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Monday, May 09, 2011

Taking A Bow!

8" by 8" original oil on panel

225.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

a return to love - marianne williamson

I love this quote every time I read it. I thought it appropriate with the name of todays painting!
So take a bow! Let yourself shine and share that light within you! Have a wonderful day....thank you
for stopping by! :-) Please contact me at normasart@cox.net if you have any questions about this or
any of my other paintings!

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Friday, May 06, 2011

Seeing Colors

Seeing Colors
11" by 14"

$325.

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There is no doubt that the two things that draw me to a subject is the way the light is hitting it and the colors I see reflected. I remember when my first art teacher began to describe the colors that were on
an apple that I was painting and she began naming every color in the rainbow...I responded that I only
saw red! It took awhile but soon I began to see colors! When I would close my eyes at night...I was seeing colors. It was like a part of my brain woke up and it was pretty exciting. I think it a matter of
focus and if you have a black dog or white shirt and you get in different lighting you will see all the colors that are reflected in light and in shadows. I LOVE color and so I try to exaggerate the colors I
see and have so much fun doing it. Today I was at Harbor's edge with my class and did a demonstration using two palette knives and one brush for just the eyes. I have painted this cow before but in a different format and using all brush work. Sometimes it is fun to revisit a subject and change
things up. Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Not sure yet if I will post tomorrow but if I don't,
have a wonderful Mother's Day!

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Valentia Irish Cow

11" by 14" on wrap around canvas

350.

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My friend and fellow artist, Barbara Mastaglio, lives in one of the most beautiful places on the planet about half the year. She and her husband have a home on Valentia Island off the coast of Kerry in Ireland. I began my journey of cow painting about five years ago when I did an artists workshop over there and it was wonderful. The instructor was Charles Kello and we had a blast. A few weeks ago I asked if she had any cow photos I might have for inspiration and this cow was in the one she gave me. I swear I know this cow from my trip over there! What a beautiful and open face with such a soulful gaze. After my workshop my weekend, I was anxious to use the approach we were taught. I first began with a loose rendering in a large sketchbook. I used only burnt sienna and white and worked out the values. It was so much fun! I also played with some other images before getting to work on canvas. I think this will be my new routine. I began this cow working from the inside out instead of drawing it in paying attention to shapes of dark and light and working the background at the same time. I am REALLY pleased with the result and felt some of the initial excitement of those early days of painting cows. Some times a new approach is just the ticket to shake things up a bit. I am looking forward to another one! I will also be getting ready tomorrow for my display on Wednesday of birds at the Virginia Garden Show Tour held at the Cavalier Golf and Yacht Club in Virginia Beach. Hope you will come out and see me! Please email me if you have any questions about my work or anything else!
Study that helped me loosen up and work out values....

Painting from my workshop that encouraged loosening up!......

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Eastern Mountain Blue bird

6" by 6" original oil on panel

$125.

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I loved the expression on this little bluebird and enjoyed working on his fluffy little body. I have also been loving working the background using the palette knife as it seems to suggest the texture of nature surrounding these little creatures!

What an awesome weekend so far, with a workshop yesterday with an artist whose work I have admired for years, Gloria Coker! We all met at London Square Gallery and got set up. She began with a demonstration in a large sketchbook using black india ink and white paint. After working out

the compostion and values she then had us begin doing the same with the image we brought to inspire us. Mine were a red pair of shoes. I will share some of these photos tomorrow. Scott London took pictures and has not uploaded the afternoon session yet. Anyway, then she did a demo using color of a pair of dancers. Anyone who knows her work is familiar with her wonderful colorful dancers who seem to dance across the canvas! I love how loose her work is and the way it leaves the viewer to use their imagination to fill in and interpret the story. I hope to be using the techniques I learned this week and will share more of those images with you! Hope you have had a fantastic weekend and survived the storms yesterday. We mostly had rain and lots of wind in my neighborhood but I know it was rough in other areas. Thanks so much for checking in with me!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Angus Commission SOLD

