolutely gorgous red orange.
I also like the way they dried, nice and matt, not shiny.
The acrylic medium was great, as good as liquidtex or Golden, which is what i usually use.
The extender …. nope… I just don’t like extenders I think. I am too impatient. I want stuff to dry faster, not slower. It isn’t anything against this brand, I just don’t think extenders are for me.
The only thing I would say that I didn't like was the tubes of paint are difficult to open and the paint kind of squirted open when you did finally manage to open them. My daughter, Scarlett, had the same problem when she tried them. I often squeeze my paint into jars because I really hate tubes so this remedy this but we did end up wasting paint.
NOOOOO! I HATE WASTING PAINT! HA HA!
This was a nice little push for me to experiment with traditional acrylic paint but I did end up reverting back to my inks half way through. I AM a mixed media artist so playing with a variety of mediums within one piece is not unusual for me, in fact, I ended up adding some encaustics to the final piece (not shown in video) because I felt the painting just need something more. All in all I am happy with how this piece turned out.
AND that is my little review.
Thank you Deco Art!
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