"NIGHT BLOOM" by Marina Petro

"Night Bloom"
5x7 inches
Original acrylic on masonite
$75
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According to Feng Shui principles, the color red is the color of good fortune. It is the color for confidence, romance,luck, money, protection, and happiness. Sounds good to me!

Daily quotation: "Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
D.H. Lawrence


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"ANGEL BIRTH" by Marina Petro

"Angel Birth"
6x8 Oil on Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas
$100
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I'm happy with the way this painting turned out. I'm thinking about creating a larger version soon.

One the local newspapers in my area just published an article about me and the Daily Painters. I'd emailed them a press release announcing my affiliation with Daily Painters Marketplace and the Painting A Day movement. They were very excited about the concept and decided to publish a feature article instead! I've posted it at my website. It might be a bit blurry but it's the best I could do with scanning it. Here's the link:
"Saratoga Today" Article 4/27/07

Daily Quotation: "Every moment there is news coming out of silence."
-Ranier Maria Rilke

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"ANGEL" by Marina Petro

"Angel"
5x7 inches
Oil Painting on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
$100
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I can never plan an angel painting. They just seem to "happen." Often I'll begin a painting, mess it up, start wiping it out and the figure of an angel appears! Other times they appear are when I begin to paint spontaneously...deliberately keeping my analytical mind in restraint and giving my intuition full reign...

Daily Quotation: "For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone."
-Psalm 91:10-1

"SUN BIRTH" by Marina Petro

"Sun Birth"
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6x8 inches
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
$100

By now you should have a fair picture of the variety of artwork I create...there's much more to come that is radically different than what I've posted so far...if I can figure a way to paint them on these small canvases. Over the years it's been suggested that I choose one
style of painting and stay with it. I can't conceive of doing that. It's not in my nature. I follow my spirit and intuition wherever they may lead.

Daily Quotation: "Intuitive artists are messengers. Their symbolic vocabulary originates from the infinite wisdom of higher spheres, in a non-referential time/space continuum."
-Elle Nicolai


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"SCARECROW GARDEN" by Marina Petro

"Scarecrow Garden"
16x20 inches
Oil on Canvas
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I've been out of town most of today and am just too tired to paint. I painted Scarecrow Garden a couple of years ago. Most people break out into a big smile when they see it! It is one of the rare pieces I'm just not ready to sell yet. Prints are available at eBay. I've bought a few more scarecrows and can't wait for planting season this year.

"Daily Quotation: "The road to enlightenment is long, so bring some snacks and magazines."
-Anonymous


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"SOLAR ANGEL" by Marina Petro

"Solar Angel"
5x7 inches
Acrylic on Gesso Board
$100
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Painting Solar Angel was a new experience for me. It is the first time I've
painted on a board with acrylic. I'm pleased with the outcome. The turquoise background might appear a bit differently on your monitor. It is actually more of a rich teal color but my camera was not cooperating. I've included a framed version to illustrate how it might look framed.

Daily Quotation: "Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."
-Goethe

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"MOONSCAPE" by Marina Petro

"Moonscape"
5x7 inches
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas
$45
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Moonscape is another product of my imagination. The surprise element in painting never ceases to amaze me.

Daily Quotation: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. the other is as though everything is a miracle."
-Albert Einstein


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"JOYFUL GARDEN" by Marina Petro

"Joyful Garden"
5x7 inches
$100
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This little piece was truly a joy to paint. I often struggle with paintings but everything flowed perfectly with Joyful Garden. When I look at it I am reminded of the feeling I experienced as I was painting.

Daily Quotation: When you flow like water, you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work...Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself."
-Eric Maisel




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"PURPLE DELIGHT" by Marina Petro

"Purple Delight"
6x8 inches
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas
$100
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I'm happy with the way this painting turned out. It lifts my spirit.
...a little Feng Shui lesson here....The color Purple in Feng Shui is the spiritual end of the color spectrum. It boosts spiritual awareness and is excellent for physical and mental healing. It is the color of royalty.

The color Green in Feng Shui is refreshing, nurturing and balancing. It is the color of harmony, healing and health;physical, emotional and spiritual. It is good for growth and expansion, peaceful and calming.

Daily Quotation: "The pursuit of art on a regular basis may be the key to healing our minds and bodies."
-Kim Blair

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"COSMIC LIGHT" by Marina Petro

"Cosmic Light"
5x7 inches
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas
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I loved creating this painting. Cosmic landscapes come very naturally to me. Most of the time they just flow forth without any effort at all. I hope you enjoy viewing "Cosmic Light" as much as I did painting it!