16" by 16" original oil on gallery wrap canvas

SOLD

Wow....another week that is speeding by! I have been really busy working on some marketing after another incredible session with Leslie Saeta. She offers two hour phone consultations after spending hours going through your goals, blog, and web site and give great feedback and suggestions. I highly recommend her! She is not only a wonderful artist, radio host, and workshop teacher....but is a marketing whiz! One thing I have been doing is finding all my old Like it buttons that I had on my posts that were not set up correctly. They are supposed to start over with each new post and mine just kept adding up from one post to the other...can't replace it until I find all the old ones. Not such an easy task with a zillion blog posts that have been cut and pasted to two other blogs in addition to this one.
I will be taking tomorrow off from painting and marketing to deliver about forty paintings to Gallery 5800
up in Richmond. They will be having their biggest show this month and the opening is Friday night starting at 5:50 and goes to 8:30. I am excited to have a whole wall to myself for this show. If you live nearby, I hope
you will stop in to see the show!
Next week, I will be focusing on works for the Virginia Beach Garden Tour. I will put more about these events in my event section. I would love to have suggestions for some birds to paint. I hope you have a great Thursday!

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Monday, March 07, 2011

Rollikin Rooster Ray

Rollikin Rooster Ray!

$295

12" by 12" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

I really had a blast working on this rooster today. I got into my studio before lunch with a board toned with hot pink and got started. I was inspired to do this piece by a photo my nephew sent me who is living in Japan. He took the picture near the city of Nara in central Japan, in a town called Tenri, along a hiking path called "yama no be no michi" which means "side of the mountains path". They say its the oldest hiking trail in Japan. The rooster lives at a temple called Isonokami Shrine, which is dedicated to the sword of the legendary first emperor if Japan. I thought it was beautiful and would make a nice painting. I am really pleased with how it turned out. I have been doing my last few paintings on this museum board and really like how the paint moves around on it! It can be easily framed, or displayed on an easel which I will be posting tomorrow when they arrive! Each of my small paintings will come with its own display easel! If you purchase this piece today, it will be included. :-) If you have any questions, please email me at normasart@cox.net.

I am also working on challenge # 135 which is to Paint Reflections On The Surface Of Glass, from Carole Katchen's book....200 Great Painting Ideas For Artists. I haven't done one in while cause I had a bunch of other ideas of my own but I should be able to post this one in the next couple of days. I'd like to see and post other artist's paintings who do this challenge with me!

I am working on my newsletter for March and will be drawing a name from my subscriber list for

February's painting giveaway. I will do this each month so if you have not subscribed, please do so

by entering your email in the box up on the right side of my blog. Have a wonderful Tuesday!

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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Black Angus

SOLD

Black Angus
$125

6" by 6" original oil on archival board

How was your weekend? I worked quite a bit but did manage to take in a movie and had dinner with a friend. . I also got out on my bike after a long hiatus. The tires were kind of flat and I couldn't find my bicycle pump! I spent oodles of hours working on my web sites Only a couple more links and pages and I will start work on my newsletter as it is almost March! My kitty is in my lap again and insists on laying on my arm while I am typing. I really had a good time working on this Angus. It is so much fun to play with colors on the
dark fur. I guess a cow's hair could be called fur... I tried something different than my usual toning the canvas with red. I began with a hot pink color and then accented the same! I like how the bits of pink shows through in places. It will be a busy week getting ready for the upcoming show at the Artists Gallery... It's Raining Cats and Dogs. I will be entering several pieces and the opening is this Friday. Hope you can make it if you live locally. Have a great Monday!

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Common Yellow Throat

6" by 6" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

$125

Well, the weather this weekend was spectacular and I saw bulbs sprouting in the neighbors yard. Spring is right around the corner. My kitty cat, Rusty, is sitting in my lap as I type. She is doing so much better. I spent quite a bit of time on the computer this weekend making changes to my web site and blog. I welcome any feedback. Hope you have a great start to your week! Thanks for checking in.

