Rooster Reggae Cockeral Chicken Hen Farm Animals

Rooster Reggae

6" by 12" original on canvas with 3/4 inch sides painted

250.

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This piece has been posted before but I thought it made a good companion the rooster I posted last week.  They are shown together below.

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Hope you had a great start to the week!  

Piggy Wiggy

 Piggy Wiggy

6" by 6" original oil on panel

     I just love this pig and so enjoyed painting him!  I had a wonderful weekend with friends.  I consider myself to be incredibly blessed with amazing friends!  On Saturday, my friend, Lena, who is a whiz at organization and staying on task....helped me tackle my studio.  I have shared before that I have gone through things and purged and did my best to organize but I am no match for her skills!  In five hours we had gone through everything, totally refigured my painting area, inventoried all my supplies and even rehung the doors on my closet and put down new area rugs!  I felt like a little kid going into my space today feeling so much lighter and clearer in my head!  I had a smile on my face and gratitude in my heart for my dear friend who has been in my life for over 25 years now.  She does these things because she says she loves to do them but I see it as a true gift of love.

    Next, I spent the day yesterday with my friend, Pat, who I hadn't seen in awhile.  We went to the ocean front and got caught up walking the boardwalk and enjoyed the most incredible weather.  Afterwards, we stopped and visited her parents who have a beautiful garden and they were so kind to share some of their plantings.  I grew up in the city and did not really learn much about gardening but love to spend time in beautiful gardens...especially cottage gardens.  When we left, we had hostas, purple ice plant, and several other ground covers and a tall stalk that looked like a hosta but wasn't.  I was out early this morning planting everything and thinking of more things I would like to add like shasta daisies, lavender, and hydrangeas.  They are some of my favorites.  So maybe this city girl might learn to garden yet!  Claudia, your garden got me inspired to do all of this!  So special thank you to Pat and her Mom and Dad, the Kressels for sharing their garden.  More reasons to be grateful.

    Now while I am feeling so warm and fuzzy, I want to share with you, my subscribers and collectors a SIZZLING SUMMER SALE!  I will be offering 20% off to anyone who is a subscriber to my daily blog posts, newsletter, or has purchased from me in the past! This sale will run for the next two months.  Contact me at normasart@cox.net to receive your discount.  I will be sending out an announcement by email about it too.  I am SO grateful to all of you!!

Have a wonderful Tuesday!

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SOLD All Mine!

SOLD All Mine

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

325.

Have you ever found yourself avoiding something you used to look forward to doing like nothing else in your life?  Well, for about a year now, I have been finding myself wanting to paint less and less and have procrastinated in all kinds of ways, to avoid heading to my studio.  I passed it off as a result of feeling pressured to paint daily and having done it for six years now and also that I needed to spend so much time marketing and doing the other jobs of a full time artist who wears all the hats of the business of making art.  After sharing my angst with friends...endlessly...I have really patient friends, beating myself up, and prayer...I think I have had a bit of a breakthrough.  I took a wonderful workshop last month with Gloria Coker who advised me to start painting from memory the things that were important to me and rely more on intuition and allowing the process to unfold...kinda like life.  When we let go of trying to control outcomes and let things evolve...we can be happily surprised.  It takes faith...that there is a higher power that guides all areas of our life when we let go!  After taking a bike ride today which was also good advice from a friend...not to enter my studio until I had done some sort of exercise, I STILL procrastinated before leaping into painting.  Once I did though I felt like I had taken the lid off my internal pressure cooker!  I painted and time flew.  I cranked up my tunes like Ella Fitzgerald and painted  this cow totally from my imagination and I am sure memory of many cows I have done before but when I finished there was

a much greater sense of accomplishment than I have been feeling in a long time.  Don't get me wrong...I have had enjoyment while painting over the past year but I felt like a child who refused to go to bed and finally falls asleep exhausted.  I would finally get the paint going after so much angst that I would be exhausted after one painting.  Today I completed three and feel great!!!  It might not seem like that big a leap for some people but for someone always worried about doing the right thing...it was big.  The cool part is that it started as a black and white cow and thought I would make the background light and it just sort of led me elsewhere!  Thanks for listening to me ramble.  Hope you had a day full of fun surprises too!

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