Daily Quotation: "Only by intuition can the artist attain the energy of creation and the light of the cosmic presence. Intuition is the creative grace or gift of psychic or immediate knowledge that arises in human consciousness and is transformed in vision and the power of images."
-Serge Ponomarew


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"LAKE VIEW' by Marina Petro

"Lake View"
5x7 inches
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas
$100
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Here is another product of my imagination.
I photograph my paintings as close to the originals as possible but...Lake View gave me a bit of a hard time. It may appear a little darker on your browser and the beautiful soft blues and violets were not cooperating... just couldn't capture them. Lake View invokes a sense of peace and harmony within me.

Daily Quotation: "Nature and meditation have the ability to draw us to our deeper selves, where we finally realize that we are not boring, nor isolated, not in need of external excitement to be happy, but a part of the great harmony of all living things."
-Marney Ward


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"COMET" by Marina Petro

"Comet"
5x7 inches
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas
$75
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I rarely stay home all day...restless spirit.
This was one of those days though. It's been snowing and sleeting here in upstate New York since early this morning. I put some good time in at the easel and I'm happy. "Comet" was very enjoyable to create. Cosmic landscapes are the most natural subjects for me to paint. When I'm quiet and close my eyes...in that darkness...I feel myself out in space among the celestial bodies.

Daily Quotation: "Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.
-Max Beckmann



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"MOON MAGIC" by Marina Petro

"Moon Magic"
Oil On Stretched Gallery Wrap Canvas
5x7 inches
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"Moon Magic" is my impression of the last full moon which inspired this painting. I was driving home, the moon was full and beautifully framed with clouds in the night sky. It was truly magical! I stopped to take a photo of it but, alas, it didn't photograph very well. I'm still not too savvy with camera settings.

Daily Quotation: "Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth."
-Joseph Addison, in the "Spectator"


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"BREAKING THRU" by Marina Petro

"Breaking Thru
Oil On Stretched Gallery Wrap Canvas
4x6 inches
$75
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It's been snowing and sleeting all day here in upstate New York. Bone chilling. I've been shopping...in and out of stores scouting for a new camera and painting all the while in my head...running one idea after another. I've finally given up trying to decide what to paint next and just let the 'spirit' move me.

Daily Quotation: "The light that never was on sea or land, yet which all men see sometime or other"-William Wilfred Campbell


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"Angels Garden" by Marina Petro

"Angels Garden"
Oil On Stretched Gallery Wrap Canvas
5x7 inches
$75
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I love it when angels 'come through' and want to be painted....Can't have too many angels...

Daily Quotation: "If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by your tears, but by your humble resolve, to be always beginning; to be a beginner." - Ranier Maria Rilke

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"Saratoga Bog"

"Saratoga Bog"
Oil On Stretched Gallery Wrap Canvas
Painted on all sides.
5 x 7 inches
$100

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This is the first small landscape I've ever painted. It's going to take some time getting accustomed to painting so small. This piece was painted from a photo I snapped en route to Saratoga Springs, NY. I live in the quiet countryside surrounding Saratoga and trek into the city each day to get my mail, run errands and other fun stuff. Saratoga is famous for it's summer throughbred horse racing, healing springs, and mineral baths. The baths are wonderful...tubs are so deep you can actually float! The mineral water is carbonated...it's like bathing in warm champagne.

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction." -Goethe


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"The Cosmic Guardian"

"The Cosmic Guardian"
Oil On Stretched Gallery Wrap Canvas
Painted on all sides
5 x 7"

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The Cosmic Guardian was painted from my imagination. She is a representation of the great protective, loving presence of the infinite universe.I never know what the next painting will be... not great on planning things. I follow my intuition most of the time. In some ways I am more comfortable painting representational pieces; still life and landscapes from life, but the real adventure is when I begin to paint spontaneously as I did here.
Painting smaller pieces is a challenge. I am accustomed to painting larger with more freedom of movement. We'll see where it goes from here each day.

"For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone." Psalm 91:10-1

"Angel In The Clouds"

"Angel In The Clouds" Sold
Oil On Stretched Gallery Wrap Canvas
5 x 7 inches

After completing this painting... pondering a title...I noticed the image of an angel in the clouds. Do you see it too? This piece is another creation from my imagination. I begin to paint, allowing my intuition to guide me. It is always a new and fresh adventure when I paint in this way.

"Beauty...sometimes takes the form of a white cloud, and goes dancing over the green fields or the deep blue sea, where her misty form, marked out in a momentary darkness, looks like the passing shadow of an angel's wing."
-G.A.Sala, "Beauty of the Universe"