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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Norma Wilson Original Oil Cow Art

Irish Valentine SOLD

$295

12" by 12" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

Love these big beautiful Irish cows that I first fell for as a child and was reintroduced to at a workshop in Valentia Ireland run by my good friend, Barbara Lively Mastaglio. She owns a beautiful house there and you can see these beauties grazing in her back yard overlooking the ocean. That trip began my love affair with painting cows! Thought this one represented the upcoming holiday!

Tomorrow night I will be attending the show at the Artists Gallery, One Foot Square. If you live in the area, please stop in!

I had a great day in my studio today working on a pet portrait commission and listening to Artists Helping Artists blog talk radio with Leslie Saeta and Dreama Tolle Perry. One was on organization for us creative souls....an elusive concept for some of us...and goal setting for 2011. I highly recommend listening to their programs!

For purchase information, contact me at normasart@cox.net! Have a fabulous weekend!

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Sunday's Calf

$125

6" by 6" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted

I was drawn to paint this calf because of her sweet face and the cutest little snout. I bet that's not

what you call it on a cow...if anyone knows the correct term...please let me know. Anyway, I surrounded her with a grayed down cerrulean blue and thought she looked very pretty. Hope you are having a fabulous weekend! I am excited to be going to Claudia Finn's Studio today. Art Space is having an open house and I will be there with some new pieces! Hope to see you there if you live in the area! Contact me at normasart@cox.net for more information on this or any of my other paintings!

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Cows, Monkeys, and Taxes.....

Ever had a monkey on your back and feared this monkey had been on your back so long and was so dug into you...that you might never find a way to again walk tall and monkey free??? Well, as I have shared, I have made great strides removing a couple of persistent monkeys from my shoulders....they are very broad and felt a bit lighter for awhile but I am not free yet!!! This task is little when you actually deal with it on a regular basis. It is my sales and use tax for the biz. I was going to do my next painting challenge today but decided that extreme measures were necessary...I would have to work through the day and night if necessary to get on top of this monkey and pry it free once and for all. It has involved several chats with online operators and a fax with my amended mistakes, etc but I will prevail!!! I will no longer buy my own $%$# that says that I can't figure out this stuff.
I am excited to share this painting with you...one of my favorite subjects!
Hope your day has been monkey free or at least that you are getting the upper hand in your monkey war! Maybe I should think about painting a monkey....

24" by 30" on gallery wrap canvas with 1and a half inch sides.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Rooster In Range

Rooster In Range
$175

6" by 12" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

I had an awesome day yesterday painting with a friend and then teaching at Harbor's Edge. We had a full room with lots of creative projects going at once so it was really fun. I worked on a new large piece in the morning that I will show at a later date. Hope you have a really relaxing and enjoyable weekend! I AM

going to tackle reorganizing my studio. I may get brave and do a before and after picture. To say it has

gotten out of hand and full of stuff these past years is quite an understatement. I have been feeling weighed down by all of it and it is time to purge! Take care and thanks for stopping by!
E-mail me at normasart@cox.net with purchase questions about this painting or any of my other works!

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

My Favorite Little Bird

6" by 6" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

I never tire of painting this little English Robin. They are just too cute! Today I had a busy day of errands, time in the studio and teaching. It seemed only right to end up my day finishing up this little bird to post. I have decided how to handle my challenges for the New Year. I will continue to do portraits as they come to me and depending on how many, I may post them on another blog which I will list when I do. Tomorrow I plan to embark on a 200 painting challenge that was inspired by a book called 200 Great Painting Ideas For Artists by Carole Katchen. I have had it for quite some time and use if often to inspire students on their next painting but I realized it would be a great way for me to stretch and take myself out of my comfort zone. If you would like to follow along with me and try some of the challenges on your own, that would be awesome! Tomorrow's challenge is to paint boring objects from around the house....not the most exciting one to start with but it is the first and it will make me STRETCH! I will not be doing this for 200 days straight and will more than likely throw in the occasional cow, rooster. and

bird! I have always wanted to try some different styles and mediums so it should be very exciting....like going through a great recipe book and making some of the dishes that you wouldn't normally try or perhaps are not the dishes you are most skilled at preparing. The result, hopefully, will make me a better cook...I mean artist! Cooking may be a lost cause. Contact me at normasart@cox.net for more information on this or any of my other paintings. If you decide to do the challenge on any day and want to share your painting, let me know!

