Abstract 18 Letting Go

Letting go is a freeing kind of experience. The same as letting go of a string that holds a helium balloon. Letting go and watching the wind carry off the thing you were holding on to is pleasant and freeing. The red cross at the center and the strokes of white like wind or movement. The light radiating out. hatches .. dots .. strokes ..are beautiful. In some ways it is releasing light.  Love and light ..

This painting is about 12 x 14. Acrylic on wood panel.. If you would love to have this hanging in your house .. please email me at www.iwilldream4ever@aol. com

Thanks for stopping over .. and I always love to read your comments. :)

The Spiral of My Life Abstract #17

It's never for sure what I am going to be led to paint but that is the plan of what I'm doing. Maybe the painting will speak to me and tell me what's up. Kind of like interpreting a dream. I did some printmaking images back while I was newly separated from my spouse of many years and a man that came into the college saw several of my pieces hanging on the walls and he was a potential client when graphic design was my focus. I was showing him some of my work just to give him an idea of how my mind works. He was about to start a dating/matchmaking service. I will always remember that he looked at my art and said .. oh .. you have issues. I just laughed. I didn't do any work for him. I probably had too much "stuff/baggage" that may have influenced the design he wanted .. it still makes me laugh. Hopefully, my work today is a little less obvious. I'm still working out how to create emotionally charged work with out being literal. And does it even matter? I see lots of movement and again intensity. but this one I love to look at. Makes me feel like I'm going somewhere. I was listening to one of the grammy winning artists today that I heard talk about his acceptance speeches and just the fact that he won. He thanked the woman that broke his heart because it lead to a profoundly beautiful song and so many wonderfully good and happy things have happened because of that .. and it got him a grammy. He was happy. Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone could have or see these things that happen in their lives and you could follow the difficult paths of life to beauty and joy and wonderful happiness. If we can just cope long enough.. if we can just get to that pivot point where life turns toward goodness and acceptance. It could be a spiral into life .. or on top of life .. into new spaces new experiences I don't want to miss any of it. I am holding out for the next adventure and I am going to paint my way into it.

Thanks for stopping over and having a peek at today's painting.. contact me if you are interested in owning it. Write to me at iwilldream4ever@aol.com. This is about 15 x 15 acrylic on wood panel. Ciao.

Number 16 and the title is The Intensity of Shared Memories

This painting I decided to do what I mentioned in the previous post. I decided to just let the spirit move me and go with whatever comes out. I was considering the conversations I had with my son while I stayed with him. There were some exchanges that were difficult. We had some serious conversations. I do believe that as we change in life we can hear something we have heard many times and it will mean something different at some point. I don't think it's a for sure thing just a sometime thing. No matter what I remember and felt about things of long ago it will never change my sons memory and feelings about those same events. He was able to be aware of things he was holding on too and this was interesting to witness. I couldn't stop thinking about shared memories. People see and experience one event and have different results or feelings or outcomes. This is what I considered while painting. I am drawn to the contrast of color and how intense the lime green looks next to the red. The dots of color are strong and they feel more intense against a darker background. Opposing colors that look as intense as those shared memories. They scream to be noticed. The dots of different colors compete with each other. This painting feels loud with bright colors. I like looking at it but maybe it's like being in a room with loud noise, you can only take so much. Life has it's moments of intensity, that's the idea. Taking a walk down memory lane can be like an explosion of color. It certainly is a big pop of color which we can all use from time to time or tolerate or like or maybe in just the right places or once in a while. It certainly makes for a colorful life. It certainly made a colorful painting.

Thanks for coming over to read about my work. I think I like one of the comments in my last post that there are no 100 day's police that will come and cart me off to daily painting prison haha.. but it's a plan and if I give myself too much leeway I might put too much time in between. For now I'm going to relax a bit and do 100 paintings. This is number 16 and if you would be interested in owning this one please contact me at iwilldream4ever@aol.com. The price is $116 and it is larger then most of the others. Roughly 16 x 18 on a wood panel. Thanks again .. have a great day.

Resuming 100 days of painting abstracts

I did the grow your blog post and attempted to add follower's to my blog. And then life happened and I had to take a break to drive to my old hometown. I was gone for more than a week and I got to spend some time with my grandchildren. The prospect of taking painting supplies and keeping myself trained on this current series was just not feasible so I gave myself permission to take a break. If you would still like to join my blog just leave me a note and I will include you in my give away which are one of the three illustrations at the top of my previous post. You don't have to follow me to be included in the giveaway but I'd sure love it if you did. So back to abstracts .. I have been bouncing around trying different things to create the work that I am doing in this series. I am still drawn to the reds and yellows so I may stay with that for a while. This painting is a rectangle about the size of 8 x 15. It is on a wood panel. I have decided to paint abstract about things that are happening in my life. I have been through some difficulties in life just as everyone else. Some are worse than others, I have to deal with how my decisions in life have affected my children. I'm am grateful for time which has a way of lessening the impact of hearing and realizing things about the people that I love the most. I'll also paint about this feeling of loss. I know it is loss .. not sure it will be evoked in the works but either way it will be the catalyst. Maybe it will move me into more joy. That is not my intent it is my way of giving the work a focus. It is after all, my experiment. Thanks for stopping over and as always .. I love to hear your thoughts about the work .. I will call this painting.. Cross My Heart. If you would like to own this painting please email me at iwilldream4ever@aol.com. Have a fantastic day!!!

Grow your own BLOG Party!!!

I have to say that I am so excited to be doing this party with Victoria. I first read her blog several years ago when I noticed that several of my online friends were going to her blog. Then last summer I started a painting project so that I could start creating more work and basically to get into the practice of painting daily. Also I had a lot of grief to process due to the recent death of my mother. That's what gave me the time to spend searching and reading blogs and when I discovered her generosity and kindness I was swept away with all that she does and her amazing supportive nature to people in the remotest locations of the world.

Ok I am Tammy, artist, designer, writer, blogger, friend, mother, grandmother, sister and daughter. :)

Why did I start blogging? I started blogging to give my self a platform for dealing with life ... a kind of visual and textural journal so to speak about what is happening in my life and some images of my work .. and some of my process. I started blogging in 2010 about three months after I was laid off from my job. I have had a few years where I only posted five times in the whole year. And last year I had the most. Doing 100 faces in 100 days means at least I had for sure 100 posts. I would love to have more of an exchange with people about the creative process and I always love sharing my work or talking about it. I don't know what the future will hold but I know that I will continue with blogging.

I am going to have a give away for anyone that would like to join in the fun there are no requirements for winning just leave me a comment that you want to be a part of the giveaway and on the date in Feb.15th I will put everyone that wants too on a slip of paper and pick one lucky winner from a hat and they will get their pick of one print from one of these three images that I have here. All were done digitally but you will receive a paper print approx 8x11.
Thanks for coming over and I'm excited to get this party started!!! Cheers!!!After reading some of the other blog posts about the party I decided to add some photos of some of my work instead of making you look back through all my posts to see them.. I will try to add photos of the work chronologically with what I have posted over the years to give you an idea of the varied interests that I have. Thanks for coming again .. and have a fabulous party!!!