Art I Love

I've always enjoyed the art of Ana Bagayan, even before I became aware of the alien/interdimensional/ancient hidden society phenomena from YouTube.    Ana is a pop surrealist/low brow (cute but not so creepy) artist - and has always included colorful big-eyed characters in her art.   More recently she has become known for her depictions of alien-human encounters.  She became fascinated with the subject matter after noticing that most of the encounters that she read about tell of love, warmth, and spiritual awareness - she found this surprising after viewing mostly frightening depictions in science fiction. I've uploaded some of her artworks below - both pre and post 'alien'.   Below these, you can find a link to her website and a video interview where she tells more about what inspires her art. Learn more about Ana , the inspiration behind her art in this video interview for her show Exit Reality (Jan4 through the 27th 20

Just learned of a painter named Hilma Klint.  It's intriguing to discover a new artist with a unique style that is a woman. It is also an interesting correlation to find that she began experimenting with abstract painting after she experimented with contacting the dead.  For now, I'd like to show you just a few of her pieces and will ask you what decade you think she was born in and why.    No cheating!

Below are some things I have finished from the past and some things I just worked on for fun and experiementation. (Some are not finished just yet) I heard of an art course with teacher/mentors available online that makes use of classic teaching techniques. If you are interested check out: https://www.smarterartschool.com/home.html  The artist teachers are extraordinary artist, like Marc Sheff.   Or, if you love the arts and would like to support my art journey, which I hope will include more formal study, check out the "Ko-fi" link to the right of this blog.  You can donate as little as the amount of a cup of coffee.   It would be much appreciated, put to good use, and increase your positive karma!     Don't forget, I will work for you as well, I am available for commissions.

10/24/2018 Took out a piece of scrap watercolor paper to scribble on last night but it turned into an image I kept and posted.  Only problem is I spent too much time on it yet today.  Perhaps if it had been planned better I would not have had to keep re-doing it.   Lesson learned?  The challenge for #Drawlloween, #mabsdrawlloweenclub today is the #huntersmoon.   Here is my final version: Also, today was a milestone because I finally enabled prints to be made of one of my paintings on Etsy through the website Printful.  I had a few problems because I already had a listing for the image for the original piece and it complicated things to add poster prints, but I finally got it to work, although I had to pay another .20 cents, even though it should not have been considered a new entry. Not a big deal, although at this time of the month I am down to zilch in my bank account until Friday.   I may make prints available for a few more items and upload a few more things to my Etsy

10/23/2018 I finished two paintings for Mab Graves Drawllowen yesterday. #mabsdrawlloweenclub, #drawlloween, It is one of the 'knock-offs' or drawing challenges for the month of October.  The original challenge is #Inktober, created by Jake Parker.   The main purpose of these challenges is to encourage daily drawing (or creating)  Themes for each day are provided.   I have painted daily this month, but not everything I have is good enough to post, in part due to my job having sporadic work days,  Of course, I'm in a learning stage and none of my work is as finished as I hope it will be at some point For the Drawlloween day #28 challenge, (Raven) I created the following (and it could count for day #1 witch, although if I have time I would have like to make something more spectacular or the Witch theme. I could work on the face some more. The inspiration for the face is from a drawing by an instagram artist #_verdigo_       I can't link the Instagram page he

this painting isn't showing up in my mosiac views, so will add here again.  sorry for the repeats.  If you are reading this blog (that would be incredible!)  Please look back two entries to see the most reccent post.   I need help deciding on a background for one of my paintings.  Thanks!!!!

A true "Art Eye Love Post": A painting by John Duncan, the Scottish Symbolist: My little painting, The Faun with Birds was inspired by this painting.   I will soon post more of the lovely artist work.  I am inspired to create much more from his work.   Just love it. I sometimes feel that I was 'born in the wrong age" haha.

WIP for Raven day 28 of Drawlloween. It started as a pre-sketch to learn to practice a face in the style of the artist  #_verdigo_  (on Instagram) and will show her piece once I finish this. After working for a bit of time on the Raven, I have decided to finish it. If anyone has any ideas for the background, please feel free to comment! So far a pumpkin patch, raven family or swirling leaves co

Just a little Dragon :