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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Year Of The Rabbitt SOLD

Year Of The Rabbit SOLD

9" by 12" original oil on wrap around canvas with side painted.

The rabbit has represented hope of the Chinese people for a long time. It is tender and lovely. The moon goddess Chang'e in Chinese legend had a rabbit as her pet, which stimulated the thought that only the rabbit was amiable enough to match her noble beauty. The Chinese character 'Tu' (rabbit) is part of 'Yi' (escape or leisure) indicating speed and distance. The Han people have a custom that a pregnant woman is not allowed to eat rabbit meat for fear that the child will be born with a harelip. The newborn is given paintings of children and rabbits representing that the child will have a peaceful and happy life.

I loved that the rabbit is a symbol of hope! We all need to have hope and to be reminded that there is always hope where there is life! The new year is a great time to be reminded of this and to focus on being kind to ourselves each day. Thanks for checking in with me and for all your wonderful comments.
For more information on this or any of my other paintings, please contact me at normasart@cox.net.

Sunday, January 02, 2011

Red Headed Tanager

6" by 6" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

Hope you have had a wonderful New Year weekend so far. I am back in my studio getting started on

some new pieces and finished this one up and decided to do a late in the day posting. I love the red tanager birds and this is a different tanager sporting only a red head

For my artist followers I discovered a new book keeping site that is free for thirty days and a small monthly amount after wards. It is called Outright. It is very

intuitive and so far seems very simple to use. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Yesterday I spent time at Claudia Finn's Studio at Pembroke Mall and really love her new work! If you near Virginia Beach, stop in and see her. She has some new angel paintings done with palette knife and my favorite of trees in her back yard. Wonderful colors!

Thanks so much for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the weekend! For more information on this piece or any of my other painting, please contact me at normasart@cox.net .

Thursday, December 30, 2010

SOLD

Rooster On Parade

11" by 14" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

In dreams, the Rooster is considered a time-keeper and is a sign of time passing in our lives. Hearing a Rooster's voice in our dreams may indicate we need a wake-up call, and need to pay attention to some circumstances in our lives. Seeing a brilliantly plumed Rooster in our dreams indicates it is time to let others discover our true selves, and strut our stuff (show our talents) to others.

I thought this was an appropriate symbol as we are on the verge of another year's

passage. For many it is a time to look back at what has transpired in the previous year and also to set new goals or perhaps dust off some old goals and begin anew putting our best foot forward! Hope you have a safe and Happy New Year!

Monday, December 13, 2010

Pig Pal

$125

SOLD

6" by 6" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

Today was a snowy day here in Chesapeake and it was the perfect day to be in my studio painting
all day. I worked on three pieces and this was the second one I completed. I loved his expression and
all the colors I saw in his fur. Pigs have such small eyes in proportion to their bodies but seem to be so
say so much with them! Hope you enjoy this little guy. For more information on purchasing this piece or
any of my other paintings, please contact me at normasart@cox.net. You can also purchase a gift certificate by clicking on the button on the side of my blog. It will take you to a page that gives you options for amounts and how to pay for them. Thank you!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Bearly Scarey!

Bearly Scarey

20" by 20" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

For more information on this piece, please contact me at normasart@cox.net.

Saturday, November 06, 2010

Bird On A Perch

Bird On A Perch

6" by 6" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted.

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Friday, November 05, 2010

Ain't Nothin' But A Hound Dog!

5" by 7" original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted

SOLD

There's something about a houd dog that just makes you want to smile and kick back a bit. They don't seem get all worked up about much and expend too much energy! :-) I like painting them! Hope you week has been a good week with lots of good memories, laughs and time spent not getting too worked up about things...if not, there's always the weekend! Yeah! For more information on this fella who is looking for a new home and a place on your wall to make you smile....contact me at normasart@cox.net!