Back to Work! Six new abstract paintings

So we took our house off the market.  We had several offers, but none of them worked out.  We put so much into this house and we aren't ready to let it go for way below appraisal.  So that is that!  Since I packed up my art studio when we were under contract, I have since unpacked it!

I was commissioned to do six paintings for an office nearby.  They gave me ideas of what they liked and then I created these paintings.  Installation is this weekend!!  I was given a stipend and then the agreement is that I can sell them on my website and Etsy.  If I do, I just replace the sold piece with another.  They were a lot of fun and a learning experience for me!  (ok, I know the names are corny!)

24"x40" "Gentle Reminders" $399.99

24"x40"  "Serene Tidings" $359.99

24"x36" "Reflections of Peace" $329.99

24"x40" "Floral Happiness" $399.99

Or it can be hung this way: (not sure which way I like better)

24"x36" "Golden Alchemy" $349.99

24"x36""Clearing Memories"

Getting Ready for 90-day Challenge and A Squirrel Painting

Ok, this one has been on my mind to do for awhile and it just sort of worked out for me while I was using the intuitive painting process as taught by Flora Bowley.  Check her work out!!  Amazing!

Anyway, here is my "Squirrel on a Diet"! 36"x36" on stretched canvas.  $250 for sale:

Speaking of diets, I'm getting ready to do this 90-challenge at the new gym I joined in August.  Since my car accident in December, I've packed on 15 lbs!! UGH.  So this will get me back on track for sure.  Wish me luck, because it looks like I'm going to be gagging on some crazy weird shake twice a day!

New Intuitive Painting - Garden with Steps

So here is a new painting that I did using the "Intuitive Painting" technique, which several people are teaching right now.  It's basically to just have fun on the canvas and don't get stressed about trying to make something happen.  Just let it flow, layer after layer.   You never know what is going to emerge, but at some point you just want to go with one image or another.  I seem to use a lot of trees... 

 

"Stepping up to the Journey" 

This painting is 36"x36".  It originally started as 38"x38", but I painted it on primed canvas sheeting and then I stapled it to stretcher bars.  

New Dog Painting - Sunny the Golden Retriever

Ok, so we got a contract on our house and we were given 3 weeks to find a house, pack and get out!  Well after I packed my art supplies and the bar area, they canceled because of a family emergency!! So back on the market!  And the house that we put a contract on had to be canceled.  So well, back on the market! 

I managed to get this 11x14 painting done of my friend's dog, Sunny.  He's a sweet golden retreiver:

Sunny DiLeonardo, by Carol Iyer

I have several more intuitive paintings to post that I worked on a couple of months ago.  I used canvas that was on a roll (won't be doing that again!) and so I had to stretch them over bars myself.  Not something I enjoy!  I'll post them next time.  Toodle loo!

Intuitive Painting - "Listen to your Wisdom" An Owl!

Ok, so this really is good therapy and a lot of fun.  And I've been incorporating my doodling that I love so much.  So glad that I took Flora Bowley's e-course.  And I even sold one-- to my physical therapist who has been working on my wonky wrist!!

In between cleaning and showing houses, I finished this one:

"Listen to Your Wisdom"  36"x36"

Please let me know if you are interested.  I'm selling these for $250 each.  Thanks for looking!!

New Paintings Completed - Intuitive Art - Dragonfly and Puggles!

Ok, just to update the WORLD, because I know EVERYONE is wondering (ha), my right hand is moving!!  The bone has healed and I'm in physical therapy three times a week until I can bend it close to normal.  I can write and type, but it's still pretty stiff.  So with my right hand in tact, I completed these paintings in-between house showings.  (House still for sale! UGH):

Puggle Party 36"x36"

Dragonfly Colors 36"x36"

"Sprockets" 36"x36"

Eyes on Spring 36"x36"

All going up for sale in my Etsy store or my website - carolscanvas.com!!

Completed Flora Bowley's Bloom True e-course. Great experience, even with only left hand!

OK, so I managed to get through Flora Bowley's intuitive painting course with only my left hand.  I'm so glad I got over my pity party and pushed through.  I really enjoyed the experience and found that if you really let go, amazing things can happen on the canvas with little effort.   It was definitely more about the process than the end result for me.  It was very therapeutic!

Each day (except Sunday) we were given a little bit of information over a 5 week period.  There were lots of videos of Flora painting, which I found to be very interesting to watch.  There were also general instructions about how to get into the painting "space" as well as how to "let go."  The goal was not to finish a painting until the end, but really even then, she instructed that the final painting may not reveal itself.  It was about learning different ways of applying paint to canvas-- colors, patterns, using stamps, varying marks, etc.  Each session with your painting creates a new layer until at last, you have some interesting shapes and combinations.  Then you add imagery, go bold and add whatever comes to mind, then finally simplify the composition by reducing your color pallet and covering things you don't like or highlighting and enhancing things that you do like.  Sounds complicated, but it's really not so.  Anyone can do this.

I found that I would get stuck when I wasn't in a great frame of mind… but when I was grounded, maybe just back from a walk or meditation,  things simply FLOWED.  So for me it was all about the FLOWING.

30"x30" Swan Reflections

18"x24" Untitled

As you cans see with these two, I got very into the paint drips-- using Golden fluids (which are very expensive!!) and spraying water to allow them to drip. 

I highly recommend this e-course to anyone who likes to paint. I wanted to paint loosely, and now I can!!