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!! 

Finished another Intuitive painting- "Water World"

I guess my paintings are showing the chaos that is my life right now.  We are getting ready to list our house for sale. It is bittersweet -- a touch sad and a touch exciting.  Not sure where we are going to go yet, but downsizing is a MUST as we send my youngest daughter off to college this summer.  Thinking of Florida… do you think the magical seaside water world is coming out in my latest intuitive painting??

30"x30" "Water World" 

Busy days ahead…. 

New Intuitive Painting with Bear

Ok, so here is the first painting that I finished (I think) during the Brave Intuitive e-course with Flora Bowley. Check out her work-- its's amazing!

This painting is very busy because I wanted to keep so many different areas of this painting.  The multiple layers created lots of cool designs.  I also didn't commit to a color scheme, so just went with a bunch of different colors!  So I'm hoping my style will simplify a bit as I practice more and more.  It's mostly about the process for me-- I can't begin to describe how great it feels to paint like this. I just get so into a "zone".  It's very therapeutic--even with just my wrong hand! LOL

AND.. I didn't even care that I couldn't use my right hand until the final touches.  It just took me a little longer and I had less control over the paintbrush with my left hand.

Speaking of --I've been in this wrapped splint thing for my right broken wrist now for 3 weeks.  I go back on Tuesday and get a short arm cast. The current fiberglass thing on me goes past my elbow so I can't straighten my arm.  I can, however, use my fingers a bit for typing. Can't really hold onto anything yet, like a pen or paintbrush.  Can't shave my left pit, hook my bra or put my hair into a pony tail. Life goes on…

Taken with my camera phone because I still can't hold the real camera  30"x30"

I skipped taking some pics of a few layers, but u get the gist! Ok, off to work on another one!!